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Human trafficking happens behind locked doors in hotels across the United States. The hospitality industry is being taught to recognize the signs of abuse.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced major reforms to the state's child protection agency Monday after recent tragedies, including the case of Baby Bella, the toddler whose body washed up on the shore of Boston Harbor.

My mother used to tell me that sunlight is the best disinfectant. When you shut the doors to a courtroom, you shut out the sunlight that keeps our judicial system clean and honest. Americans should be deeply concerned at any effort to bar the public -- which includes the media - from knowing what's going on inside the courts.

Massachusetts teenager Michelle Carter faces charges of involuntary manslaughter after allegedly texting her online boyfriend and urging him to commit suicide.

CNN's Elizabeth Cohen explains what you need to know about naegleria fowleri, more commonly known as brain-eating amoeba, found in warm fresh water.

Throughout the history of capital punishment in America, states have reviewed and revised execution methods in the interest of finding a more "humane" option.

Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy were one of history's power couples, a dashing Democrat and an elegant wife. Take a look at photos of the couple's love story.

Last week, we learned that hackers allegedly working for the Chinese government breached personal information of some 4 million current and former federal employees. This latest episode is shocking in its scope, but security experts have long known about China's military-level cyberoffensive capabilities, with reports of an entire division of its army being devoted to cyberattacks.

Brittany Jacobs and her son, Christian, visit the grave of Marine Sgt. Christopher James Jacobs who died in a training accident in 2011.

Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez was found guilty of murdering semi-pro player Odin Lloyd, the boyfriend of his fiancee's sister, in 2013.

If you drove by it, you wouldn't even know it's there.

A jury of Rolling Stone's media peers has dissected the magazine's disastrous, discredited story about rape on the campus of the University of Virginia, and the emerging consensus is that Rolling Stone's lapses and sloppy blunders amount to journalistic malpractice -- made all the worse by the magazine's head-in-the sand reaction to the thorough, devastating report released by a panel of investigators from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

A scathing report charges Rolling Stone magazine with stunning mistakes over its story about rape on a college campus. So why was no one fired?

Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll comments on the investigation into Rolling Stone's controversial article about an alleged gang rape at UVA.

Ted Rowlands explains the fascination with Charles Manson and the brutal crimes he inspired.

It's the picture we needed to see after the past week's turmoil.

When I think of the ultimate sex workout, I picture the scene from "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie throw each other around their kitchen for an hour. Unfortunately, not every sexual experience is quite that... well, high-intensity. But how many calories do we really burn in the act?

I am 17 years old and a senior in high school. I am also, like thousands of other people living on this planet, sick.

October 22 will mark 25 years since my son Jacob was taken from his family as he rode his bike home with his brother and a friend on a rural Minnesota road.

During the 10 years since it's launch, Cassini has revealed much about Saturn.