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It's hard to imagine that people used to die from things as small as a scratch on the knee — but that's what life was like before penicillin. Author Lauren Belfer's new novel, A Fierce Radiance, follows the intrigue as pharmaceutical companies race to mass-produce lifesaving drugs during World War II.

As Spirit Airlines hangs on the brink of liquidation, we look back at how it grew so fast, and how the bigger airlines fought back to beat them at their own game.

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled last Friday that gay marriage was a constitutional right, making Iowa the fourth state to allow gay marriage. Also this week, Vermont legislators overturned a veto of a gay marriage bill, the first state legislature to vote in favor of gay marriage. Will other states follow?

In April and May, Hear Hear: A Pop-Up Radio Project will be popping up in Oakland and San Francisco public libraries to record memories, tales, and…

We've gone through angry times before in this country: Vietnam, Redbaiting, the Depression, Reconstruction and the Civil War. But historically, eventually, we always seem to sort of get over it. What can we learn from the anger-recovery periods of American history?

The man who killed President Kennedy lived in Apt. No. 2 in 1962 and 1963. In the years since, the building has been falling apart. Though the city has ordered the owner to tear it down, that hasn't happened. So starting today, city crews will be on the scene to do the work.

Jonathan Eig's Get Capone follows the 1931 effort to take down the quintessential American criminal — and obvious killer — on nothing more than a tax charge.

The second of three winning tickets in last month's $656 million record-breaking Mega Millions lottery has been turned in. Earlier, the winning ticket sold in Kansas was claimed. No one has come forward in Illinois yet.

In his new book One Nation Under Dog, Michael Schaffer investigates the booming pet-care industry. He discusses how the $43 billion business reflects our ideas about consumerism, family, politics and domesticity.

For more than 20 years, the alt-rock duo They Might Be Giants has been playing clever and contagious music for fans of all ages. Winning over college campuses and preschools simultaneously, TMBG has never compromised the quirky lyrics and eclectic sound for which it's loved.

The protest organizers are calling for a boycott of work, school and shopping to protest Trump administration policies and what activists describe as a billionaire takeover of government.