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Modern medicine can perform miracles. But it can't offer spiritual guidance or emotional support when a person is sick or dying. While doctors and nurses work to cure the body, hospital chaplains try to heal the soul.

Gordon's Lord of Misrule and Smith's Just Kids were the big winners at the National Book Awards in New York. We were there to capture the laughter, the tears and the free caviar.

How do you photograph memory? It's a question that fine-art photographer Jennifer Karady is exploring. And not just any memory, but memories of war brought home by veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Cindy Richards and her husband are self-employed. The only health insurance they can find to cover their family of four is expensive, with high deductibles. Often this means they need to ration their care.

The Jordanian doctor had provided information that led to the killing of several al-Qaida operatives, a former intelligence official said. His reports were so sensitive they were subject to "restricted handling," meaning they were seen in Washington only by the CIA director and his top assistants.

A federal appeals court rules the cross on Mt. Soledad is unconstitutional. But the legal battle is not over. We'll discuss this ruling and talk about some of new laws that take affect in 2011.

UC San Diego computer scientists are creating a network of environmental sensors to help people avoid air pollution hot spots.

The first test beams of protons were sent through tunnels in a multibillion-dollar machine Wednesday. Later this fall, the Large Hadron Collider will begin smashing subatomic particles together so that scientists can search through the wreckage for clues about the early universe.

In a move authorized by President Obama, the CIA has sent a covert team into rebel-held eastern Libya to gather intelligence to help direct NATO airstrikes and to help train inexperienced rebel fighters.

Spotting a lie is a crucial part of police work. KPBS reporter Tom Fudge says a psychologist at San Diego's National University may have found a new way to do it.