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It's not uncommon to hear claims that young people these days have higher rates of mental health issues than in the past. But the data don't back that up. So how come millennials get a bad rap?

The race for House speaker took an unexpected turn late last week when leading candidate, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy withdrew his name. That threw the House GOP into a leadership crisis.

"I'm absolutely delighted," says Angus Deaton of Princeton University. He won for "his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare," the Nobel Committee says.

Seeking to broaden Dell's information technology product line, its deal to buy EMC Corp. also gives EMC shareholders a stake in VMware, a cloud and virtualization company.

After three years and more than $15 million, Scotland Yard says it's removing the guards that have waited outside the Ecuadorean Embassy for a chance to arrest the WikiLeaks founder.

A debate over academic freedom of speech sparked in summer 2014 when the University of Illinois rescinded a job offer to a professor over a controversial set of tweets about the Israel-Gaza conflict.

The winner of this year's Nobel prize in Economics, Angus Deaton, is a microeconomist at Princeton with a talent for explaining consumer behavior and the effects of welfare on poverty.

In 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court limited life sentences without parole for juveniles who commit murder. On Tuesday the panel will hear arguments on whether the ruling should apply retroactively.

A new study of drinking water in areas where fracking is used to extract natural gas found that contamination is not common and it probably did not come from deep underground.

Farmers clear land by lighting fires, causing smoke to blanket huge areas of southeast Asia. A prolonged drought may be making the fires worse. Renee Montagne talks to BBC reporter Rebecca Henschke.