Peggy Pauly, standing in front of leach ponds from a World War II-era copper mine in Nevada, helped secure EPA testing that tied dangerous levels of uranium and arsenic in drinking water to the site. Full story
Democrats secure the 60 votes needed to overcome key hurdle. Full story
Fort Hood suspect cited financial transfers.
Police say a woman has died after being struck along with nine children by a car outside an Alabama middle school.
A military magistrate rules that the Army psychiatrist charged in one of the worst mass shootings on a U.S. military base will be held until trial.
NBC's Green Week culminates Sunday at 8 p.m. ET with the premiere on MSNBC Cable of "100 Heartbeats." Watch the start of the journey led by naturalist Jeff Corwin to help curb a rising rate of extinctions.
Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan exchanged e-mails with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers, according to two sources.
A record number of Afghan war deaths in October has forced the U.S. to take new notice of Afghanistan as debate rages over whether President Obama should send tens of thousands more troops.
A billboard showing President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership that put it up.
Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often "illusory and deceitful."
The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free Thanksgiving dinners across New York — meals cooked by a ritzy caterer and cleaned up by employees of one of Wall Street's most vilified financial firms.
Disparities in gifted schooling exist in every state, according to the National Association for Gifted Children, which blames low federal funding and a focus on low-performing students.
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