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The Labor Department rule guarantees legally married same-sex spouses can take unpaid time off to care for one another or sick relative, even in states thatdon't recognize the marriage.

In India, many widows largely vanish from mainstream society as dictated by tradition. But when it comes to Holi, the spring festival of colors, some widows come out to join the celebration.

A flood of refugees in Germany has strained resources, particularly housing. A website has signed up hundreds of Germans willing to have the newcomers come and live with them.

A global health student from Seattle went to the tiny country to study maternal health. But she also learned how to be more friendly to her neighbors.

Let's rewind the clock 150 years to the end of the Civil War, when Southern planters had to find new laborers.

Scientists are sharply divided on whether the disordered thinking and paranoia sometimes caused by marijuana is just a temporary thing or the start of long-term disorders like schizophrenia.

The president will speak in Selma, Ala., on Saturday, a half-century after civil rights marchers were beaten and tear-gassed by state troopers.

What are Latinos to make of the relative silence of their leadership organizations on the deaths of Latinos at the hands of police?

In Pittsburgh, a lifelong book lover has created a safe haven for exiled dissident writers from all over the world.

The first secretary of the North Korean Embassy in Dhaka tried to claim diplomatic immunity when customs officials asked to scan his bags, officials said.