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Iowa Republican Charles Grassley, the first non-lawyer to head the committee, gets his turn in the spotlight as he leads the hearing on President Obama's choice for attorney general Loretta Lynch.

The group No More has been using public service announcements to raise awareness about domestic violence.

The "Friendship Nine" were college students arrested for a sit-in at a South Carolina lunch counter in 1961. A judge has cleared them of a five-decades-old trespassing conviction.

The satirists at The Onion had a field day with his vigor. In fact, Mayor Bill de Blasio even read from the article for the City Hall press corps.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said the events of Ayotzinapa "forces the country to change" toward a "just and free Mexico."

The nine men integrated a whites-only lunch counter in Rock Hill, S.C., in 1961, and refused to pay a fine. Their "jail, no bail" strategy became a rallying cry against Jim Crow.

The California State University system is launching a renewed effort to raise the graduation rates of freshmen and transfer students. As Ben Adler reports…

It's notoriously hard to get people to quit smoking. Pregnant women in Scotland were more apt to stop if they got $600 in gift cards. But are those kinds of payments ethical?

Bob Kafka of ADAPT says that despite the governor’s own paralysis, he has gutted programs for disabled people.

Edward Gerson is a 100-year-old alumnus of Dartmouth's class of 1935. He's turned his class notes into a column.