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It started as a banner year for female candidates. More ran in party primaries than ever before, especially Republicans. Some posted big victories Tuesday. But for the first time since the 1970s, the total number of women in the new Congress will likely drop.

Why should farmers in the Midwest care about what's happening in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? How might the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico impact the health of the world's oceans? We speak to the author of "Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean."

April through August is pupping season for great white sharks. Marine biologist Dr. Michael Domeier has been studying white sharks in waters off the coast of California and Baja California. We find out about the migratory patterns of great white sharks, where they live, feed and breed.

The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-4.6 earthquake has shaken a remote area of the Mojave Desert in Southern California.

Libraries have limited space and limited funds, but they face a constantly growing supply of books. The careful culling of books is painstaking work. From selling to donating to destroying, we look at the options when every book cannot be kept on the shelves.

Japanese nuclear safety officials said Friday that they are looking closely at a leak of radioactive water at the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. The contamination is likely from the third reactor's vessel, but the reactor's core may not necessarily have been breached.

Is homework beneficial for very young children?

Transportation officials and engineers with NASA say two mechanical safety defects previously identified by the government are the only known causes for the reports of runaway Toyotas. Both issues were the subject of large recalls by Toyota.

New Mexico's new governor, Susana Martinez, was elected on a platform calling for law and order and business-friendly deregulation. But critics say her new policies only please oil and gas producers, who contributed generously to her campaign.

Chronic fatigue affects more than 1 million people in the U.S. Scientists have discovered that nearly two-thirds of them are infected with a retrovirus called XMRV.