Gillian White

Meetings between Democratic and Republican leaders at the White House late this week have sparked some optimism: a GOP offer to extend the debt-ceiling deadline, but not end the government shutdown, is reportedly on the table. As the shutdown pushes…

Former Formula 1 test driver Maria de Villota was found dead in her hotel room in Seville, Spain on Friday. A spokeswoman for the Spanish police told media, "We are assuming it was a natural death, but we cannot confirm anything." Officials also…

In case you forgot, this whole government shutdown initially started with the GOP protesting funding Obamacare. Now, it appears that very protest has actually caused Obamacare to gain popularity. According to a new poll by NBC and the Wall Street…

Looks like the nearly two week-old government shutdown isn't just a drain on American's spirits and wallets: it could also prove hazardous to our health, as evidenced by a recent outbreak of salmonella. On Thursday, the United States Department of…

New details emerging Thursday in the death of Ariel Castro suggest that the convicted kidnapper and rapist may have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide. Castro was found hanging from a bed sheet in his prison cell one month into a life…

Recently unsealed court documents show that two rabbis in New York and New Jersey may have used some decidedly unorthodox techniques to help coerce men into signing divorce papers. Rabbis Mendel Epstein and Martin Wolmark are among a group of four…

A new study is helping to pinpoint when cities across the globe will see a serious change in weather due to global warming — and those temperature swings may be coming sooner than you thought. The study, published in the journal Nature , tells us…

As the government shutdown enters its 10th day, apparently everyone has an opinion on what the incident says about Congress and the Obama administration. Including, um, the Taliban, which has apparently issued a statement expressing their view that…

As usual, California is on the frontier. On Wednesday, Gov. Jerry Brown signed two bills into law that expand access to abortion — the only pro-choice legislation passed in America this year. Assembly Bill 154 addresses the shortage of abortion…