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Bishop Keith Butler, founding pastor of the Word of Faith International Christian Center Church, is fighting very long odds to unseat Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow and become the second black senator on Capitol Hill.

Artist and photographer Gregory Crewdson doesn't so much take photos as make them. Alex Chadwick talks with Crewdson about how he uses techniques of film to stage pictures -- and, some critics say, transform the medium of photography.

Kris Freeman has diabetes. The 25-year-old is also the best hope for the United States to win a cross-country skiing medal at the Olympics. No American has medaled in cross-country skiing in 30 years.

Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," published in 1956, is being celebrated this year in readings, panel discussions and literary events around the world. The poem stirred the literary world and influenced generations of poets.

Two members of Duke's lacrosse team are free on bond after being arrested on charges of kidnapping and rape. The charges stem from a team party at a house near the university's Durham, N.C., campus. Prosecutors say the pair assaulted a woman who was hired to dance at the party.

On May 25, 1955, a powerful F5 tornado with winds estimated at 300 mph roared through Udall, Kan., destroying all but a handful of buildings and leaving 80 people dead and 270 injured. The twister helped change America's response to one of nature's most powerful forces.

South Dakota's Republican Sen. John Thune has been in office only six months and he's already learned some hard political lessons from the base closure process. He was surprised when the Pentagon announced it planned to close his state's Ellsworth Air Force Base. Now he fighting to save what is his state's second-largest employer.

Actor and activist James Cromwell glued his hand to a midtown Manhattan Starbucks counter on Tuesday to protest the coffee chain's extra charge for plant-based milk.

The Washington, D.C., hotel run by Donald Trump's family company while he was president has been sold to a Miami-based investor fund.

Before her death at 39 in 1963, singer Dinah Washington battled her seven husbands, her weight and even her fans. But when she sang, nothing else mattered. Biographer Nadine Cohodas talks about Washington's life and music.