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The U.N.'s top torture official said Manning's solitary confinement violated the convention against torture.

A series of recent episodes in Afghanistan has raised questions about the U.S. effort to work closely with the Afghans and wind down the U.S. military mission after more than a decade of war.

In the past few months, job growth has picked up, while economic growth has slowed. What's going on?

The university said the star Penn State coach did his minimum legal duty but that was not enough.

The priest who denied communion to a lesbian at the funeral of the woman's mother is 'placed on leave' by the archdiocese.

Presidential speeches are often the rhetorical equivalent of the old and discredited medical practice of bleeding patients; not doing much good in most cases, definitely harmful in many others.

Exhibits at the Las Vegas Mob Museum explore the notorious, 20th-century rivalry between coppers and mobsters. Visitors can listen to wiretaps, practice FBI-style surveillance, spray pretend bullets from a Tommy gun and even participate in their own police lineups.

Researchers found a 15 percent lower risk of prostate cancer among circumcised men than those who hadn't been circumcised. But the study doesn't prove that circumcision would work, though there're some reason to think it might.

A man with locked-in syndrome is asking a court to let doctors kill him, without facing murder charges.

All of our food crops are descended from plants that once grew wild. But the line that separates a despised weed from a valuable crop is sometimes a very fuzzy one.