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A new book, The Real Pepsi Challenge, looks at how the cola company sought brand loyalty among African Americans in the 1940s. Hear from the man who led Pepsi's marketing team.

A 63-year-old janitor died in the public bathroom of a South Carolina Belk department store, but her body was not discovered for four days, authorities said.

Jose P. Ramirez Jr. had been sick for years before a Mexican healer told him he had "a disease of the Bible." He was 20 when he was diagnosed with leprosy, known as Hansen's disease. In his memoir Squint: My Journey with Leprosy, Ramirez writes about his life and recovery at the leprosarium in Carville, La.

In American politics, truth has always been more entertaining than fiction, making truly great political novels a rare treasure. Dick Meyer suggests three addictive, incisive gems you won't want to miss.

We remember New York Democratic Rep. Lousie Slaughter, who died on Friday at the age of 88.

President Daniel Ortega intensifies his political crackdown, stripping 94 of the most prominent Nicaraguan writers, journalists and human rights activists of citizenship. They lose all their rights.

The two-pill treatment prevents a pregnancy from continuing weeks into the process and accounts for half of all abortions in the U.S.

The votes are coming right as President Biden authorized a retaliatory strike in Syria after one U.S. contractor died and another five were wounded in a suspected Iran-backed drone strike.

Under this new screening process, migrants who enter the country illegally will be screened by asylum officers while under the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

President Bush is in Germany for three days of meetings at this year's G-8 summit. Formal sessions begin Thursday morning at a resort town on the Baltic. The U.S. and Europe are at odds over climate change, and tensions are rising between the U.S. and Russia over a missile-defense system.