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The city of Chicago has made payouts to several dozen men who were tortured into confessions by police officers decades ago. We examine what receiving the money has meant to the men.

Girls are less likely to identify their own gender as brilliant than boys are, even at age 5. One question is whether it's the girls who need to change their thinking about innate intelligence.

Despite the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, Texas still has 6 million uninsured people, low Medicaid reimbursement rates and narrow choices of doctors and hospitals for many who are insured.

Recent fighting in northern Syria has been pushing more and more civilians to seek shelter elsewhere. But neighboring Turkey, already burdened with 2.6 million refugees, has locked down its border.

The city of Chicago is trying to make amends with men who were tortured into confessions by Chicago police officers. The city is doing it, in part, with payments. And that has led to a big question: How much money is enough to make up for what the torture victims lost?

Two key questions are whether the U.S. can strike early, as it did against Ghana, and whether Belgium can pull away late, as it has in all its games so far in Brazil.

By a 6-2 vote, the Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved measure in Michigan that banned the use of race or gender in deciding admissions to the state's public universities.

Each year, nearly 6 million children die of preventable and treatable conditions. Nearly 300,000 mothers die of complications from pregnancy and childbirth. Yet a new report offers reason for hope.

"After 21 years of teaching in grades 1-6 I have no answers as to why this is a problem now," Ann Marie Corgill wrote, refusing to pay fees and take tests for another state certification.

The U.S.-born creator of Master of None loved working with his Indian parents. But as the father of a 6-year-old, I worry that family ties here aren't as strong as in my homeland.