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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is releasing new guidelines on cervical cancer screenings. Dr. Otis Brawley discusses what's changed.

In Syria, a rescue operation to retrieve the corpses of a massacred family turns up a child who survived. Arwa Damon reports.

Forty-four years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down on the balcony of a Memphis hotel, the Tennessee city is overcoming what some call protracted guilt and embarrassment, and naming a street in his honor.

After years of criticism, the Transportation Security Administration is taking the initial steps to modify screening for people age 75 or older.

Days after the killing of 16 Afghan civilians, allegedly by a U.S. soldier, Hamid Karzai calls for U.S. troops to withdraw from outposts to their main bases in the country.

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is scheduled to arrive at a Colorado federal prison Thursday to begin serving a 14-year sentence on a corruption conviction.

Virginia Tech plans to consider all its options after it reviews a jury verdict that found it was negligent in a 2007 shooting rampage that left 33 people dead, including the gunman, a university spokesman said.

Federal health officials are unveiling Friday a $54 million national media campaign to get smokers to quit and prevent anyone else, especially children, from starting.

A man who survived the April 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech says not enough is being done to keep guns out of the hands of people like the shooter even as jury found the university failed to warn students earlier that a gunman was on campus.

Ruben Navarrette says before it gives its nod, the GOP should consider Romney's weakness in the south--a region that's a must-have to win the presidency

Three people were in critical condition and one in stable condition after a stabbing incident Wednesday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio, that ended with the suspect being shot by police, Columbus authorities said.

The longtime companion of notorious fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger has pleaded guilty to several charges related to their infamous 16-year run from authorities.

Two victims' families were awarded $4 million each after arguing the school should have warned sooner that two students were slain. Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people.

James O'Rourke says the death of the printed encyclopedia is a real loss because of its accuracy and availability

A school bus packed with students collided with a semi-truck in southern Pennsylvania Wednesday, a 911 dispatcher said.

At least one person was killed and at least two others were injured in a shooting today at a Texas courthouse, a judge says.

Tim Stanley says once-cozy relationship between the U.S. and its old ally has cooled as Obama has turned to domestic priorities. As the prime minister makes a state visit, the chill is not lost on Britons

Matt Welch says even a second-place finish by Rick Santorum could make him a major force in the GOP -- and that's not a good thing

Activists presented a petition Tuesday to the United Nations Human Rights Council calling on Pakistan to free a Christian mother of five from being put to death on the charge of blasphemy.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quizzed by lawmakers Wednesday on domestic and foreign policy issues after being summoned before parliament.