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In her newest book "Girls Get Curves: Geometry Take Shape" actress and math education advocate Danica McKellar teaches readers geometry, using her signature "girly" style. McKellar discusses the book, and tells why she chose to pair geometry lessons with tips for exercise and eating.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says all baby boomers should get tested for the virus. But there's another aspect to the story.

Brant "Boog" Torsen can't fix every car for a plate of cookies, but he will help you if he can.

A law professor and his students have put together a dictionary of Supreme Court pronouncers. It details how to pronounce the sometimes obscure or ambiguous names of cases going back to the beginning of the republic.

There's a lot at stake in the fall election, including control of Congress and the White House. But important questions will also be decided at the state level. Ballot initiatives will let voters in several states decide on issues ranging from same-sex marriage to marijuana legalization.

In California and other states struggling to plug big holes in their budgets, tax increases will be on the ballot in November. Several measures ask voters to help ward off budget cuts, or to raise funds for basic functions like schools and roads.

The grunion run happens only in the spring and summer months. Late at night, under the full and new moons, thousands of tiny, silvery fish swim to shore for a very peculiar mating ritual.

A little more than half of the couple's income for that period came from Ryan's congressional salary.

More California cities may file for bankruptcy and default on bonds in the coming months, according to a report released today by a major credit rating…

Each year, you need a new influenza vaccination to protect against the ever-changing seasonal flu virus. Then there's more exotic influenza variants such as swine flu and avian flu. Gary Nabel, director of the Vaccine Research Center at the NIH, discusses the ongoing quest to develop one vaccine that could protect against all influenza variants at once.