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Defense Secretary Ash Carter is expected to announce that women can now serve in front-line combat posts. Here, Carolina Ortiz moves away from a 155-mm artillery piece after loading it during a live-fire exercise at the Marine base in Twentynine Palms, Calif., earlier this year, during a months-long study of how women might perform in ground combat jobs.

Pentagon Says Women Can Now Serve In Front-Line Ground Combat Positions

The process to open combat jobs to women began in January of 2013; Thursday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter made it official across all branches of the U.S. military.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, left, and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy appear at a news conference Tuesday.

Chicago Mayor Emanuel Now Says He Welcomes Federal Investigation

A day after Hillary Clinton called for a Justice Department investigation into Chicago police's handling of the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, Mayor Rahm Emanuel reversed course to support one.

Reaction From Muslims In Southern California

The shooters in the San Bernardino attack were Muslim. Steve Inskeep speaks with Jihad Turk, imam and president of Bayan Claremont Islamic Graduate School, about reaction among the Muslim community.

Unanswered Questions Drive Fear In San Bernardino

Linda Wertheimer speaks with San Bernardino Sun crime reporter Beatriz Valenzuela about reaction in the California community to Wednesday's mass shooting.

"Schools, rather than addressing the problem, have in many, many cases covered this up," says Kirby Dick, director of <em>The Hunting Ground.</em>

Acclaimed Documentary About Campus Rape Draws Critics Too

The Hunting Ground, shortlisted for next year's Oscars, has inspired a backlash — not only for its perspective but for the factual foundation on which it is based and its reporting methods.

The Daredevils Without Landlines — And Why Health Experts Are Tracking Them

It's official: A majority of U.S. homes only have mobile phones. But who knew wireless-only households were into risky behavior? A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researcher explains.

Behind-the-scenes work to reduce injuries and infections in hospitals has paid off. Further improvements may be more challenging.

Hospital Injury Rates Plateau, After 3 Years Of Decline

Hospitals have averted many types of injuries where clear preventive steps have been identified. But complications with less clear-cut solutions remain a problem, a government report finds.

Pictures of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims are displayed as California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein speaks during a 2013 Senate hearing. Wednesday's shooting in San Bernardino, which killed 14 people, was the deadliest since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook, which left 26 people dead.

A Tally Of Mass Shootings In The U.S.

The shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., was the 355th mass shooting in the U.S. so far this year, or a little more than one per day. And it wasn't even the only mass shooting on Wednesday.

A sign points to a McDonald's restaurant in Rome in 2011. Regulators say the restaurant chain essentially has avoided paying taxes on its European profits for years.

EU Investigating Tax Deal Between Luxembourg, McDonald's

Regulators say Luxembourg has allowed the fast-food giant to pay virtually no taxes on its European profits since 2009.

German nudist August Engelhardt sits in front of his thatched tent-like hut on the island of Kabakon (in what is now Papua New Guinea) with the books that he brought with him from Germany. In 1902, he moved to the South Pacific to start a utopian cult that revolved around two orbs: the coconut and the sun.

Death By Coconut: A Story Of Food Obsession Gone Too Far

August Engelhardt believed coconuts were a nutritional and spiritual panacea. So in 1902, he sailed to the South Pacific to start a utopian cult that survived only on the fruit. It ended calamitously.

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