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The bill is aimed at ultra-Orthodox Jews who dressed up as concentration camp prisoners at a protest. The legislation is also part of a bigger discussion within Israel about how much religious beliefs should influence public policy.

An MIT economist who helped shape the federal law overhauling health care has come up with a comic book to explain how it's supposed to work.

Two Mormon missionaries in New Hampshire are often asked about their political loyalties while they proselytize. But the young men try to keep church separate from Granite State.

A math question asked third graders to calculate the number of beatings a slave received. Parents and activists protested in front of the Nocross, Ga. elementary school.

A Washington apple grower wants kids to eat apples, especially his grape-flavored apples. But why take a perfectly good fruit, with its very own complex flavor and aroma, and douse it with something associated with Dimetapp and lollypops?

As they left polling places Tuesday afternoon, many voters revealed they'd made up their minds in the last days of the race.

A mindful eating program helped women eat less and lose weight while dining out at restaurants, a study found. The secret? A researcher says eating slowly and savoring each bite is key.

The Glock is rapped about in hip-hop songs and carried by heroes in action films. It was once touted as the gun of the future, but also derided as a terrorist's best friend. Host Michel Martin and Paul Barrett, author of Glock, discuss how an obscure Austrian manufacturer of door hinges and knives ended up making America's top-selling handgun.

Shalom Auslander's Hope: A Tragedy takes on genocide, identity politics and Anne Frank (now elderly and squatting in a farmhouse in upstate New York) with grim humor and daring irreverence.

Two months after announcing they would take another look at the circumstances surrounding the 1981 death of the actress, authorities say there's "no evidence to suggest that the cause was anything but accidental," the Los Angeles Times reports.