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David Baron of member station WBUR in Boston reports on the effect that proposed cuts in medicare would have on teaching hospitals across the nation. The Medicare program is a major source of funding for teaching hospitals, a system which critics say has resulted in too many specialists being trained at government expense.

Lt. Matt Lane, support services commander of the McLean County Sheriff’s Department, officially announced his bid for McLean County Sheriff on Wednesday after nearly 24 years of service to the department.

Johnson & Johnson says internal testing showed some sunscreen samples contained low levels of benzene, which causes cancer with long-term exposure.

Sheriff Ed Gonzalez runs one of the nation's biggest jails in Houston. If confirmed by the Senate, he'll be tasked with overhauling ICE, an agency he's criticized for its aggressive tactics.

At the peak of the Perseids this week, up to 100 meteors an hour can be caught shooting across the sky at 37 miles per second, leaving long streaks in their wake.

Workers simply don't earn enough money to keep up with skyrocketing rental rates across the country, the National Low Income Housing Coalition found in its latest Out of Reach report.

Chinese propaganda paints the U.S. as a big, bad foreign power out to hold China down. This kind of rhetoric is as old as China's Communist Party, as it celebrates its 100th birthday this month.

Louis Angelino III cleans people's homes for extra money. A friend hired him and left they key under the mat of his New Jersey townhouse. Angelino found the key but it was the wrong address.

Robert Santos, one of the country's leading statisticians, could become the first person of color to lead the U.S. Census Bureau as a Senate-confirmed director.

The nation's top doctor, Vivek Murthy, says misinformation will keep sowing mistrust and endangering lives unless all Americans do their part to fight it.