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At tonight's game, if they win, the Kansas City Royals would claim their second championship ever. Sports writer Dave Zirin of The Nation sets up the game, and looks at this series' place in history.

The suicide rate has increased in the past decade, despite the best efforts of hotlines and prevention programs. A Detroit health plan set a zero suicide goal among its members — and achieved it.

The World War II military experiments exposed more than 60,000 American troops. But because the testing was classified, many family members of veterans never learned the details of what happened.

When it comes to women's shoes, fashion often trumps function. But as women age, comfort starts to compete with style. Cue the rise of the trendy comfort shoe.

In New York, a billionaire couple asked that a college be renamed in their honor after they donated $20 million to the school. One expert says the request reflects a new trend among the megarich.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tried to jump-start his presidential bid in his home state Monday. In the campaign lately, he's been battling his political protege, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

Many extremely popular writers of the 19th century are now pretty much forgotten — and gone with the wind.

Yemen is used to getting about 4 inches of rain per year. Chapala has dumped more than twice that in a day. Parts of the arid, war-torn country are now flooded.

Bernie Sanders is an improbable politician. Independent, occasionally irascible, he came from the far left and an urban background to win elections in one of the most rural states in the country.

Greece is struggling to screen asylum seekers and migrants quickly on the island of Lesbos. Migrants are arriving in record numbers, and the EU wants Greece to accommodate more.