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The recent protests in Brazil highlighted poor public transportation services. Now, politicians who rely on frequent helicopter flights, even for short trips, are under scrutiny.

Professor Chris Lowry needed to collect information on stream levels in Western New York but didn't have enough funding for the traditional methods, so he turned to a more creative option: crowdsourcing. Guest host Linda Wertheimer speaks with him about his research and the future of crowdsourcing in scientific inquiries.

The river is expected to peak at around 19 1/2 feet later this weekend, but not before it swallowed up streets, halted all boat traffic and sent rats scurrying through the city.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been traveling this week to push an effort to crack down on crime. Meanwhile, a new report says data undercut claims that the U.S. is experiencing a crime wave.

Lessons in noodle-making is one of the ways that China hopes to eliminate rural poverty by 2020.

Nearly 150 Central America migrants are camped out at the entrance to a U.S. border station in Tijuana, Mexico. U.S. officials say they can only take a limited number of asylum applications.

Refugees are fleeing to try to get health care. And disease outbreaks across Latin America are being linked back to Venezuela.

The clock is ticking for lawmakers to repeal the bailouts that are part of an alleged $61 million bribery scheme. They only have a few weeks before new charges appear on customers' electric bills.

Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic renew a great rivalry at Wimbledon, and NBA free agency madness.

Echoing comments made Monday by President Obama, Attorney Gen. Eric Holder also said that even if no laws were broken it was "outrageous" for the IRS to focus on groups who identified themselves as "patriots" or "tea party" supporters when they applied for tax-exempt status.