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New images taken by the Dawn spacecraft have "transformed what was so recently a few bright dots into a complex and beautiful, gleaming landscape," a NASA mission director says.

Alabama's Board of Education voted Thursday to adopt new science standards. The state's current standards have been in place for a decade, and many teachers are looking forward to the updates.

Baltimore Health Commissioner Leana Wen is working to put the anti-overdose medication naloxone into the hands of as many heroin users as possible. But the price of the antidote has nearly doubled.

A white man called Michael Derrick Hudson used the name Yi-Fen Chou as a strategy to get published. Ken Chen of the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York says the writer wanted to be "special."

How do families decide what kind of college to attend: Private? Public? Community college? Three college students explain why they went for the expensive, private option: Columbia, NYU and Georgetown.

President Obama awarded chef and author Alice Waters with the National Humanities Medal on Thursday. The advocate of sustainable eating explains what it means to have her work recognized this way.

Petra Laszlo, who was caught on video sticking her leg out as a man ran from police while clutching a child to his chest, says she is sorry — and not "heartless."

Nearly a million people are covered by a government evacuation order. The weather service is warning of more severe weather to the north.

In Vermont, a driver was apparently in a hurry to get to court. Police say he was stopped for going 112 mph. The driver explained he was on his way to court to respond to an earlier speeding ticket.

López found him guilty of inciting violence during last year's protests in Venezuela. Amnesty International has called the charges against López "politically motivated."