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NEW YORK — Sen. Charles Schumer is urging airlines to allow families with young children to sit together without paying extra.The New York Democrat is…

New Orleans police say a 29-year-old man died after falling into a canal near Irish Bayou in New Orleans East.Officer Garry Flot, a police spokesman, says…

A federal task force's recommendations against routine blood tests for prostate cancer raises big questions about how to interpret medical evidence and what role expert panels should play in how doctors practice. But those questions aren't easy to answer.

On Memorial Day, many of us flip burgers, spear hot dogs, and whack a ketchup bottle trying to coax a stubborn glob of the stuff out and onto the bun. Now, a team of scientists at MIT has decided that this ketchup-to-bottle adhesion is a problem that must be fixed. Melissa Block talks with doctoral MIT student Adam Paxson about a solution some researchers have developed.

Americans marked Memorial Day across the country on Monday. Melissa Block details services held at Arlington Cemetery and the Vietnam War Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., that were attended by President Barack Obama. There was also a tribute in San Diego featuring GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.

Melissa Block looks ahead to this week's tech news with Steve Henn.

Climatologists call it a "flash drought," a sudden, unexpected burst of high temperatures and low humidity that can wither crops in a matter of days. And with temperatures hovering above 90 degrees, farmers worry the weather could have disastrous consequences on corn and other crops.

Melissa Block talks with Doug Robson, tennis reporter for USA Today, about the French Open competition this year.

In 1886, Ottmar Mergenthaler invented a machine that could create an entire line of type at once. It was called the linotype and it revolutionized the way we communicate.

We think of the Russian master as a novelist and short-story writer. But the subversive genius who penned Lolita was a deft and powerful poet, too — as the first new collection of his verse in more than 30 years proves.