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Humor is both a creative and a cognitive process, says Bob Mankoff, who has contributed cartoons to The New Yorker since 1977. Originally broadcast March 24, 2014.

The two states in the news over the past week with high-profile mass shootings have taken big steps in recent years to tighten gun laws. Is a focus on open carry or mental health the best way forward?

"What the Grand Ole Opry did for country music, she has done for Southern food," one writer says of Hach, host of the South's first TV cooking show and a cookbook author and caterer for world leaders.

Injuries have dropped worldwide. But road accidents still take a big toll in the developing world.

David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI's Los Angeles office, made the declaration at a news conference Friday in California.

Isaac Royall, Jr. was a slave owner and son of a slave trader who played a key role in creating Harvard Law School.

At many elite college campuses, the two industries recruit more college seniors than almost any other industry.

Men and women at Fort Campbell in Kentucky react to new rules allowing women to serve in combat positions.

Jenni Kosse worked in the Division of Environmental Health in San Bernardino for more than 20 years. She knew most of the people who were killed or injured by Syed Farook, and she knew Farook, too.

The Pentagon has declared all military jobs will be open to women — and now it must begin deciding how it will actually implement that directive. How far along are the plans to admit women to tank crews, the 75th Ranger Regiment, the Navy SEALs and other such elite units?