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After a cancer diagnosis, author and noted mountaineer David Roberts sets out on the trail of Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, remaining dutiful to the route some 240 years later.

King, 23, was stationed in South Korea, but was scheduled to fly back to the U.S. to face disciplinary action when he escaped an airport outside of Seoul and managed to flee into North Korea.

Climate change, technological leaps, panicked insurers, the shifting sense of responsibility: All are powering the still-nascent, but fast-growing industry of preparing homes for wildfires.

This week, the Obama administration unveiled its plan to help banks get so-called toxic assets off their books. While it's unclear how far the plan will need to go, Christina Romer, the head of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, says getting a trillion dollars' worth off the banks' balance sheets will be "unbelievably helpful."

Piracy off the coast of Somalia has become an international problem — and an international business. The issues of criminality and the potential for violence aside, a closer look at the "business model" of piracy reveals that the plan makes economic sense.

It's been a roller-coaster day on Wall Street. New York Stock Exchange floor trader Ted Weisberg, who is president of Seaport Securities, says it has been like a camel's hump — the Dow Jones industrial average was up, then down, then up again before closing nearly 200 points down.

With allegations of hazing within several sports programs at Northwestern University, experts say that other U.S. universities should use this time to change their own cultures.

The Emmy-winning actor is lesser known for his work writing for children. But he calls his book series, about the adventures and struggles of a dyslexic child, his proudest accomplishment.

More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers at hundreds of U.S. facilities could go on strike for three days starting Wednesday, in the largest health care strike in the county's history.

Many South Korean teachers say they have suffered from parents' harassment and excessive demands. This summer, they came out to the streets voicing anger and demanding protection for their rights.