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A long line of mourners queued up Friday to pay their respects to the late Supreme Court justice, whose body is lying in repose.

There's a fine line between telling people about an emerging public health threat, such as Zika virus, and scaring them out of their wits. Once alarm spreads, it can be hard to make the facts known.

Zika was ignored by infectious disease scientists for years. This happens more often than you might think, especially with diseases discovered in remote regions. A researcher says we can do better.

Her husband died. Then the neighbors started showing up. They brought soup. Cookies. Tea. But what they really brought was empathy. And that made the pain bearable.

Should we get rid of the Zika-spreading Aedes aegypti species? Or is it just never a good idea to eradicate a critter?

Read about the mental health of Black Lives Matter activists, what happens when authorities shoot a hospital patient and racial insensitivity in the workplace.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron is calling for a historic nationwide referendum on whether the UK will stay in the European Union. He says new concessions from the EU mean Britain should stay.

Linda Wertheimer talks with The Washington Post's Terrence McCoy about brain-damaged Baltimore residents signing away lead poisoning settlement money. He just won a Polk award for his reporting on it.

The spread of Zika is taxing Colombia's already over-burdened health care system.

Linda Wertheimer gets a preview of today's South Carolina Republican primary from conservative radio host Mike Gallagher.