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President Barack Obama announced Monday he will nominate former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.

Health officials say this flu season is shaping up to be one of the more severe in recent years.

Ten major banks and mortgage companies have agreed to pay to settle complaints that they wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners who should have been allowed to stay in their homes.

Astronomers estimate one in six stars in our galaxy has a planet the size of Earth orbiting it.

Nearly six months after bloody rampage in a Colorado movie theater left 12 people dead, prosecutors are going to court to outline their case against suspect James Holmes.

The Supreme Court won't stop the government's funding of embryonic stem cell research, despite some researchers' complaints that the work relies on destroyed human embryos.

A Royal Dutch Shell drill ship that was pulled from rocks off a remote Alaska island is approaching shelter in a protected Kodiak Island bay.

Congressional Republicans and Democrats are drawing lines in the sand they say they'll never cross when it comes to the U.S. debt limit.

A federal judge has ruled that a trial is needed to determine whether a Kansas law restricting private health insurance coverage for abortions poses a substantial obstacle to women seeking to end their pregnancies.

The U.S. Secretary of State returned to the State Department after a month-long absence.