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Voters at a Mississippi Public Broadcasting event shared their thoughts on whether Congress should authorize President Obama's plan for military strikes against the Syrian regime.

Officials have launched an investigation into how 19 elite firefighters from the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew were killed, and whether their deaths could have been prevented.

Instead of throwing the book at parents who use the library as a babysitting center, one librarian is developing a program for the kids that includes mentoring and tutoring.

Internet radio service Pandora is being closely watched by investors. The company is set to announce its latest quarterly earnings Tuesday. Last week, the head of Pandora was in Washington to push for lower music royalties.

Clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh was born in Damascus, but now lives in New York, where he wakes up to bad news each day. One of his compositions, “A…

Rescuers were in The White Mountains Saturday night after being alerted that somebody needed help. They just didn’t know who or why.The alert came about…

At the StoryCorps booth in Bismarck, N.D., 81–year-old Virginia Fairbrother tells her daughter, Laurel Kaae, a family story about kindness to a stranger during the Great Depression.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's new autobiography has just been published. Titled My Grandfather's Son, it covers his life up to his swearing in as a member of the high court.

The Senate blocked an amendment to a defense policy bill that would have changed how leave time is handled for U.S. troops on Wednesday. Congress continues its debate about Iraq this week as support for the war crumbles among some in the Republican Party.

Ken Burns has drawn criticism in the past for omissions to his PBS series on baseball and jazz. Now the documentary filmmaker is drawing fire for leaving Hispanics and Native Americans out of his 14-hour World War II story.