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Rescuers were scrambling Monday to find missing people in Concepcion, Chile's second largest city and one of the places worst hit by Saturday's earthquake. Aid groups are struggling to get food distribution going and police are trying to keep looting under control. Reporter Annie Murphy offers her insight.

President Obama held Thursday his much-anticipated health care summit. The daylong back-and-forth didn't produce much bipartisan agreement, something neither side expected. But it did illuminate at least one thing: how both parties see the stakes in the health care debate.

Artist and Vietnam veteran Michael Reagan draws piercingly realistic portraits of American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. So far, he has drawn about 2,000 of the 4,300 Americans killed in those wars. And he has found himself filling a deep need for the grieving families — and for himself.

The Vatican is facing a new round of charges that leaders in the church hierarchy tried to cover up allegations that some priests abused children, but the cases involved date back decades. Here's a timeline of key events.

The 25-year-old nursing student vanished after calling 911 and a family member to report seeing a young child wandering along the side of an interstate in Alabama.

Extreme temperatures present a significant challenge to AC systems, which engineers and installers say are really only designed to keep indoor temperatures about 20 degrees cooler than outside.

Late in his career, Giuseppe Verdi hit a dry patch until friends suggested he try transforming Shakespeare's Othello into an opera. The result, Otello, turned out to be one of the best operas ever written.

Travis King crossed the border into North Korea on Tuesday, becoming the first U.S. service member to do so since 1982. A handful of American soldiers defected in the years after the Korean War.

Federal public defenders face a looming budget crisis that threatens their ability to represent indigent people accused of crimes.

Once the Apple of its day, Polaroid has fallen by the wayside, thanks to digital photography. Now, with a revamped image and an alliance with self-marketing dynamo Lady Gaga, it's trying to be the oldest new trend.