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The VA has begun to pay new benefits for Agent Orange related diseases. Three new diseases are added to the VA's list of herbicide linked health conditions.

After 2008, the GOP made a concerted effort to recruit more diverse candidates. And it appears to have paid off, as a record number of Latino Republicans and the first black Republicans in years are headed to Capitol Hill.

In key races across the nation, candidates won -- and lost -- in part because of the television and Web ads they ran. The Message Machine looks at nine ads that were truly unique and really made a difference in the 2010 campaign.

Palin Power

Female circumcision has been illegal in Egypt for years, but authorities are making a stronger push to eradicate it after a young girl died last month during the procedure.

Need For Speed: Young Veterans' Desire for Adrenaline Leads to Surge in Deaths

Almost 2,000 years before the Inca sun cult appeared, a culture in coastal Peru built a series of towers to track the movement of the sun. Archeologists say it may be the oldest solar observatory in the Americas.

Airs Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

As Athens prepares for the upcoming Summer Olympics, archaeologists are exploring the thousands of years of history that lie just beneath the city's surface. Chris Joyce reports on findings about the civilization that created the first Olympics.

An exhibit about Eros at Rome's Colosseum seeks to illustrate the huge gap between contemporary attitudes of erotic love and how the subject was treated in antiquity.