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Lowering payments to Social Security recipients would help slash budget deficits and even reduce wealth inequality. But there's little support among Democrats or Republicans, the young or the old for cutting the safety net.

Earlier this year, an elderly, former Syrian opposition leader disappeared in Lebanon. Family members say Shibli al-Aisamy, 89, is being held in a Syrian prison, and have pleaded for mercy. The case underscores Syria's repression of the anti-government movement, even outside its own borders.

The Census Bureau released a new experimental poverty measure Monday that takes into account benefits people receive, spending and geographic differences. Under the new measure, which won't replace the official one, more than 2 million additional people in the U.S. are described as poor.

The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults and saddled them with housing and college debt.

After 726 formal complaints, a union lockout, protests and lawsuits and settlements totaling about $20 million, residents in Ponca City no longer have daily struggles with carbon black.

As China gears up for a once-in-a-decade political transition, those vying for leadership are backing competing socio-economic models. This year's political debate has sprung out in the open — and it has leaders and constituents considering how to move forward politically.

The baby boomer generation came into politics with a liberal challenge to the establishment, but that hasn't made it a reliably Democratic voting block. This middle-aged group is deeply dissatisfied with the economy and frustrated with the president.

Hundreds of Iraqis in San Diego County await relatives living as refugees in Middle Eastern countries. In the final part of our series, the process of resettling these refugees to the U.S. has faced major setbacks recently, especially those caught in the strife in Syria.

The Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to an artificial heart valve that can be inserted into the body through a small incision in the leg.

While much of the world worries about how to sustain 7 billion people, in many countries, low birthrates are the more pressing problem. From Germany and Russia to Japan and South Korea, leaders are desperate to reverse a trend of lower birthrates.