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Carl Zimmer wondered what secrets lurked in his genetic code — so he decided to have his genome sequenced. He writes about the implications of the study of genetics in She Has Her Mother's Laugh.

Author Beth Macy details opioids' odyssey from medicine to scourge, in her book about young heroin users, their long-suffering parents, doctors, drug company executives, cops, judges and drug dealers.

The romantic comedy based on Kevin Kwan's 2013 novel has been saddled with cultural and commercial expectations. Critic Justin Chang was happy to find the film doesn't collapse under the weight.

Despite news about violence in Chicago, the city's crime rate is well below other cities. Even so, officials realize they still must fight the murder capital perception.

Anand Giridharadas spent time with tech entrepreneurs and affluent elites who want to change the world. But in a new book, he writes that their market-based mantras only maintain inequalities.

The Department of Homeland Security said it needed an extra $200 million to detain and deport migrants. Among the cash that covered the shortfall: FEMA funds earmarked for recovery and preparedness.

One year after Myanmar soldiers launched what human rights groups say was a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya are still living in perilous conditions in Bangladesh.

An anonymous newspaper op-ed attributed to a senior official in the Trump administration suggests that some in the Cabinet have contemplated using the 25th Amendment to remove the president.

Low-income residents living near highways and agricultural and industrial zones are getting hit with a "double whammy" as wildfire smoke drifts to areas where the air is often polluted already.

Secretary Wilbur Ross warned Commerce Department officials that they should be "very careful" about "everything" when adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.