The killing of 18 people in California just two days apart — 11 in Monterey Park and seven near Half Moon Bay — are the latest horrors in America’s long history of gun violence. But there is a factor ...

Monday's massacre at a Christian school in Nashville has led to claims about a rise in mass shootings by transgender people. Police have said the shooter, who they identified as 28-year-old Audrey ...

A shooting last weekend at a children's birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year — the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained ...

Installing heat pumps, which use electricity to heat and cool air, is a key part of Massachusetts' plan to get homes off of fossil fuels. (Miriam Wasser/WBUR) The Massachusetts Department of Public ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...

Arie Kruglanski receives funding from the Department of Defense. An acutely troubling aspect of life in contemporary America is the growing proliferation of mass shootings that claim thousands of ...

In Detroit, traditionalist Catholics were bracing for a crackdown. The promise of change in Rome offers them a sliver of hope. By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham reports on religion and last wrote about the ...

Jessica Harvey used to worship in a church with stained glass and a soaring ceiling. The Catholic parish gave Harvey and her family a sense of community as they settled into their new hometown in ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...