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Ten thousand people filled the arena to watch Lauren Hill of Mount Saint Joseph play the first game of her college basketball career. Hill has a rare form of cancer, and doctors say she has a few months to live.

Terminally Ill Player Scores First Basket Of NCAA Season

College freshman Lauren Hill has a rare form of brain cancer. One of her dying wishes was to play college basketball, and the NCAA allowed a game to be moved up by two weeks so she could.

Moderate Muslims Counter ISIS Propaganda With Their Own Media Strategy

The Indiana-based group Reclamation Studios is hosting conversations online and posting a series of videos refuting the Islamic State ideology that they say has hijacked their faith.

The Margaret Herrick Library was established in 1928. It moved to Beverly Hills in 1991. It's named for Margaret Herrick, who started out as a volunteer librarian for the academy in the 1930s, and ultimately became its executive director.

Discover A Trove Of Hollywood Treasures At The Motion Picture Academy Library

Here, you can find the Cowardly Lion's mane, the designs for Scarlett O'Hara's drapery dress, and many other artifacts that reveal the history of the movie biz.

Nineteen portraits from <a href="http://www.rebeccacampbell.net/">Rebecca Campbell</a>'s ongoing series are on display at the L.A. Louver. She says she portrays female artists "who are serious, diligent, hard working and good at what they do."

Portraits Of LA's Female Artists Send A Powerful Message: 'You Are Here'

Rebecca Campbell's portrait series documents the female artists who go unnoticed or underrepresented. "I made it so that they didn't disappear," she says.

Springsteen Crashes The Show ... And No One Seems To Mind

The Boss showed up, unannounced, at a bar on the Jersey Shore and played for nearly two hours.

Gustave Caillebotte plays with perspective in his 1880 work <em>Interior, A Woman Reading.</em>

Known As A Collector, Gustave Caillebotte Gets His Due As A Painter

Caillebotte was an independently wealthy artist who — unlike his Impressionist buddies — didn't need to sell paintings to make a living. Now, many of his works are on display at the National Gallery.

The Rubik's Cube world championships were held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, over the weekend, drawing participants from more than 40 countries. The winner completed his cube in 5.69 seconds.

For The Rubik's Cube World Champ, 6 Seconds Is Plenty Of Time

Competition was fierce at the Rubik's Cube world championship in Brazil. There was a 4-year-old and a category for those who do it with their feet. The overall winner needed less than 6 seconds.

The city of Modesto's wastewater treatment plant could supply millions of gallons of water to local farmers in California.

Drought-Stricken California Farmers Look To Tap Urban Wastewater

"Crazy wouldn't adequately describe what we're going through," a water official says of parched conditions in the state's Central Valley. Buying treated sewage water could restore some sanity.

Why Tragedies Alter Risk Perception

If Friday's school shooting in Connecticut follows the pattern set by other mass tragedies, huge numbers of Americans are worrying about the safety of their kids at school. How is our perception of risk is shaped by tragedy, and what happens when our perceptions do not line up with the facts?

The U.S. Supreme Court is embarking on a new term beginning Monday that could be as consequential as the last one, with the prospect of major rulings on affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights.

High Court Preps For Another Headline-Making Term

Decisions are expected this term on affirmative action in higher education, same-sex marriage, the Voting Rights Act and a lot of privacy issues. The court opens the term Monday by taking a look at a case brought against Shell Oil by 12 Nigerians granted political asylum in the U.S.

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