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Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense who was vilified for prosecuting America's most controversial war and then devoted himself to helping the world's poorest nations, died Monday.

Luis Benguria of Spain signs a poster at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The venue is the planned location for late pop star Michael Jackson's memorial service scheduled for Tuesday.

A Missouri native had his lifelong dream realized this year when he became part of the 2009 class of NASA astronauts.

The most important group of religious leaders in Iran has called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate, an act of defiance against the country's supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in the country's clerical establishment.

Lenoar "Len" Foster, newly appointed interim dean of the Washington State University College of Education, died unexpectedly late Thursday or early Friday at his home in Pullman.

The newest revolution in microbiology testing walks on four legs and says 'baa'. It's the hair sheep, a less-hirsute version of the familiar woolly barnyard resident.

Michael brings extensive solar industry experience to Pacific Edison. In this role, Michael will be responsible for developing large-scale renewable energy projects on behalf of key strategic clients both domestically and internationally.

Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster in U.S. history, claiming the lives of more than 1,800 victims and causing well over $100 billion in damage along the Gulf Coast.

Republicans better hope the Democrats screw up sometime soon. Without the party in power self-destructing, Republicans will likely face a tough time in the next two elections, according to two political experts speaking Wednesday at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have played a major role in an international effort that has shown, for the first time, that modern genetic technologies can solve the riddle of how gene variations lead to schizophrenia.

A molecule called telomerase, best known for enabling unlimited cell division of stem cells and cancer cells, has a surprising additional role in the expression of genes in an important stem cell regulatory pathway, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Peter Mondavi Sr. of Charles Krug Winery is one of three wine luminaries who will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the California State Fair this year.

In the term that ended Monday, the Supreme Court shifted more to the right, making it harder for people to bring civil rights claims, rejecting challenges by environmentalists and raising the standard for older workers alleging bias on the job.

Five-phase stage-gate model captures process complexity from product ideation through postmarket surveillance WASHINGTON, DC-In an effort to increase understanding of the medical device development process and help companies execute the bench-to-bedside process of product development more effectively, researchers at Stanford University have ...

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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu speaks at the Marriott hotel in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, June 25, 2009.

Gains in math and reading test scores for Arkansas open-enrollment charter school students were significantly better than the ones for their peers in traditional public schools.

The first two are easy, but sending a voice signal 239,200 miles to the moon and back is not quite as simple.

Palo Alto Online News A San Mateo County Superior Court judge will decide Wednesday whether a Colorado doctor sentenced to nine months in jail for illegally prescribing anti-depressants to a Stanford University student who later committed suicide will serve his sentence in California or Colorado.

When Elizabeth Dean was four, her mother took her out of kindergarten to teach her at home because she could already read the children's classic "Charlotte's Web" while the other kids were just learning how to write the letter "C". That was 10 years ago and homeschooling was "still on the fringe of acceptability", Elizabeth's mother Lisa Dean told ...