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Life tenure was meant to insulate justices from politics, but the clash building between President Obama and the GOP-controlled Senate after Antonin Scalia's death shows how that hasn't panned out.

Members of the U.S. heavy metal band who survived the Paris massacre made a return visit to the city. For many, attending the rescheduled show was the only way to try moving past the trauma.

The European Union is trying to manage the influx of asylum-seekers. Greeks fear threats to force Greece out of the passport-free zone is a plan to turn the country into a migrant detention camp.

Commercial flights between the U.S. and Cuba are set to resume for the first time in more than 50 years. David Greene talks to Scott Laurence, senior vice president for JetBlue.

Jasen Dixon faced thousands of dollars in fines for what many found distasteful. Basically, ghouls were substituted for the holy family.

Support for automatic voter registration — now being considered in about two dozen states — has pretty much broken down along party lines.

We all have comfort foods — even Pope Francis and the men who guard him. The Vatican Cookbook is a tour of life and food in the world's smallest country, as told by members of the Swiss Guard.

The opera, by the late composer Maurice Ravel, spins a modern fairy tale about a naughty child at bedtime. Critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new recording of it by conductor Seiji Ozawa.

Ex-chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers are blasting an analysis from UMass-Amherst professor Gerald Friedman that Bernie Sanders' camp has praised recently. Do their opinions matter to voters?

Michigan created a special fund to cover work-related cancers in firefighters, but legislators never put any money in it.