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A Lancet medical journal report finds that human-caused climate change is worsening human health in just about every measurable way. It calls for more urgent action from world leaders.

Listeners pose questions about the coronavirus and the illness it causes, COVID-19.

So far, gay marriage remains largely an issue for the states to decide for themselves. On Tuesday, voters in Alabama approved a state amendment to ban gay marriage. Where does the issue stand in other states?

Sixty years ago, an angry white mob grabbed two black couples from a car, beat them and shot them to death. Townsfolk remained quiet about what they knew. Now, the FBI is reexamining the case.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch makes an unexpected visit to Lebanon for talks with Lebanon's government on a solution to the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Meanwhile, Israel intensifies a ground offensive in southern Lebanon.

Humanitarian groups are finding cheaper ways -- namely, filtering systems -- to clean up contaminated drinking water in developing nations. That could greatly reduce diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites among the billion people worldwide who drink unsafe water.

Health officials are recommending that high-risk patients, including the elderly and health-care workers get their flu shots early this year. But there is growing evidence that the best way to slow the spread of the flu would be to vaccinate young children.

The deadline to enroll in the new Medicare drug benefit is March 15 -- but some lawmakers have asked to push that date back, because the plan's rules are too confusing for seniors. President Bush, however, vows there will be no delay. Julie Rovner reports on what's behind the president's decision.

A crackdown on the media in China during the past few months met with a rebuttal Tuesday from several former Communist party officials. In an open letter, they lambasted the propaganda department for censorship, including the closure of a progressive publication known as Freezing Point.

Two days after the West Virginia mining community of Sago learned that 12 men had died in a mining disaster, families are still seeking answers about how false hopes were raised and then dashed.