Peter Levine says immigration law must address what it means to be a citizen beyond passing a civics test.

There may not be a single cemetery in Massachusetts or in the entire country that is willing to be Tamerlan Tsarnaev's final resting place, a funeral director told CNN on Monday.

It could take weeks to figure out why a stretch limousine caught fire over the weekend, turning a celebratory bachelorette party deadly, authorities say.

New research suggests that a person's place birth affects the risk of developing allergies.

Rita Pierson calls on 40 years of experience as an educator to unearth the truths of success in learning

Even after doctors removed a golf-ball-sized tumor from her neck in an emergency tracheotomy, Carley Allison could still sing.

Amanda Knox says she's scared to return to Italy to face a new trial nearly six years after her study-abroad roommate's slaying. But she's considering it.

Singer Lauryn Hill's failure to pay federal income taxes for three years hass earned the singer a three-month prison sentence.

An international custody battle over a 70 million-year-old dinosaur skeleton ended Monday with the fossil being repatriated to Mongolia after having been illegally smuggled, handed from owner to owner multiple times and sold at auction.

Investigators have ruled out four potential causes for the fire that led to an explosion at a fertilizer distribution facility in West, Texas, the state fire marshal's office said Monday in a statement.

Iraq sees increased violence, researchers aim to improve facial recognition technology, and the U.S. government considers a sales tax for some online purchases.

Internet shoppers could be one step closer to having to pay sales taxes on online purchases.

The history of beer in the United States is a rich one dating back to the colonies, when soldiers were paid in spruce beer and cider. From there beer weathered a Revolution, Prohibition and a right turn at Albuquerque before positively exploding with deregulation of the industry through the early 1980s.

A Minnesota man arrested after investigators found weapons and explosives in his home was scheduled to appear in federal court in St. Paul Monday afternoon.

A Texas group run by a self-described anarchist has posted what appears to be the first video of the live firing of a handgun created with a 3-D printer.

A referee who died after being punched by a teenage player knew well the violence that too often surfaced in his recreational soccer league. But neither he nor his family thought it would turn deadly, his heartbroken daughter told CNN Monday.

Paul Waldman explains why prominent conservatives gathered to support the NRA as its annual connvention.

David Frum says President Obama and Congress are at a stalemate over policies to speed job creation

On his dock along the banks of Bayou Yscloskey, Darren Stander makes the pelicans dance.

Julian Zelizer says a video that paints Republican senators as play acting their conservative values rings true