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State Department employees have snooped inside the passport files of all three presidential contenders. The State Department has apologized and is investigating. Two employees have been fired. The Justice Department is weighing whether a criminal investigation is warranted.

The cheapest place to make brushes these days is China. But there are still people pressing bristles into brushes in a factory in the Bronx, and in small plants across the country.

Three scientists will share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering work in the fields of "gene targeting" and embryonic stem-cell research. The discoveries, made over the past three decades, laid the groundwork for understanding how genes work.

A succession of three car bombs detonate in central Baghdad killing at least 43 people and wounding more than 50. The bombs exploded within half an hour of each other, in one case killing rescue workers as they arrived to help those wounded in an earlier bombing.

Turkey is currently battling Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Islamic State and Kurdish separatists in southeast Turkey. All the battles are draining the country, and none is going well.

It's hard not to stare into the eye of any storm, but the more mundane storm effects can pack a punch, so pay attention.

Guest host David Greene revisits the Stone Soup Kitchen in Atlanta to see how the business is doing in the economy. He checks in with some of the people he first met three years ago, during President Obama's first 100 days in office.

“Stairway to Heaven” is the greatest rock song ever made, then again, maybe not. The debate started when it was released November 8, 1971, and it still continues.

After 22 years, Jay Leno will host his last Tonight Show Thursday night. The 63-year-old comedian is leaving at the top of the ratings. Thirty-nine-year-old Jimmy Fallon will takeover as host on Feb. 17.

Before heading out on their Great American Tour later this month, the Southwest Florida-based band Swamp Rats returns to perform new selections of their…