The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh was always a man of conscience. He did what he thought was right during his 35 years as president of the University of Notre Dame, even if it meant challenging popes, presidents or legendary football coaches.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald says he is committed to a new law aimed at making it easier for veterans to get private health care.

(CNN) About an hour and a half before Odin Lloyd was shot to death, the suspect in his killing, Aaron Hernandez, was captured on video dancing at a gas station south of Boston.

WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to regulate broadband Internet service as a public utility, a milestone in regulating high-speed Internet service into American homes.

(Photo : Reuters) Carly Fiorina, Chair of American Conservative Union Foundation & fmr. CEO of Hewlett-Packard speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Maryland, March 8, 2014.

They may have been after a day out in the sun but two llamas in Arizona have certainly had officials on the back foot. A white llama and a smaller black one escaped during a visit to a former llama rancher.

Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., spends time with Lily, his 15-pound French bulldog, in his Capitol Hill office. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File).

Madonna performs at the Brit Awards 2015 at the 02 Arena in London, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP) more >.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - Sen. James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, who strongly denies that climate change exists, brought a large snowball on the Senate floor Thursday as a real life example that the globe is not warming.

Picasso's La Coiffeuse was registered missing from a storeroom at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 2001. Photograph: AP/US Department of Justice.

Good news: the U.S. is getting better at detecting cyber attacks already underway. Bad news: they're multiplying. The risk of a catastrophic cyber attack that disables a key piece of national infrastructure, such as a portion of the power grid, is “remote at this ...

Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich, who had recently launched a Republican campaign for governor, fatally shot himself in what police described as an "apparent suicide," minutes after inviting reporters to his suburban St. Louis home for an interview.

OXON HILL, Md. - Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker rolled up his sleeves Thursday and picked up where he left off last month in Iowa -- trying to win over his party's conservative base on the way to a potential 2016 White House run.

Feb. 26, 2015: This photo shows 21-year-old Henry Gevorgyan, who is wanted in connection with a street racing hit-and-run that killed two people and critically injured a third (Los Angeles Police Department).

Victims who were involuntarily sterilized by state officials more than 30 years ago will be compensated. More than 7,000 people were permanently made infertile between 1924 and 1979 under the Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act.

A JAN. 20, 2015, FILE COURTROOM SKETCH Elizabeth Williams/AP Khaled al-Fawwaz, alleged to be one of Osama Bin Laden's top lieutenants in the early days of Al Qaeda, was convicted of his role in the 1998 embassy bombings.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton faces new questions over foreign-government donations to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation as she weighs a presidential bid.

A driver who left his pickup truck on the tracks in a crash with a Southern California commuter train has been released from jail.