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If commercial ventures pick up where the space shuttle program leaves off, what will outer space look like? Bob Mondello says they might take a lesson from Hollywood, which has already boldly gone where no company has gone before.

Michel Kilo has spent decades criticizing what he calls a military dictatorship run by one family. He even spent time in jail. Now, a younger generation has sparked a civil rebellion in Syria. "What the youth have managed to do is really enormous," he says.

A speakers bureau in Washington, D.C., is encouraging people to think about homelessness from a first-person view. "My life was just to survive on the streets," one speaker says.

Forty years ago, the Stanford Prison Experiment revealed that people tend to conform — even when that means otherwise good people doing terrible things. Now Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist who created that study, has a new project: proving that regular people can be taught to be heroes.

Protesters in the capital, Damascus, staged a candlelight vigil Wednesday night to press for democratic changes. It was the first officially sanctioned protest in the capital, and it comes just days after the regime allowed opposition activists to meet at a Damascus hotel.

The decision by the Cincinnati-based court took on a special importance because one of the judges upholding the law, Jeffrey Sutton, is a prominent conservative. As a litigator, he made modern states' rights arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court. But in this case, he rejected similar arguments in the context of the national health care law.

The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a California law banning the sale of violent video games to children, saying it ran afoul of the First Amendment right to free speech.

Googling yourself isn't just an act of vanity, it's become a way of protecting your online identity. We'll talk to a local writer who discovered an imposter account on Facebook using her likeness and name to engage in pornographic activity on the popular social media site.

Congress removed the gray wolf from federal protection last month. Many locals and some conservationists in the Mountain West agree the delisting may not be the worst thing.

President Obama announced Wednesday he was pulling home 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by next summer, withdrawing the "surge" of forces he had sent to rescue a flailing effort.