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Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Game designer Jane McGonigal says we can.

The induction ceremony will take place at the Hall of Fame breakfast at 8 a.m. Sept. 28 at the Bone Student Center Brown Ballroom on the ISU campus.

This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with guest host Karen Chee, special guest Allyson Felix and panelists Shantira Jackson, Hari Kondabolu, and Roy Blount, Jr.

Hurricane Helene raked the coast of the Carolinas on September 27, 1958, but did not actually make landfall, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Seven farmworkers traveling in a van and the driver of a pickup truck were killed Friday in a head-on crash in a farming area in central California, police said.

The MacArthur Foundation is looking for ideas that would solve one of the biggest global challenges. The winning proposal will receive $100 million.

The Safe-T-Act gave smaller departments extra time to comply. But the requirement kicked in for all law enforcement this month.

Men are more scarce in HEAL careers, short for health care, education, administration, and literacy, than women are in STEM. One psychologist is baffled about why there haven't been many efforts to address this gender gap.

Sarah Posner, a reporter with The Nation's Investigative Fund, talks about how the Steve Bannon-Jeff Sessions-Mike Pence nexus is influencing President Trump's policies.

Eliza Bidois is a Maori writer from Rotorua, New Zealand. After the death of her sister this year, she experienced the three day traditional Maori wake that takes place in the central space of the Maori village, the Marai. During the three days the family slept next to her sister's coffin inside the ancestral house---they cared for the body, sang traditional songs---and in the end were reassured that her sister was in a better place.