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May 8, 2008 It is estimated that 1.3 million children run away from home each year. According to a recent report from the Associated Press on 1800-RUNAWAY, a federally funded hotline for kids, the number of calls received has increased nearly 80 percent this decade.
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May 7, 2008 For 30 years, it's been against the law to discriminate against pregnant women for jobs.
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May 5, 2008 Some may see the strong but tragic race of Eight Belles, the filly that was euthanized after the Kentucky Derby, as an omen for the Clinton campaign.
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May 2, 2008 Ever since he was killed in Afghanistan, the story of Pat Tillman has cast a shadow over the U.S. military.
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May 1, 2008 The government is sending out tax rebate checks, and if you haven't gotten yours yet, you soon will.
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Apr 30, 2008 Eighty five percent of teenagers use text messages, IM, and e-mail on a daily basis. But that vernacular is creeping into the classroom.
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Apr 29, 2008 The Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to be protecting the environment, and the rest of us, from dangerous chemicals. But a new study - which we first reported on the Evening News last night - raises serious questions about that.
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Apr 28, 2008 Between soaring gas prices, mortgage foreclosures and political squabbling, we could all use a little good news. Yesterday, we got some. An 18-year-old man in England who was almost completely blind can now see, thanks to a gene-therapy trial.
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Apr 25, 2008 In the seventy years since Gallup started conducting presidential approval polls, no president has had a higher disapproval rating than George W. Bush's today. According to Gallup and USA Today, 69 percent of Americans disapprove of the job President Bush is doing. The previous record was set by Harry Truman in January 1952. There are some parallels between these two men.
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Apr 24, 2008 On a warm, sunny day like today it's easy to forget all about those cold nights standing in the snow in Iowa in the leadup to its caucuses. But the winter of the Democrats' discontent is far from over. Party divisions seem more pronounced than they were in the early races.
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Apr 23, 2008 CBS News Correspondent Bianca Solorzano has some thoughts on a worrying government report that finds 15 percent of adults have admitted driving under the influence
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Apr 22, 2008 If Hillary Clinton does what polls suggest she might and easily wins today's Pennsylvania primary, she'll be like the cat with multiple lives. Three times in this campaign, Barack Obama seemed like Mr. Momentum. By winning in New Hampshire, in California, or in Ohio, he might have pushed Clinton out of the race. And three times, the voters pulled back, and Obama failed to win.
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Apr 21, 2008 Here's some welcome news for anyone dreading that next birthday: You're not getting older...you're getting happier. Researchers at the University of Chicago reported as much last week.
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Apr 18, 2008 For all those people who complain "There oughta be a law," here's one for you: France is considering a landmark bill that would make it illegal to promote extreme thinness.
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Apr 17, 2008 A major health issue is affecting one fifth of the troops who have served in Iraq. Even more alarming is the fact that only half of these men and women are seeking medical attention. CBS News Correspondent Katie Couric has more.
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Apr 16, 2008 The pope is in the United States for an historic six-day visit. Comparisons to John Paul II are inevitable ... and it looks like Benedict's reception may not be quite as warm as his predecessor's. There is a shadow over Pope Benedict's tour, but it isn't just the memory of the charismatic John Paul.
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Apr 15, 2008 Wednesday marks the first anniversary of the massacre at Virginia Tech, which took the lives of 33 students and faculty members, including the gunman, and became the worst campus shooting in U.S. history.
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Apr 14, 2008 April may be "the cruelest month," but T.S. Elliott might be heartened to know that it's also National Poetry Month. I've been an enthusiastic consumer of poetry since I was a little girl. So click the monitor for more from my Notebook. And I promise, it's in free verse.
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Apr 11, 2008 Just when you thought flying couldn't get worse, it did. This week, hundreds of thousands of Americans found themselves grounded and frustrated when the country's biggest airline had to fix wiring in its jets
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Apr 10, 2008 Nowadays the words "bow tie" are most often preceded by "what's with the..." They're no longer the norm, not even at formal affairs. It seems the only people still wearing them were James Bond and Crusty the Clown. But The New York Times reports that those knots are landing again.
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Apr 9, 2008 As Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill, his message is clear: He will not endorse any further withdrawal of troops. That means many American troops will be facing third, or even fourth combat tours. That can mean a lot of stress on soldiers and their families.
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Apr 8, 2008 Today marks the beginning of two days of Congressional testimony on Iraq. You might not know it, but there are actually two men speaking today> Next to top military man General Petraeus is Ambassador Ryan Crocker. Political progress is his job - and that's just as important as military progress.
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Apr 7, 2008 According to the medical journal Pediatrics, one in fifteen children who are hospitalized are victims of various medical mishaps such as accendental overdoses or drug reactions.
