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Some Olympians are able to train year-round to be at the top of their game. Others, like snowboarder Jonathan Cheever, also need to have a regular job.

For the first time in a decade, someone other than Jerry Seinfeld tops Forbes' ranking of the highest-paid comedians.

America's top math students went head-to-head with competitors from more than 100 countries — and they won. "If you can even solve one question," their head coach says, "you're a bit of a genius."

David Wildstein, Gov. Chris Christie's top staffer at the Port Authority, admitted to his role in orchestrating lane closures on the George Washington Bridge as political payback.

For the first time, a woman has been named CEO of a major U.S. automotive company. Mary Barra, 51, breaks a glass ceiling in one of the most male-dominated industries in the nation. But women buy more than half the cars in America, so the question is why it took so long.

The 18th century Catalan tradition of castelling, the building of human towers, or castles, is undergoing a renaissance today. This has accompanied a rise in Catalan nationalism.

Navalny and eight of his allies — including top aides Lyubov Sobol and Georgy Alburov — were on Tuesday added to the registry by Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service.

The California Academy of Sciences has held a seminar to attract young women into the male-dominated world of science. In January, Harvard University's President Lawrence Summers made controversial comments suggesting that innate gender differences prevent women from getting top science and engineering positions. Member station KQED's Rachel Martin reports.

In A History of the World in Twelve Maps, Jerry Brotton examines the construction of a dozen world maps throughout history, and argues that world maps are no more objective today than they were thousands of years ago.

Israel and Lebanon are bracing for the possibility of even stronger attacks after Israel’s killing of three top leaders from the militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah -- in three different countries.

If confirmed, the Florida senator would become the first Latino to ever serve as the nation's top diplomat.

Even though the top four congressional leaders left their White House meeting with the president separately and silently Friday, they cast the hourlong encounter in a positive light back at the Capitol.