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Some 30,000 people are now under orders to evacuate from the Lake Tahoe Region, as the out-of-control Caldor Fire is spreading rapidly in extremely windy and hot conditions.

Benedict XVI, the first pope in seven centuries to resign, has died at the age of 95.

He has set records in his first two years for the sheer numbers of jurists, dozens of them women. He helped confirm 11 Black women to the appeals courts, more than all other presidents combined.

Chief rabbi of Odesa Avraham Wolf talks about Hanukkah, the festival of lights, in a city without power and enduring a cold winter of war.

3rd and Lindsley, a performance space for big and small acts in Music City, lets the music shine by keeping things (like its name) simple.

Predictions of rolling blackouts across Europe this month have not come to pass — so far. It's not only because of the mild winter.

The leader of the notorious Zeta drug organization was apprehended Monday in an operation involving the Mexican military. The capture of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, 40, took place on a country road less than 20 miles south of the Texas border.

The composer has been lauded for decades over his deeply affective music; director Alejandro González Iñárritu, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and more join us to explain why.

Florida and 20 other states on Friday filed their fullest arguments to date on why the Obama health care law violates the Constitution. The Florida case is the biggest and best situated to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Justice Department has accused executives at two of the world's biggest online poker companies of bank fraud. The government took over their accounts and disabled their websites. The case is shaking up the deck in the high stakes electronic gambling industry.