Todd Zwillich

The epicenter of the 7.5 magnitude earthquake was about 160 miles northeast of Kabul, Afghanistan but has been felt as far away as New Delhi, India.

This weekend, President Obama announced a new initiative to reduce the amount of time schools spend on standardized testing. 

Dubbed the Donald Trump of Guatemala, comedian Jimmy Morales has no political experience.

On Wednesday in the Rose Garden, V.P. Biden announced that he would not enter the race for 2016. Nearby on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are considering Rep. Paul Ryan for House speaker.

In a surprise twist, Rep. Kevin McCarthy abruptly dropped out of the race for speaker of the House of Representatives on Thursday.

With a big budget deal in the works between President Obama and congressional leaders, Congress has a chance to change the ban on CDC research into gun related health issues.

Another mass shooting occurred on Thursday, this time in Roseburg, Oregon at Umpqua Community College, about 180 miles south of Portland.

Bert Ulrich, multimedia liaison for film and TV Collaborations at NASA, explains what NASA did for "The Martian," and what "The Martian" could do for NASA.

When Texas passed sweeping reforms to their criminal justice system, three prisons were closed and violent crime went down. Now Congress is following their example. 

On day three of Russia's airstrikes in Syria, we look at the chasm between how the U.S. and Syria are dealing with the crisis. 

Over the weekend, a New Jersey high school quarterback died after sustaining game-related injuries. Now some are questioning if the game still has a place in schools.

Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship faces criminal charges from the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine explosion that killed 29 people. His trial begins tomorrow.  

Tomorrow, doctors and insurers will have to adopt a new set of illness and payment codes. Some doctors worry it might be the "Y2K" of medicine.

A new documentary, "Doped: The Dirty Side of Sports," argues that anti-doping efforts have been both intrusive for athletes, and ineffective at reducing doping.

On Capitol Hill, Cecile Richards forcefully disputed claims that Planned Parenthood sells fetal tissue, saying the accusations are “offensive and categorically untrue.”

Mary Buser, who spent a decade working as a mental health professional at Rikers Island, says that solitary confinement was wrongfully and indiscriminately used to punish inmates.

Without Shell, local Alaskans and members of the oil and gas industry are left wondering how the state will move forward. Alaskan Gov. Bill Walker weighs in here.

In the last 17 months, 8,000 people have been killed in Ukraine since war broke out between government forces and pro-Russian. The Ukrainian president is hoping that the U.N. can help.

The truth about good leaders is that they are often less honest than they appear.

Original news reports of the Columbine high school massacre described the two shooters as asocial members of the "Trench Coat Mafia." But years of research debunks that explanation.