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Tehlor Kay Mejia's debut novel We Set the Dark on Fire is set at a posh girls' school in a dystopian world where the students are being trained for lives as political consorts to powerful men.

When Salvador Dalí met Harpo Marx, he was so infatuated that he wrote a treatment for a surreal Marx Brothers film, Giraffes on Horseback Salad. The film didn't fly, but this graphic novel does.

The Pentagon is investigating the Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan over his ties to Boeing. Before serving as deputy and now acting defense secretary, Shanahan was a Boeing executive.

Many Democrats are focused on winning back white, working-class voters. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, an emerging 2020 candidate, has been reaching out to voters of color in big cities.

As the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing approaches, we look at one of humankind’s most audacious efforts, and whether a 21st century moonshot is worth aiming for.

President Trump now says he would alert the FBI if a foreign power offered him dirt on a political opponent.

For her new book, Lisa Taddeo spent nearly a decade immersed in the sex lives of three women. She says desire is one of the things we think about the most, and it's time to talk about women's desires.

Navy hospital corpsman James Edward Brown wasn't far from U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 that were the target of a terrorist attack. At StoryCorps, Brown remembers what he saw that day.

CBS News is changing the lineup of its flagship shows: CBS This Morning and CBS Evening News — amid rating concerns, and fallout from sexual harassment revelations.

Coal-fired power plants keep closing, and communities around the country must decide what to do with those sites. Pennsylvania has a plan, aiming to create new jobs where old ones have been lost.