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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has rejected the nomination of a Marine sergeant for the Medal of Honor — the nation's highest military award — because there isn't enough evidence that he deserved it, the Defense Department said Friday.
Kevin O'Neill was accused of not speaking up when racial slurs were used against an assistant, a charge he denied.
The U.S. State Department extended late Friday the deportation deadline for a comatose exchange student, granting the Pakistani man an extra month in America, a lawyer handling the student's immigration status confirmed to NBC News.But from his bedside at a Duluth, Minn.
A federal judge has ordered the Army to track down soldiers who were subjected to secret medical experiments during the Cold War and warn them of any newly discovered health hazards they could face.In a ruling (PDF) entered Thursday in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif.
An incident during a traffic jam on a Miami highway left a woman screaming for help.
One crew member from a Gregg Allman biopic was killed and seven others were injured when a train barreled down tracks where the production had set up, authorities said.The circumstances of the Thursday afternoon accident in Savannah, Ga.
After a pipe collapsed under a coal ash pond, the EPA is urging residents along the Dan River to avoid direct contact with the water.
Another polar plunge is on the way. Meteorologist Janice Huff has the forecast.
A surgical procedure that helped an Olympic athlete regain his 20/20 vision has also been a success for wrestler Brett Gray.
