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This year's prizes honored, among others, the brave researcher who subjected himself to 200 bee stings to determine where it was most painful.

Many of Bernie Madoff's investors will be getting a full payback of the money they lost when his pyramid scheme went bust — as long as they invested less than $1.1 million. The trustees of a victims compensation fund is making another in a series of distributions today.

Police describe the fires at six predominantly black churches as arson. The ACLU of Missouri said could be racially motivated.

Led by Kurds, the coalition could receive U.S. air support in the fight against both President Bashar al-Assad and ISIS. Its members also include Arabs and Assyrian Christians.

The move will affect some 65 million Americans. It's only the third time that's happened since 1975, when automatic inflation adjustments began.

A harsh winter and burgeoning trade deficit forced the economy to contract by 0.7 percent in the January-March period.

Authorities were eventually able to repel the attack, killing all of the Taliban militants. More than a dozen civilians were hurt in the attack.

North Carolina has seen two attacks in as many days on the barrier islands just off its coast. In separate incidents last week, two people were attacked in South Carolina.

A dozen senators have also called on the Veterans Administration to say why some of the WWII-era troops who were found by an NPR Investigation were denied benefits.

An 18-month old died in the fire. The perpetrators scrawled slogans in Hebrew on an outside wall of the house. Palestinian leaders blamed the Israeli government.