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Born in Cuba in the late 1800s, danzón had couples gliding in a kind of formal square dance a century later.

Lincoln, Neb., is home to a sizable group of Iraqi Yazidis, members of the minority group being persecuted in Iraq. One of them, Sulaiman Murad, describes the agony of watching the crisis from afar.

The latest report in response to the horse meat scandal of 2013 reminds us that the potential for fraud in the food supply is high. But scientists are working to predict and prevent the next incident.

Twenty-three year old Navajo artist Tom Greyeyes goes bold and big in his mixed media art. Some of his art expresses the struggle of belonging to two worlds.

The result is unlikely to quell claims from Ashraf Ghani's rival, Abdullah Abdullah, that the election was fraudulent. Abdullah easily won the first round of voting, but now trails by a million votes.

A 2013 accident on the flight deck of the USS William P. Lawrence that claimed the lives of Lt. Cmdr. Landon L. Jones and Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jonathan S. Gibson was the fault of commanding officer Cmdr. Jana A. Vavasseur - according the Navy admiral overseeing the investigation.

There is no end to how much we can know of reality. But we can never know everything, says commentator Marcelo Gleiser.

Common Core -- the new set of national education standards in math and English language arts -- will take effect in most states next year. This move toward a single set of standards has been embraced by a bipartisan crowd of politicians and educators largely because of what the Common Core standards are replacing: a mess.

A legally blind woman who has led a fight to make Medicare pay for care even when patients' medical conditions don't improve is in court to get Medicare payment for her own home care.

Director Mike Cahill Talks About The Windows To Your Soul