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Efforts to make the world’s biggest music festival sustainable affect everything from trash pickup to wheelchair access to child safety. Is it possible for 200,000+ campers to "leave no trace?"

Many loved ones of the nearly 3,000 people killed will join dignitaries and politicians at commemorations Thursday in New York, at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

At the height of the Ebola outbreak in Monrovia, one woman stood at the gates of a hospital, turning away patient after patient. The hospital had 100 beds for Ebola patients; all of them were full.

Leroy Peoples, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, served 780 consecutive days in isolation.

It's the day after Thanksgiving and shoppers have been lining up outside stores for Black Friday sales. Some have been waiting for days. There are ways around standing in line.

Since 2012, Our Walmart, an employee labor group, has been staging strikes on the day after Thanksgiving. The group wants workers to get more full-time jobs and make a living wage of $15 an hour.

Besides avoiding ladders, mirrors, black cats and salt, here are two things you can do to make it through what some people think is the unluckiest of days.

Are United States hospitals equipped to handle a flu pandemic or a major terrorist attack? Stephen Flynn, author of The Edge of Disaster, sizes up the United States medical system and finds it sorely lacking.

Most deaths were in Lee County, where local officials delayed hurricane evacuations until the day before the storm hit. Leaders in other nearby counties ordered evacuations a day earlier.

Lt. Col. Chris Richardella was one of the officers leading the U.S. Marine Corps at the Kabul airport when the Taliban took over. In the second of a two-part conversation, he recounts what followed.