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Child life specialists can minimize the trauma caused by a hospital stay. They're also costly, but experts says they help doctors be more efficient and can pay dividends far into the future for a sick child.

Some food holidays are pure marketing, but at least this one has a bit of Olympic history behind it. Some of the first Olympians were said to have dined on cheesecakes, although they sound a bit different from cheesecakes today.

Flowers In The Attic is saucy and scandalous, but author Gillian Flynn says it was the complex, often evil women in the story that kept her turning the pages. Do you have a favorite female villain? Tell us about her in the comments.

After just three days of deliberations, a jury reached a verdict in the high-stakes trial between Apple and Samsung over patent infringement. The federal jury found that Samsung infringed on several of Apple's patents, and it awarded Apple more than $1 billion in damages.

On Medicare, the stimulus and a story about the GM plant in his hometown, the GOP vice presidential nominee got some facts wrong, according to the news outlets and nonpartisan watchdogs that parse politicians' words.

Centuries into the future, cranky technophobe Huw gets dragged into a massive conspiracy after someone at a party infects him with a technological parasite. Rapture of the Nerds is the latest from science-fiction stars Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow, but it may be tough going for non-nerds.

Eight weeks before the start of the Democratic National Convention, some vendors who hope to sell merchandise are frustrated they have no information.…

It's in a swing county in a swing state. It's easy to get to, right off Interstate 4. And did we mention it's known for its strawberries — including strawberry milkshakes? If that wasn't enough to draw politicians, it also blends the nostalgia of Florida's past with its rapidly changing future.

Some Maryland dairies have banded together to boost business by attracting customers with ice cream. The Maryland's Best Ice Cream Trail is the first farm-based ice cream trail in the country, and some customers are coming weekly to stock up.

Russia is about to join the World Trade Organization, which means the country will have to lower trade barriers and expose Russian companies to more international competition than before. Will Russia follow in the footsteps of China when it entered the WTO and prosper, or will the new affiliation prove to be too much?

Eight weeks before the start of the Democratic National Convention, some vendors who hope to sell merchandise are frustrated they have no information.…

Ben Affleck's Argo, which is based on the declassified story of the CIA's mission to save six American diplomats trapped in Iran in 1979, is gripping, compelling and, at times, hilarious. But, as critic David Edelstein explains, the best parts of the "true" story are the parts that aren't true at all.

Robert Siegel talks to Michael Leigh, senior adviser to German Marshall Fund in Brussels. They discuss how the European Union was formed to prevent another war in Europe. The Nobel committee in Oslo named the EU the winner of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.

When the presidential candidates hold their final debate Monday night, this one on foreign policy, they'll likely be asked to define their vision of America's role in the world. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, that role may shift back to economic and cultural leadership, scholars say.

Volkswagen produces cars for the U.S. market in Chattanooga, Tenn. The state invested a lot of money to encourage VW to expand the plant and now the emissions scandal has them worried.

The CEO and two other high ranking officials at United Airlines resigned Tuesday in the midst of an internal and federal investigation.

In the Chesapeake Bay, cownose rays are becoming a bit of a nuisance. They migrate to the bay once a year and are gobbling up oysters. Tournaments have cropped up to eliminate some of the cownose rays and environmentalists are upset.

The world's longest-running TV variety show ends Saturday. For more than half a century, Sabado Gigante loomed large in living rooms across the U.S. and Latin America. Commentator Cynthia Leonor Garza looks back.

Beaches are coated with plastic pellets, and a container full of nitric acid has leaked. Sri Lankan authorities are now making preparations for an oil spill.

The second-largest private employer in the U.S. is making the change as more states are moving to legalize cannabis or introduce laws banning employers from testing for it.