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A strongly bipartisan group of House members is sponsoring a bill to make the director of the Secret Service subject to Senate confirmation, following widespread concern over the agency's performance in recent months. The bill also increases funding for protection of second residences, which for the Trump administration has become a major expense.

There’s often a lot of talk from politicians and pundits about jobs, and jobs creation. But Northeast Ohio recently served as one of a handful regions trying a different way to help workers.

Kali Gibbons sets out canvases and bright acrylic paints in the lunchroom at the Stella Maris recovery center on Monday afternoons. About a dozen men filter in, take a seat and grab a brush to paint. “Knowing that art is something that can help others recover and it’s something that I can give to others, that’s why I do it,” she said. Gibbons teaches art to school children four days a week. Monday is technically her day off, but she spends part of it at the Cleveland rehab center working with men battling addiction.

A new federal program in 19 cities around the country allows the government to sue for unpaid student loan debt.

A decade ago, the NHL's experiment with hockey in Nashville, Tenn., was in trouble. Now "Smashville" fans are in love with the Predators, who are playing in their first Western Conference finals.

"That's like setting three small cars on top of the jaws of a T. rex — that's basically what was pushing down," a researcher says. Humans bite with a measly 200 pounds of force.

This outreach worker for a needle exchange program in Cleveland is gathering basic information from a drug user before handing him new needles in exchange for his used ones. The program aims to reduce HIV or Hepatitis B and C infections that can occur when heroin addicts share needles. The program is one example of what’s known as a harm reduction model, which emphasizes treating addiction with compassion rather than punishment, according to Professor Mark Singer of Case Western Reserve University.

The mayor is handing out a half-million whistles to women in hopes of combating sexual harassment on public transportation. But critics say this only addresses a small part of the problem.

Renee Montagne talks to Gorbah Hamed, an "undecided" Muslim-American voter who asked a question regarding Islamophobia during the second presidential debate in St. Louis.

Charlie Shrem went to prison for his involvement in Bitcoin trading. Now he's out and part of the next evolution of Bitcoin's future, investments that trade using Bitcoin's underlying technology.