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U.S. taxpayers pay $30 billion a year to fund biomedical research aimed at finding better treatments. But competition for scarce funding and tenure may be prompting some scientists to cut corners.

More than half a million children born in the U.S. have ended up in Mexico because their parents were deported.

The defendants, who have three children together, wept as a judge sentenced them to a combined 19 years in prison for their role in a white supremacist group's rampage.

Remember the guy who built a special suit to live like a goat? He, too, won an Ig Nobel this year. The prize celebrates eccentric, often amusing research and accomplishments.

Interest in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle transcends borders in a way that past royal weddings have not, writes Autumn Brewington, who anchored The Washington Post's royal wedding blog in 2011.

The line between appreciation and appropriation can be hard to pinpoint. Experts weigh in on the writer's dilemma: Should her husband have worn a Filipino barong to a family party?

There was a time when Patrice Banks avoided taking her car in for routine maintenance. Now, she's a trained mechanic, and the owner of a garage that caters to women.

More than 1 in 5 college students are raising kids, and access to child care is one of their biggest barriers. A new report finds many don't know they can apply for help from federal financial aid.

After decades on the sidelines, the medical trade group is taking a more aggressive stance by fighting two North Dakota laws it says interfere with the doctor-patient relationship.

A Chicago woman found an unfinished quilt of the United States at an estate sale and sought help online to finish it. Quilters from around the country joined her last weekend to complete the project.