On baseball fields across the country, girls are taking their turns at bat -- on the same teams as boys. Toy labs are creating girl versions of trucks and cars for kids as young as 12 months.

A decade-old benchmark for determining when a driver is legally intoxicated -- the 0.08 blood-alcohol content rate -- should be lowered to 0.05, federal safety officials say.

Known for his outspoken, unapologetic support of migrants in Mexico, the Rev. Alejandro Solalinde is bringing his message to the United States.

In some ways, it's just a number, but it's a big number with enormous implications.

Swimmers were sent scurrying after a young black bear stumbled into their backyard. CNN's John Vause has more.

How did your last doctor's appointment go? If you're like most patients, your answer might be "too quickly."

Bicycles. Barbed wire. A chain. Those are of just some of the items found in kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro's Cleveland yard, according to photographs taken over the weekend by a neighbor and obtained by CNN.

Actress Angelina Jolie announced in a New York Times op-ed article on Wednesday that she underwent a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carries the BRCA1 gene, which sharply increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

Russia's FSB counterintelligence agency said Tuesday it had briefly detained a suspected member of the CIA who was trying to recruit a staff member of one of the Russian special services.

For decades, Dr. Eric Kandel has studied, at the molecular level, how we create short-term and long-term memories.

Is Rush Limbaugh becoming a relic, a human version of "Mad Men," except without the style or cool clothes? Dean Obeidallah says Rush's troubles with advertisers are a sign his time has passed

Howard Kurtz says the media is pronouncing that the president's last term will be a series of stumbles, but history shows second-termers can squeeze in some accomplishments too

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The Justice Department secretly collected two months of telephone records for reporters and editors at The Associated Press, the news service disclosed Monday in an outraged letter to Attorney General Eric Holder.

Ilyse Hogue says Pennsylvania case shows how denying women safe abortions risks sending women into substandard care of a murderer like Kermit Gosnell

Julian Zelizer says Americans will inevitably focus on the appearance and fitness of the president, a job always in the public eye.

After 19 people, including two kids and seven women, were injured during a Mother's Day parade, the FBI said the incident was not an act of terror. Rather, "It's strictly an act of street violence in New Orleans."

Two bartenders have been arrested in connection with the killing of the grandson of civil rights activist Malcolm X, according to the office of the Mexico City attorney general.

Popular American psychologist Joyce Brothers has died, her daughter said Monday.

Pakistan holds national elections, a scientist's boycott raises controversy, an "ice tsunami" hits part of Minnesota, and satellites depict changes on Earth.