Learning the name of a color changes the part of the brain that handles color perception.

Calling climate change an urgent challenge, President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday that Washington would take a leading role in combating it in the United States and throughout the world.

ESPN will broadcast 15 Bowl Championship Series games from 2011 to 2014.

Massachusetts’ top securities regulator on Tuesday accused Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. of fraud over the investment bank’s sales of auction-rate securities to customers who couldn’t access their money after the market for the risky investments froze.

Hip-hop mogul Marion “Suge” Knight is facing felony drug charges and a misdemeanor battery charge in Las Vegas.

A man whose groin was disfigured by a flesh-eating bacteria infection in prison has accepted a $300,000 settlement from the Washington Department of Corrections.

A Democratic senator says Democrats are letting Sen. Joe Lieberman keep his prized chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite supporting Republican John McCain for president.

Oil prices fluctuated Tuesday even as the government reported that gasoline prices recorded their largest drop ever in October and prices for home heating oil, natural gas, and liquefied petroleum gas fell substantially.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress on Tuesday that the administration remains firmly opposed to dipping into the government’s $700 billion financial bailout fund for a $25 billion rescue package for Detroit’s Big Three automakers, no matter how badly they need the help.

A day after giving the National League’s Most Valuable Player honor to Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ends its postseason awards run today by naming the American League MVP. Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia, Twins first baseman Justin Morneau and Angels reliever Francisco Rodriguez are expected to be among those drawing support.