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Screening for lung cancer can catch tumors but it can also produce false positives. Patients need to decide whether it's right for them, but doctors often don't know how to advise them.

Should You Get That Scan? Your Doctor Might Not Be Great At Helping You Decide

In a new study, researchers found that doctors are better at explaining the benefits of a common cancer screening that its potential downsides. But overtesting comes with risks and costs of its own.

Saturday Sports: NFL Preseason, Lindsay Whalen

It's a new season for the NFL but it's facing some of the same controversies. And basketball great Lindsay Whalen may be retiring from playing, but she's not going far.

Mourners and heads of state gathered in Genoa, Italy on Saturday for a state-run funeral to honor victims of the highway bridge collapse on Tuesday. The death toll in the disaster rose to 43 on Saturday.

As Death Toll Rises, Mourners Gather To Honor Victims Of Italian Bridge Collapse

On a national day of mourning in Italy, questions remain about how a highway bridge gave way, killing dozens.

Muslim pilgrims touch the Kaaba stone, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque in Mecca. The hajj begins on Sunday and lasts through Friday, Aug. 24.

Millions Of Muslim Worshipers Flock To Mecca For Hajj

The holy event starts Sunday and lasts until next Friday.

Moises, 17, left, and Jaime look down on the patchwork of neighborhoods outside San Pedro Sula, a city in Honduras where gang rivalries play out. The violence is so bad that "no one goes in" the neighborhoods, says photojournalist Tomas Ayuso. "Food delivery trucks, ambulances don't want to go in because they're afraid something will happen."

PHOTOS: It's Hard To Grow Up — And Grow Old — In Honduras

Photographer Tomas Ayuso captures the plight of Honduran youth struggling to survive in a violent country — and thinking about fleeing to stay alive.

Wisconsin State Rep. David Crowley, right, works with Keisha Robinson, not pictured, of BLOC, Black Leaders Organizing for Communities as he takes part in a silent canvass where Crowley is only allowed to listen to community members like Chrystal Edwards, left, Aug. 7, 2018 Milwaukee.

Wisconsin Political Activists Hope A 'Silent Canvass' Will Win Back Black Voters

Wisconsin Democrats are trying to re-elect Sen. Tammy Baldwin and unseat Gov. Scott Walker. African-Americans are a key part of the coalition necessary to do so.

South Korean calligrapher Yoon Heung-gyu, 92, left his mother and a younger brother and sister behind in North Korea when he fled at age 22. "If I had known that my family would remain separated for this long, I would not have crossed the border," he says. He'll be meeting his sister in North Korea this week.

South Koreans Prepare For Rare Family Reunions With Long-Lost Relatives In The North

With tensions easing between North and South Korea, the two sides are reviving cross-border reunions that began in 1985. On Monday, 93 South Koreans will board buses to visit relatives in the North.

U.S. Prison Inmates To Strike Over Poor Living Conditions

Prisoners in 17 states will strike Tuesday in an effort to draw attention to conditions and what they say are exploitative labor practices. David Greene talks to German Lopez, senior reporter at Vox.

Holding His Breath, Man Breaks Rubik's Cube Record

Vako Marchelashvili, 18, of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, broke the Guinness World Record by solving six Rubik's cubes in one minute and 44 seconds. He did it while under water.

Firefighters deal with heavy smoke as they try to contain flames from the Carr Fire as it spreads toward the town of Douglas City near Redding, Calif.

The Smoke In Redding, Calif., Is So Thick You Can't See The Sun Most Days

Prolonged smoke across the West Coast will affect hundreds of thousands of people living in and around fire-prone areas. Scientists are warning of a lengthening — and worsening — smoke season.

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