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Relatives mourn over the bodies of four brothers who were found under the rubble of a destroyed house following Israeli airstrikes in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday.

'Creating The Enemy Of The Future': How 2 Palestinians See The Clash With Israel

"This kind of escalation intensifies the hate, helps the radicals," an analyst who lives in Gaza says as Israel and Hamas launch attacks at each other.

Legendary mobster-turned-informant Henry Hill, shown in 2005, died Tuesday in a Los Angeles hospital after a long illness. He was 69.

Ex-Wiseguy Henry Hill Always Had 'A Ringside Table'

Henry Hill, the mobster-turned-informant portrayed by Ray Liotta in the film Goodfellas, died Tuesday at age 69. Author Nicholas Pileggi talks about the colorful figure he profiled in the 1986 book Wiseguy, which became the basis for Goodfellas.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that looked at whether police could take DNA samples from people who had been arrested but not yet convicted of a crime.

Supreme Court Rules DNA Can Be Taken After Arrest

The court ruled Monday that police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime. The ruling compared DNA sampling to photographing and fingerprinting suspects when they are booked.

Drugs, Chaos And Violence Darken Mexico's 'Midnight'

Journalist Alfredo Corchado covers Mexico for the Dallas Morning News. His new book, Midnight In Mexico, is part memoir and part recent history of the upheaval in the country. He talks to Fresh Air about the power of the cartels, the rampant corruption and the hopes for the future of Mexico.

Photos depict scenes at the $34 million command center in Camp Leatherneck, completed in November. U.S. troops will never use the facility, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction says.

'A $34 Million Waste Of The Taxpayers' Money' In Afghanistan

A new U.S. facility in Afghanistan offers 64,000 square feet of space for more than 1,000 military personnel. Finished last November, it cost tens of millions of dollars. It will never be used for its intended purpose, a military inspector says, and it could be demolished.

A Colorado judge recently ordered Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, to serve gay couples, after he refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding.

No Cake For You: Saying 'I Don't' To Same-Sex Marriage

Photographers and a cake baker who oppose same-sex marriage on religious grounds are challenging rulings that compel them to provide wedding services to gay couples. Lawyers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in.

Chinese 100 yuan bank notes being counted at a bank in Huaibei, in eastern China's Anhui province, in 2013. Undeclared income — sometimes the proceeds of corruption, often just of unclear provenance — is estimated to make up a staggering 12 percent of China's GDP.

Lure Of China's Gray Economy Reaches Rich And Poor

The proceeds from corruption, and legal and ethical gray areas, are a daily fact of life in China. The practice of gray income, which shows no sign of abating, may make political reforms more difficult.

People with chronic illnesses were only slightly more likely than healthy individuals to put their wishes down on paper in a living will.

Many Avoid End-Of-Life Care Planning, Study Finds

Only about a third of U.S. adults have advance directives in place to guide the care they receive if they become too ill to make their own medical decisions.

Trump Backer On The President And The Press

President Trump's relationship with the media is seen as a contentious one. Rachel Martin talks with Chris Buskirk, publisher of the conservative web site American Greatness, who says it is healthy.

The author of a new book, <em>Doing Harm,</em> argues that a pattern of gender bias in medicine means women's pain may be going undiagnosed.

How 'Bad Medicine' Dismisses And Misdiagnoses Women's Symptoms

Journalist Maya Dusenbery argues that medicine has a "systemic and unconscious bias" against women that is rooted in "what doctors, regardless of their own gender, are learning in medical schools."

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