As China and the US enter diplomatic talks this week, they face a potential bump in the road: a blind Chinese dissident named Chen Guangcheng has escaped house arrest and is said to be in US custody.
Half a million veterans have used the G.I. Bill in the last decade to go to college. Now, the Obama administration is cracking down on what it sees as manipulation of veterans by for-profit universities.
Just when it seemed like overcrowding in L.A. classrooms was a thing of the past, now there's a growing number of schools fighting for the classrooms themselves.
Meet Erin Catto. He lives in Irvine. He’s a father of two, a video game fan and a Cornell graduate who holds a PhD in theoretical and applied mechanics. He is also responsible for the physics of one of the popular mobile games in history.
The John Edwards trial continues in North Carolina this week. Today, the wife of Edwards' former staffer Andrew Young is on the stand to testify about the extreme lengths to which her husband went to hide Edwards' affair with his mistress, Rielle Hunter.
Cookbook author Anne Willan has published a new book, "The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook," which traces the history of the printed cookbook.