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Apr 4, 2008 Katie Couric discusses the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Junior's assasination and race relations in the United States today.
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Apr 3, 2008 Two scientists this week reported that most of our ideas about how much water we should drink ... don't really hold water.
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Apr 2, 2008 This morning, the chairman of the Federal Reserve confirmed what a lot of Americans already know: The economy is in critical condition.
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Apr 1, 2008 Today's report on high school graduation rates is really unsettling. The report found that over one million students drop out every year. Big cities such as Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland all have graduation rates of less than than 50 percent.
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Mar 31, 2008 The two highest offices in the country are filled in very different ways. While the electorate and electoral college picks the president, the vice president is picked by an electorate of one. For more on the process of choosing a VP.
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Mar 28, 2008 What do Sharon Stone, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Madonna all have in common? Yes, they're all blonde ... even if they didn't start out that way. But they're also each turning fifty this year. Fifty has never looked better.
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Mar 27, 2008 The little blue pill has a big anniversary this week. It's been 10 years since Pfizer introduced Viagra to the market. Now, the once-taboo pill is a household name, with ubiquitous commercials.
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Mar 26, 2008 A new study suggests that the more you spend on something, the more you'll enjoy it. Researchers concluded that what we experience has a lot to do with our expectations.
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Mar 25, 2008 The Olympic Torch has begun its journey around the world. The flame will visit 22 cities and five continents before it arrives in Beijing, but it is already shining a light on some big obstacles ahead.
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Mar 24, 2008 Now that John McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee, some of his toughest critics are not on his left, but on his right. Prominent conservatives are criticizing his "ideological impurity." But since when is it a weakness to cooperate with other parties?
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Mar 21, 2008 With the advent of World Water Day, millions of children around the world need access to clean drinking water. It's one investment that will never go down the drain.
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Mar 20, 2008 Hello, neighbor! It's "Sweater Day" in Pittsburgh, Mr. Rogers' hometown. On what would have been his 80th birthday, it's a chance to honor his life and career. But Fred Rogers was much more than an entertainer. To hear more of his story, just click on my Notebook.
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Mar 19, 2008 Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war. This morning, the President said the mission was "noble" and "necessary". But, according to our latest CBS News poll, only 29 percent of Americans agree. It's easy to say the war wasn't worth it. What's hard is developing a responsible path forward.
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Mar 18, 2008 Remember The Graduate? Dustin Hoffman's character, just back from college, was told that the key to his success was in one word: plastics. Today, that one word might be engineering. Across the country, thousands of schools now teach chemical, computer, and environmental engineering. Next year, those concepts will be added to
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Mar 17, 2008 On St. Patrick's Day, people like to salute the luck of the Irish. But there's one area where they may not be so lucky. The apostrophe. All those O'Connors, O'Malley's, and O'Briens are finding that a lot of computers are simply baffled by the apostrophe.
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Mar 14, 2008 It's a trend that has a lot of doctors alarmed. More women with breast cancer, who could be treated with a lumpectomy, are choosing instead to have the breast removed - and often the other, healthy, one as well. But is it worth it?
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Mar 13, 2008 It's no secret that kids in America aren't doing well in math. Today, a panel that was appointed by President Bush offered a solution to get kids back on track. CBS News Correspondent Bianca Solorzano reports.
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Mar 12, 2008 Anyone who heard the news couldn't help but be shocked: According to the CDC, one in four teenage girls in America has a sexually transmitted disease, or STD.
More shocking still: Fully half of girls between the ages of 14 and 19 say they've had sex.
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Mar 11, 2008 Anyone who saw the pictures from yesterday's news conference with New York governor Eliot Spitzer may have felt a little deja vu. There he was: an elected official, apologizing for an embarrassing, possibly even criminal act on national television. And there beside him stood the other person who will be affected the most: his wife.
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Mar 10, 2008 An Oscar-winning documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side" deserves your attention. It recounts the treatment of "enemy combatants" in both Afghanistan and Iraq and the complete lack of guidance by senior officials at the Pentagon and beyond.
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Mar 7, 2008 Sunday marks the start of Daylight Saving Time, which means we "spring forward" to gain an hour of daylight ... but lost an hour of sleep. And Americans just got a wake-up call from the National Sleep Foundation.
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Mar 6, 2008 Educating Americans about this disease has been a passion of mine ever since my husband, Jay, died of colon cancer 10 years ago.
Here's the drill: colon cancer is more than 90 percent curable if detected early. So, getting a colonoscopy could be a lifesaving experience.
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Mar 5, 2008 Polls have dominated so much of this year's campaign coverage. They shape TV and newspaper stories about who's ahead and who's behind. Polls can be helpful, but relying on them too much is downright dangerous.
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