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As Iraqis ponder the hundreds of parties and thousands of candidates up for election Thursday, we hear from another Baghdad resident on his thoughts on the voting. Subhi Nadhum Tawfeeq is a political science professor at Baghdad University.

The acclaimed sci-fi drama grappled with issues that plague real-world leaders. As the show neared its end, cast and producers asked how fiction can offer wisdom on profoundly tough choices.

Teachers are leaving their profession in record numbers, especially at the high-school level, according to study released Thursday. Some 40 percent of the nation's teachers are now 50 years or older and an unprecedented number of them will likely retire in the next five years, a study shows.

A slumping housing market, sluggish retail sales, sagging consumer confidence suggest the economy could be heading into a recession. While it may already feel like a recession to millions of Americans, by the time we know for sure, the recession may already be over.

Huang Meihua lost her legs when her school collapsed on her last May in the China earthquake. Now, she struggles with classmates gawking at her prosthetic legs. And she and her parents worry about where she'll attend classes when her temporary school closes.

U.S. caualty numbers continue to rise in Iraq, with October turning out to be one of the deadliest months to date. Two political scientists analyze the unstable situation abroad and how it might affe

The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego has entered into a $100 million agreement with Pfizer to study uncured diseases and ways to treat them.

The world's fisheries are in rapid decline, due primarily to overfishing. A new study finds that the decline could be halted — and in some cases even reversed — if fishermen were granted transferable quotas to go out and catch fish.

The vast, icy expanse of the South Pole has nurtured its own community. But what kind of people come for months at a time to live at the most difficult place on Earth?

Earlier this week, the San Diego City Council voted 7-1 to repeal its supercenter ordinance. The ordinance required supercenter retailers to conduct an economic impact study in order to get building permits. The council reversed its decision after Walmart's successful signature-gathering would have forced a public vote on the issue. We discuss why two councilmembers changed their vote.