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A controversial women's final at Wimbledon, plus the WNBA All-Stars Game in Chicago.

In the Michigan GOP primary for governor, five candidates were disqualified for allegedly collecting fraudulent signatures. Another was arrested on Jan 6. charges. Now, the race is all about abortion.

Congress is racing to pass a funding measure to avert a government shutdown.

Momentum for sentencing reform grows as leaders of the House Judiciary Committee introduce a bipartisan bill. But rising violence in some big cities could complicate the legislative forecast.

In the middle of the 20th century, more than 6 million African Americans left behind everything they knew in the South and headed to the North, Midwest and West Coast. That "Great Migration" is the subject of a new book by Isabel Wilkerson, called The Warmth of Other Suns..

The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 10,000 points Wednesday, fueled by better-than-expected retail sales numbers and big profits at JP Morgan Chase. The bank reported third-quarter earnings of $3.6 billion, but warned that it still expects more problems with consumer loans.

German Catholics are facing a stark choice: Pay a church tax or forget about receiving the sacraments, including baptisms, weddings and funerals. Germany taxes registered Catholics, Protestants and Jews. In 2011, the tax raised $6.5 billion for the Catholic Church alone. Many progressives and conservatives are up in arms over the German bishops' decree.

Detroit says goodbye to Aretha Franklin at her funeral today. Services will be live-streamed, in the culmination of a week-long tribute to the singer whose voice and soul touched millions.

As West Virginia celebrates its 150th birthday this week, the state's chief historian tells the story of how western Virginians created a secession within a secession.

The secretary of state spoke to a group of students in the capital, Jakarta, saying climate skeptics "are simply burying their heads in the sand."