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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley found the part of the brain that enables good decisions gets hazy after an all-nighter. The part that craves rewards is revved up for more.

Some fans are upset about Discovery Channel's report on Megalodon, the monster shark. Meanwhile, a Roomba-riding feline that wears a shark costume is back on YouTube.

Amnesty International, which released the images, says the widespread devastation is "severely lopsided" in opposition-controlled parts of the city. It says Aleppo was targeted by the government for "indiscriminate air bombardment."

Two men who were holding hands on a bus at the Albuquerque International Sunport have received an apology for the way the driver treated them. "We were just on vacation in New Mexico," Ron McCoy says. "We weren't trying to be Rosa Parks."

There's been a lot of talk about immigration reform on Capitol Hill this summer. But scam artists are not waiting for a new law to pass before luring unsuspecting immigrants with the possibility of gaining legal status. Local consumer protection agencies are trying to prevent immigrants from becoming fraud victims.

The mayor of an Arizona border town and the head of the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition weigh in on plans to beef up security along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Major League Soccer's best players take on Italy's A.S. Roma at the All-Star Game in in Kansas City tonight. It's tough to get a ticket for the match, but the same can be said for Kansas City's regular games.

In Missouri, under a law recently upheld by the state's Supreme Court, students attending schools in districts that don't meet baseline education standards can transfer to another district, at no cost to their parents.

Host Bob Boilen is on a Newport Folk Festival high, but Robin Hilton is here to harsh Bob's mellow.

If you had a traumatic memory lodged in your brain, would you zap it away if you could? In the wake of last week's news that false memories were implanted in laboratory mice, commentator Barbara J. King considers the potential effects of intervening with memory formation in our own brains.