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For Americans abroad, Thanksgiving is a time for fond memories, good meals and making-do.

How people sit or where their arms and legs are in the images they share loom large in potential daters' calculations, according to experiments involving speed dating and an online dating app.

Lead, the "useful metal," was the pride of the Romans. For the last 5,000 years, it was used in products ranging from water pipes and makeup to wine — until we discovered how poisonous it is.

Scott Simon talks with Councilmember Dan Garodnick about his support of a bill that would limit the movement of people in costumes in New York City's Times Square.

At the National Senior Games, the women who make up She-Ca-Go, a team in the 75-to-79 age division, are still in it for the camaraderie and competition. The games finish a two-week run in Cleveland on Thursday.

Each summer, thousands of security researchers, hacktivists, black hats, white hats and feds descend on Las Vegas for Black Hat and Def Con. A look at the stories and trends we're keeping an eye on.

Mary Hamilton, arrested at an Alabama protest, refused to answer the judge unless he called her "Miss." It was custom for white people to get honorifics, but black people were called by first names.

The newest addition to the National Mall is a monument honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Host Michel Martin discusses King's legacy and the memorial's meaning with Martin King III, the oldest son of the slain civil rights leader; and former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young, a King confidant.

Abortion has been unavailable in Kentucky for more than a week, after a new state law took effect that puts layers of new requirements on providers.

Students from Fremont High School in South-Central Los Angeles recently toured the Museum of Tolerance -- a facility founded by noted humanitarian, Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal -- after several recent racially charged incidents on the campus.