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Play among children is vital for their social development. So what's in it for adults?

Washington voters got another chance this week to take the state's relatively new Top Two primary system for a spin. This year Oregon voters will choose...

The outcome of the hearing could put more pressure on the Supreme Court to make a decision on states' same-sex marriage bans.

Medical school is now one year shorter for aspiring doctors. An initiative at the University of California, Davis aims to produce more primary care doctors with less med school debt.

German courts have supported some types of assisted suicide, but the ruling party has vowed to stop doctors and organizations it says are profiting from the practice.

Tether a balloon to the floor of a car, step on the gas, and watch the balloon do something it shouldn't. Ask why. Then discover the answer. Then feel smart.

A South African elephant rubbed itself against the roof of a VW Polo. A field guide tells the Daily Mirror that elephants often satisfy their itches against logs and small trees but none were nearby.

The National Weather Service has downgraded Iselle to a tropical storm. Residents are still warned to take precautions.

The verdict is the first to be handed down against the top Khmer Rouge leadership. As many as 2 million people died in the regime's "killing fields." The two men will serve life in prison.

Targeted airstrikes against Islamic militants have been authorized if the militants advance toward American personnel in northern Iraq.