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To learn about the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, Melissa Block talks with Deborah Birx, the U.S. Global AIDS coordinator. Birx talks about combating complacency in the fight against the AIDS epidemic.

Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's American Life In Poetry is a free weekly column providing a brief poem and description as a way to bring verse to the masses. Monday, Kooser won a Pulitzer Prize.

Jules Dassin, an American filmmaker who worked in Europe for nearly 30 years, died this week in Athens, Greece. He left the U.S. in the early 1950s, blacklisted for his youthful membership in the Communist Party.

Judith Jones appreciates the finer things in life, especially good cooking. Credited with discovering Julia Child, Jones celebrates food. Her new memoir is called The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food.

President Biden is marking the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by awarding medals to a dozen people who he said helped protect democracy that day.

bulge the FDA is on the verge of approving the first anti-obesity pill in more than 20 years. But critics warn it is no magic solution, and say it can have serious side effects.

Last year the winning word was “levirates," which Merriam-Webster defines as the "sometimes-compulsory marriage of a widow to a brother of her deceased husband."

The four Americans who were part of a prisoner exchange have been released, a senior administration official says, and those who wished to depart Iran have left. A fifth prisoner was also released.

Anti-war protests began to swell within months.

Most financial experts say not to touch your retirement savings until it’s actually time to retire.