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The Secret Service confirmed Monday that a third uninvited guest made it into the White House state dinner in November. The development comes amid an investigation into how an uninvited Virginia couple made their way into the party and shook hands with the president and several other dignitaries.

In the past decade, more than a dozen young athletes who died during vigorous workouts were found to have the sickle cell trait. Some health experts are concerned the required screening could lead to black students with the trait being singled out and excluded from sports.

The small town of Thomson, Ill., will in the future be home to some of the most high-profile detainees in the world. The White House announced Tuesday that the Thomson Correctional Center will house some terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay.

The joke used to be that some women went to college to get their M.R.S. — that is, a husband. But a study by the Pew Research Center finds that women today are more likely to marry men who have lower education levels and lower income levels than they do.

In his book Freefall, economist Joseph Stiglitz gives Washington bad grades for its responses to the nation's economic crises. The Nobel laureate says the government has been using its lending capacity to help banks, not ordinary people, stay afloat.

Science writer Shankar Vedantam says we often function on autopilot — without even knowing it. His new book, The Hidden Brain, explores how unconscious biases color our decisions even when we think we are acting rationally.

In a sweeping decision, the Supreme Court struck down Thursday the ban on corporate spending on federal and state elections. The much-anticipated opinion opens the way potentially for hundreds of millions of dollars to be spent on this year's midterm elections.

Johnson, the woman behind the Johnson Publishing Co. and the director of the company's Ebony Fashion Fair, died on Sunday at age 93. Andre Leon Talley remembers Johnson and her impact on the world of fashion, cosmetics and the arts.

FBI agents are interviewing five young Muslim-American men being held in Pakistan. They suspect the men may have been trying to join forces fighting U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

In the wake of the financial scandal that destroyed Enron, Congress created an independent board to watch over the accounting of all publicly traded firms. In order that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board have total independence from political influence, Congress deemed that its members be appointed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The court heard arguments Monday that challenge whether Congress went too far and overstepped the Separation of Powers clause of the Constitution.