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They fear that the threat of isolating a returning health worker for 21 days will cause a drop in the number of volunteers at a time when more medical staff is needed to quash the outbreak.

People from across the country react to President Obama's decision to send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. Some say more troops are needed; others say the U.S. should walk away from the conflict.

President Obama is promoting new initiatives to improve education for Native American students. Ahniwake Rose, executive director of the National Indian Education Association, has the details.

Author Michael Farquhar has a new book of mini biographies called A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans. These are people whom, for some reason, official history has overlooked — among others, a swashbuckling female pirate and a "DO-take-prisoners" World War II Marine.

An American doctor journals her daily life as a volunteer in al-Shifa hospital, which was once Gaza's largest medical facility.

Many of the early jockeys in the Kentucky Derby's history were black — unlike today, as Professor Pellom McDaniels of Emory University explains.

Son jarocho is a musical style from the Gulf Coast of Mexico, which carries with it a culture of community and participation. In Los Angeles, Mexican-Americans have turned to son jarocho as a way of connecting with their roots — and each other.

Consumers are growing more cautious about the U.S. economy, in the face of stubborn inflation and looming tariffs.

High crime rates are holding back economic development in Latin America. One element of the crime is extortion, which cuts into the bottom line for local businesses and ordinary citizens.

The recent allegations that a Chinese spy was trying to steal technology are in fact nothing new. Audie Cornish talks to James Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about protecting U.S. technology from spying abroad.