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The jazz singer, who used to be into radical feminist punk, now composes and sings beautiful jazz ballads.

HBO's new eight-part series follows an American crime reporter who intends to take Japanese journalism by storm — but first must learn how to navigate the churning opacity of 1990s Tokyo.

Four Connecticut librarians spoke bitterly Tuesday about a months' long gag order they were subjected to after the FBI requested patrons' records under the Patriot Act. The librarians decried their inability to participate in congressional debate on how to rewrite the act.

Three detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp took their own lives early Saturday. Two were from Saudi Arabia, a third from Yemen. All three hanged themselves, and left suicide notes written in Arabic.

Each year an estimated 90,000 people die after picking-up a bacterial infection in a hospital. Now, some states are developing consumer report cards to rank hospitals according to their infection rates.

Braceros -- Mexicans who labored in the United States as part of a 22-year guest worker program put in place during World War II -- have been fighting for more than 40 years to receive pension payments for their labor. Many have died or lack documentation that proves they were part of the program. Jordana Gustafson reports on the challenges braceros face getting compensated for their work.

The Biden administration extended the freeze on student loan payments yet again, this time until September, and announced a reset for borrowers in default.

More than 3.4 million people have fled Ukraine. As that number grows, refugees from other conflicts reflect on their experience of fleeing their home country and what life is like now.

The California Supreme Court has reinstated the state's high school exit exam as a graduation requirement. The divided ruling means that 47,000 seniors who haven't passed the test may not be able to graduate.

One brigade slated for deployment to Iraq this summer will instead be staying in Germany, courtesy of the Pentagon's reassessment of troop levels. Will political progress in Baghdad allow the Defense Department to lower U.S. force levels in the weeks ahead?