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Tom speaks with Patricia Meisol who chronicles the life of barrier breaking pediatrician Helen Brooke Taussig in "A Heart Afire."

The first presidential debate, hosted by CNN in Atlanta, Georgia, saw the two leading candidates take the stage across from each other.

We go On the Record with the Baltimore City mayor’s office to ask how they plan to spend more than $242 million dollars in opioid overdose restitution funds -- and if there will be more?

The two leading candidates running for presidential office took to the stage last night to offer competing visions of the future of the United States.

The Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative (BSEC) measures the health of air, water, soil and trees across the city. What will they do with the information?

We talk with JHU Prof. Martha S. Jones about a very personal meditation on her own family, and her own experience navigating a color line she describes as jagged, shifting and threatening.

Researchers in Syria have discovered what appears to be evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. We ask Hopkins archeologist Glenn Schwartz about clay etchings excavated from a tomb.

Colorectal cancer cases among Americans age 55 and younger nearly doubled between 1995 and 2019. Why? What can people do to lower their risk?

In The Trouble of Color, a historian explores America's color line and how racial classification impacts Black families and identity.

Evolutionary biologist Nathan Lents examines 500 million years of sex, gender, and mating in many different species.

Some Baltimore residents can get free solar power and job training from Civic Works!

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson's 2012 compensation was mostly the payout of a retention package, but she still would have made close to a million without it.

Bob Schieffer, anchor of CBS' Face the Nation, retires Sunday after 46 years at the network. NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans says Schieffer is the last among a vanished breed of traditional news anchors.

It's distortionary. It's regressive. And right now it only benefits a sliver of taxpayers and nonprofits. It's time to talk about the charitable deduction.

Just 10 people were major donors to the former Rhode Island governor's quixotic campaign. We asked them why.

The president's press secretary said a plan the White House is pushing would mean taxing goods from Mexico 20 percent to pay for the wall. That would mean American consumers would foot the bill.

At Midsummer, some believe the veils between the worlds part and magic's hold on us grows stronger. For the solstice, reviewer Bobbi Dumas recommends five books with her favorite mix: love and magic.

ANALYSIS: The president was brisk and confident during Tuesday night's State of the Union address. He also managed to avoid a remarkable array of issues that could have proved problematic. But he hasn't been nearly as adept at the less-dramatic business of dealing with Congress and the media.

Saxophone player Benny Golson played with jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey, and wrote music for the TV shows M*A*S*H and Mission Impossible.

Bass improviser Richard Davis, trombonist Curtis Fowlkes and saxophonists Charles Gayle and Peter Brötzmann are among the notable musicians we lost this year.