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Evidence shows hospice care can extend life and save money, but only if patients and doctors dare ask for the help. One New Yorker said hospice gave her back life at peace, pain subdued.

Author Ahmed Rashid talks to Steve Inskeep about how Pakistan's political climate helped to foster Tuesday's horrific attack on a school in Peshawar. More than 140 people were killed.

The adjournment brought the 113th Congress to a formal close. Democrat Harry Reid ended his run as majority leader, as Republicans take control of the Senate next month.

The Citizens Utility Board and AARP are joining forces to prevent the phone industry from ending landline service statewide.The two Tuesday launched the…

Many of Illinois' top politicians will pay their respects to the late Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka at a memorial service today (Wed., Dec. 17). Topinka...

Fat can be breathed out as carbon dioxide as well as burned off. That’s according to a study in the British Medical Journal.Results from the study show…

Northern Illinois University began demolition for Douglas Hall, which housed students from 1963 to May. Officials say the removal is part of a $4.5…

Illinois residents are being warned about a phone scam where victims are told there's a warrant for their arrest because of missed jury duty. They're also…

The families of the victims began to bury their dead, and people across the country held prayer services to remember the 145 killed in a Taliban attack on a school.

The U.S. and Cuba will start talks on normalizing relations and discuss opening a U.S. Embassy in Havana. Also today, Cuba freed USAID contractor Alan Gross on humanitarian grounds.