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Cuba's government plans to lay off more than 500,000 workers in the next six months. Private businesses and cooperatives are supposed to absorb many of the displaced workers. But many questions remain about what's expected to be a rough transition.

When Lucette Lagnado's parents were growing up, Cairo was a place of cultural and religious acceptance. But when the 1952 revolution sent Jews fleeing from Egypt, her family was among the exiles. Lagnado tells the story of their exodus to Brooklyn in The Arrogant Years.

Three out of four uninsured Americans live in states that have yet to figure out how to deliver on its promise of affordable medical care.

Sales of gift cards are forecast to exceed $26 billion this holiday season. One tiny, but growing type of card is the charity gift card. It is meant to address a yearning for more socially conscious giving and receiving. The funds on the card go to a charity of the recipient's choice.

In his new book, conductor John Eliot Gardiner searches for clues to uncover what the great composer's life and personality were really like. He finds a man full of contradictions and unfathomable music — even "a great guy to go out and have a beer with."

From Britain to Beijing, folks have been shivering their way through a remarkably cold and snowy winter. Meanwhile, in parts of the Arctic, it's downright balmy — though still below freezing. What's behind all this unusual weather? It's the Arctic Oscillation — and it's gone negative.

Last year's U.S. Census shows the changes in Asian-American communities across the Southwest.

Desperate operators of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, on Wednesday are having second thoughts about a plan to stave off a meltdown in a fire-damaged reactor by dumping water on it by helicopter.

The number of children living in poverty in San Diego County increased to the highest level in a decade between 2007 and 2008, according to a report presented today to the Board of Supervisors.

Public support for the medical use of marijuana is rising, but the Obama administration has begun lashing out against the drug. The Justice Department has warned that dispensaries aren't immune from prosecution, even in states where medical use is legal.