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What happened in New Hampshire? How could all eight polls that predicted Barack Obama would defeat Hillary Clinton have been wrong? We speak to veteran pollster Dan Yankelovich and sociologist Gordon

The prosecutor who tried the famous Kitty Genovese murder trial in the 1960s still cannot believe dozens of people heard a woman being murdered, but chose not to intervene.

The fall quarter at UC San Diego begins with students scrambling to get to their classes. That's normal. But much of yesterday wasn't. Hundreds of students, professors and other employees marched along campus streets with signs and banners protesting the University of California Regents’ response to the system's money problems.

Many of our deepest friendships blossom when we are eager, expectant college freshmen. It turns out that common interests and that mysterious "chemistry" are not necessarily what forms friendships. Researchers say proximity and race are bigger predictors.

It was 40 years ago Tuesday that the Kent State University shootings -- which killed four people and wounded nine others -- stunned the nation. For many there on May 4, 1970, it was a life-changing event. But students on the Kent campus today say it had little bearing on their choice of college.

In a kind of supermarket Cinderella story, a cashier in France has become a literary sensation. Anna Sam has turned her ungratifying job into a humorous memoir. Now, her book has been translated into 16 languages and turned the 29-year-old into the author she always wanted to be.

What exactly is "American identity" and how has it changed throughout this country's history? On the eve of Independence Day, we talk about what it means to be an American and how that identity has e

Last week presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered a speech in which he tried to explain how his Mormon faith would, or would not, influence his judgment as president. Romney's situation, and ques

After more than two years behind bars, Genarlow Wilson is free from prison. In 2003, Wilson was sentenced to 10 years for having consensual oral sex with another teenager. The punishment was eventually denounced by Georgia's Supreme Court.

Will the mid-term election results decrease evangelical support of the Republican Party? What’s the difference between a megachurch and a seeker church? Why are those kinds of churches growing in p