Jillian Weinberger

New York's attorney general has released an investigation into online ticket brokers, an industry he describes as a "fixed game."

Without peace talks, Secretary of State John Kerry says the fighting will continue until "every semblance of civilization is destroyed."

College admissions officers from 83 universities, including the Ivy League, plan to change their admissions process to attract and admit a more diverse student body. 

The air conditioner has become a key tool in the preservation of art and artifacts, and it also changed American politics and geography.

Three years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that life sentences for those under 18 were unconstitutional. Today, the court said that ruling also applies retroactively.

Companies like Foursquare, FitBit and even Twitter have seen their share prices tumble.

The U.S. has taken just .06 percent of the 4.5 million refugees displaced by the conflict in Syria. Why have so few made it to the U.S. and what happens to them when they arrive?

In his final State of the Union address, President Obama announced a new cancer research initiative to be led by Vice President Biden. Is America up to the task?

The price of crude oil has hit a 12-year low. But plummeting oil prices affect precarious governments that are dependent on energy revenues.

The art of con men, and of confidence men that came before them, is rooted in belief, which is why it's so important to human history, one author says. 

Reporter Dawn Anahid MacKeen retraces her Armenian grandfather's forced migration from Turkey to Syria in "The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey."

As the New Hampshire primary approaches, local voters want to know how the presidential candidates will tackle the opiate epidemic.

"Academpark" is a hub of innovation and open-mindedness hidden deep in a Siberian forest, originally created in the Soviet era, but now seeing a revival. 

A Nevada-based militia group led by Ammon Bundy has occupied a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon to protest the Bureau of Land Management.

Derek Eland will try to capture the essence of Mount Everest when he becomes artist-in-residence there later this year. 

A new study finds that more than 90 percent of those who overdose on opioids are given new prescriptions for the drugs that nearly killed them.

A new investigation finds that the wealthiest Americans have fought for—and largely won—a two-tiered tax system, complete with loopholes that benefit the one percent.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance says cell phone and app encryption impedes law enforcement officials' ability to investigate and prosecute crime.

The various branches of the military have until January 1, 2016 to submit their plans on integrating women into combat roles. 

As news breaks that six U.S. soldiers were killed in a suicide attack, a new investigation from ProPublica finds that the U.S. has wasted $17 billion in Afghanistan since 2009.