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The Food and Drug Administration will not be removing age restrictions for the Plan B One Step pill — a decision that's likely to prolong a fight that has raged for more than eight years.

Jerry Sandusky was arrested again after new charges of sexual molestation surfaced.

Newt Gingrich has risen to the top of the polls at a pivotal moment. With less than one month until the Iowa Caucuses, he has a double-digit lead in the state. Political junkie Ken Rudin and columnist Michael Gerson talk about how the field of GOP candidates is faring in the final stretch.

Despite news of terrorist bombings, U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and crackdowns in Syria, two recent books argue the world has never seen so little war and violence. Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Joshua Goldstein, author of Winning the War on War, discuss.

A turning point in World War II came in June 1942, when the U.S. surprised and defeated the Japanese in the Battle of Midway. That victory was possible, in large part, because of the work of a little-known naval codebreaker named Joe Rochefort. Elliot Carlson tells his story in Joe Rochefort's War.

Michele Zagaria is the head of one of the bloodiest clans of the Neapolitan mafia. He had been one of Italy's most wanted.

A new report by the Environmental Working Group finds that the vast majority of popular cereals marketed to kids exceed guidelines that call for no more than 26 percent added sugar by weight.

Mitt Romney had a handy counterargument for all those who have called him a political flip flopper: his apparent steadfastness in all his personal commitments, like his 42-year marriage to his wife Anne. Turns out, that argument can do double duty since it helps Romney draw a contrast with Newt Gingrich who is on his third marriage.

Eurozone leaders are debating new rules. The question is — how will they enforce them?

Robert Siegel speaks with Robert Holmes, Boston Globe high school sports editor, about the controversial call on Massachusetts high school football player Matt Owens. Owens raised his arm at the 24-yard line as he ran for a touchdown during a game, but the touchdown was nullified because Owens displayed unsportsmanlike conduct.