The national conversation about red-light cameras keeps simmering while their legal status grows murkier.

As 18-year-old Giovana Frediani and her friends stood in front of the mirror to prep for a night out, one girl turned around and complained that her backside was getting big.

The NFL’s so-called bounty scandal deepened Thursday when audio surfaced of a former New Orleans Saints coach encouraging players to injure specific opponents during a playoff game. Jeffrey Brown discusses the latest revelations and the fallout with The Washington Post’s Mike Wise and Northeastern University’s Dan Lebowitz.

Since the economic downturn, one of the biggest problems for recent college graduates has been a dearth of real-world job experience. They may have degrees from well-respected institutions, but many have been unable to get jobs because employers would rather choose workers with experience in their industries.

Whether it’s a cat video or a news story, what is a Twitter post’s likelihood to spread? The answer has more to do with the structure of the network and our limited attention spans than the content or author, says an Indiana University study.

Armed with a .45 caliber handgun and carrying four loaded magazines, a disgruntled One L. Goh returned to his former school with a mission to kill, prosecutors say.

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The general-election campaign finally, definitively got under way on Tuesday, when Mitt Romney won Republican primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia, and all but snuffed out Rick Santorum’s increasingly outlandish hopes.

The best policy for the oil companies is to find a way to swap debts related to Iran, U.S. Northeastern University Professor Kamran Dadkhah told Trend.

A former nursing student suspected of fatally shooting seven people and wounding three Monday at a small Christian university in Oakland began planning his attack after school officials expelled him in January, police said.

Oakland is reeling after a gun rampage at a small religious college left seven people dead. Six months ago, eight people died in a shooting in Seal Beach, California. And just over a year ago, an attack targeting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona left six dead and 13 injured.

In the 2011 blockbuster thriller Contagion, a virus infects and kills 26 million people around the world. But even those who evade the virus are infected with something else: crippling fear.