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At its peak, the United Auto Workers union had 1.5 million members. Today, the "A" in UAW might as well include academia, as roughly 100,000 of the union's 383,000 members work in higher education.

How can - and should - music help drive what cities are and what they can be? Shain Shapiro is the author of the new book “This Must Be the Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better." Last month, he visited Chattanooga - and Yellow Racket Records - as part of his book tour.

President Biden is the latest in a long line of presidents to place himself in the middle of a Middle East conflict. U.S. efforts have seen failed starts, wrong turns and dead ends, but some progress.

In his Oval Office speech, President Biden reiterated his strong support for Israel in the wake of a deadly attack by Hamas. But it isn't making political waves in a deeply divided America.

Black holes may seem like interstellar enigmas, but they hold some key lessons on how to move through the universe.

An American F-16 shot down an armed Turkish drone in northeast Syria. Officials said it was the first time the U.S. shot down an aircraft from Turkey, a NATO ally.

More than 90 people were killed Monday by a suicide bomb in Sri Lanka. It was blamed on the Tamil Tigers, who have been fighting for independence for years. Just two weeks from now, peace talks were supposed to resume between the rebels and the Sri Lankan government.

India's economic boom has reached Calcutta, a city better known for crushing poverty. The city wants to ban hand-pulled rickshaws, calling them medieval and inhumane. Officials promise to provide alternative employment, although those promised jobs might not materialize.

Last month, the two main parties in Pakistan's new coalition government agreed to introduce a parliamentary resolution reinstating the senior judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf within 30 days of forming a government. Musharraf's enemies say once the judges are back, they'll declare his recent re-election as president as illegal. Wednesday is the deadline to reinstate the judges.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf continues to work through the most serious political crisis since he took power in a coup several weeks ago. Musharraf suspended the country's chief justice and since then, public protests have increased. The question is whether this is the crisis that will bring down his presidency.