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Illinois' new Republican governor is taking a page in politics from other Midwestern states. Bruce Rauner is setting policies that have government labor unions bristling and he hasn't even been on the job for a month.

Margaret Bentley, a woman in British Columbia, didn't want food or liquids if she became mentally disabled. But a nursing home is refusing to stop feeding her, even though she has Alzheimer's.

Education officials would identify the children and parents would have six months to get them to lose weight. If they don't, after another six-month period, parents could face a hefty fine.

The new Authorization for the Use of Military Force, or AUMF as it's known, bans the use of U.S. forces "in enduring offensive ground combat operations."

Craig Stephen Hicks, who turned himself in, was charged with first-degree murder. The police chief said the department would investigate whether the crime was "hate-motivated."

Humanitarian groups say the world is more dangerous than it was 15 years ago. How can they keep their staff safe in places of turmoil?

"Systemic exertion intolerance disease" might not fall trippingly off the tongue, but an Institute of Medicine panel says it better matches the symptoms. The disease, it says, is real.

The European Space Agency probe has sent a new image of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from about 77 miles away.

President Obama defended a limited three-year resolution saying the country is not benefited "by being on a perpetual war footing."

A new online survey shows only 27 percent of Americans can identify the NBC Nightly News anchor from his photograph.