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Astronaut Walter Schirra's decision to bring a Swedish-made Hasselblad on his Mercury spaceflight set the course for NASA's choice of the camera for the Apollo lunar program.

The longest-serving member of the current court is also its furthest to the right, least traditional and most controversial — and with a new conservative majority, he may be having a moment.

This is a developing story that will be updated. UPDATE 5:02 PM Police are continuing to investigate a mass shooting in Dayton’s Oregon district...

"He was joyful, always wanted to play, always positive," Alberto Romero said of his 6-year-old son, Stephen. Police say the gunman got an AK-47-style rifle into the area by cutting through a fence.

The nation's disability rolls swelled during the Great Recession. But more disabled people are now finding work, and employers are more willing to make allowances, thanks to the tight job market.

For some migrants in Juárez, Mexico, waiting for their asylum claims to be processed means staying in a hot, crowded hotel basement and embarking on a process marked by confusion and randomness.

The cult filmmaker, 73, has plenty of ideas about what older people should and shouldn't do. "You can't be trying too hard to rebel [when] you're older," Waters says. His new book is Mr. Know-It-All.

In late April, a tragedy began to unfold in Larkana. First one, then 15, now hundreds of youngsters have been found to be HIV-positive. Who is responsible?

The world's most widely used weed killer was once seen as one of the safest pesticides. Now it is blamed for causing cancer. Yet the scientific evidence remains disputed.

Many public art projects are slated for this month’s 50th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire and the clean-water movement it spawned. But only one connects that 1969 environmental catastrophe and the current day one caused by our jeans and the dye that makes them blue. “Indigo is the color that we know because of our denim,” says Jessica Pinsky.