The former Senate majority leader has been a close adviser to the president-elect throughout the campaign for the White House and recently wrote a book proposing health care improvements.

Body Odd: A 60-year-old British woman is the first documented case of someone born without the ability to detect familiar voices.

Flight controllers were revamping plans Wednesday for the remaining spacewalks planned during space shuttle Endeavour's visit to the international space station, after a crucial tool bag floated out to space during a repair trip.

The first lady of France can't wait to meet the future first lady of the U.S. "She doesn't look like she needs advice," the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy said. "I think it would probably be better for me to be getting advice from her."

Q&A: Delta Force commander 'Dalton Fury' on the al-Qaeda leader and his loyalists

Thanks to Barack Obama, Japanese comedian Nozomu Sato -- known as "Notchi" -- is having the most successful moment in his 20-year career

What have we learned in the two decades since "Planes, Trains & Automobiles"? And what does it say about this year’s holidays?

With six years until more than a quarter of the nation is over 65, many in Japan are saying that the time has come to welcome more foreign workers into its care sector

Oral Roberts University will lay off about 100 employees, days after it agreed to a near-$450,000 separation agreement with its former president who resigned amid a spending scandal.

Ya'acov Alperon liked to do his muscling the traditional way, with fist and blade. He was assassinated with a new-fangled weapon