Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who grew up in a working class family, led a failed coup, and became an internationally controversial head of state while maintaining the support of marginalized groups, died Tuesday at the age of 58.

A lab technician pipettes liquid into test tubes. Photo by Photo by Apostrophe Productions. Scientists nationwide are bracing for the impacts of the sequestration cuts, which are poised to strike a fierce blow to research. Policymakers aren't the…

EmbedVideo(5904, 482, 304); "It doesn't have to be the way it is today," Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli told Judy Woodruff earlier this week, referring to the country's entitlement programs. Cuccinelli, the leading Republican candidate in Virginia's gubernatorial…