Two top aids to Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani were assassinated yesterday, raising tensions as we approach the date of the election in Iraq.

The Supreme Court has once again turned federal sentencing guidelines on their heads. This time by giving more power to judges.

A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine shines a light on the problem of medical interns working too long hours.

Refugee of the tsunami disaster need psychological help in addition to food, clean water, and shelter.

Baseball announces new drug testing rules, and we check in on the state of the NFL playoffs.

Bill Marx talks with the author of a book which looks at the way alcohol affected some of last century's greatest writers.