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Richard Nixon signs the National Cancer Act at the White House on Dec. 23, 1972. It provided $1.6 billion to find the causes of cancer and find new treatments.

50 years ago, Nixon gave the U.S. a 'Christmas present,' launching the war on cancer

The idea for a cancer "moonshot" did not originate with President Biden. Medical philanthropist Mary Lasker gets much of the credit. She was the first to push the idea 50 years ago.

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand play Shakespeare's famously murderous couple in <em>The Tragedy of Macbeth.</em>

This 'Macbeth' adaptation distills Shakespeare's tragedy to its furious essence

Director Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth is a bewitching piece of craftsmanship, featuring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand as the murderous power couple.

The degenerative brain condition CTE can be diagnosed only through autopsy. But there's a quiet population of everyday people afraid they have it — and they're turning to dubious treatments.

Everyday people fear they have CTE. A dubious market has sprung up to treat them

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) goes far beyond the NFL. Everyday men and women worry they have the fatal disease, and they've turned to questionable brain products for help.

People walking at a shopping mall in Santa Anita, Cali. Majority of retailers and businesses across the country will close their doors early on Friday ahead of the Christmas holiday this year.

A complete guide to what is — and isn't — open this Christmas

Many major retailers and fast-food chains have announced they will be closed. A few, however, will stay open for customers.

Opinion: A Christmas guest has much to say

People are understandably stressed this Christmas, including Santa.

A woman sweeps outside the house where Desmond Tutu lived in Soweto, South Africa. Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died.

World leaders mourn the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The archbishop is being remembered around the world for his commitment to equality and justice and his "impish" sense of humor.

Desmond Tutu, an icon who helped end apartheid in South Africa, dies at 90

The Nobel Peace laureate and archbishop emeritus campaigned against a system he called evil and, after apartheid, helped the nation heal as head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Wind turbines silhouetted against the sky at dawn near Spearville, Kan. in January. Senator Joe Manchin's rejection of a sweeping spending bill effectively kills President Biden's ambitious climate plan to transform the nation's heavily fossil-fuel powered economy into a clean-burning one.

Manchin says Build Back Better's climate measures are risky. That's not true

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin had spent months watering down Biden's ambitious climate plans. His final objections to the bill's climate measures are misleading.

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the start of trading on Monday. Stocks around the world tumbled over fears of the omicron variant.

Stocks around the world were hit hard by omicron fears. Here are 3 things to know

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 433 points and other exchanges around the world tumbled on Monday over fears about the omicron variant.

Residents stand amid damaged homes following Typhoon Rai in Talisay, Cebu province, central Philippines on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021. The strong typhoon engulfed villages in floods that trapped residents on roofs, toppled trees and knocked out power in southern and central island provinces, where more than 300,000 villagers had fled to safety before the onslaught, officials said.

Desperation grows in the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Rai

Rai is one of the most powerful storms to hit the southern Philippines on record. It's displaced more than 481,000 people and killed more than 150.

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