Dec. 4 (UPI) -- President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated billionaire SpaceX backer and close Elon Musk associate Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator.

Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The Department of Veteran Affairs has launched a new campaign to help enroll more than a million veterans who are not enrolled in its healthcare system, including those exposed to blasts in recent wars.

Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A herd of 14 Asia-native deer escaped from a private zoo in Michigan, and the owner said he believes they were released intentionally.

About a third of America's pharmacies have closed since 2010, amounting to an "unprecedented decline" in neighborhood drug stores, a new study finds.

Decades of lead exposure from car exhaust altered the mental health of millions of Americans, making them more prone to depression, anxiety and ADHD, a new study claims.

Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Auto giant General Motors warned in government filings on Wednesday that it will take a $5 billion hit in the fourth quarter because of its operations reconstruction in China.

Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Officials are concerned that a sinkhole in western Pennsylvania is now more dangerous and unstable after a missing woman reportedly fell through it while babysitting her granddaughter.

Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The attorney general for the District of Columbia filed a suit Wednesday against Amazon, accusing it of denying two neighborhoods high-speed delivery service.

Dec. 4 (UPI) -- TikTok revealed its top trends of the year, including Jools Lebron's "very demure, very mindful" catchphrase and the "Knights of the Rotund Table" -- baby animals like Moo Deng the hippo and Pesto the penguin.

Dec. 4 (UPI) -- UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed by a masked gunman in midtown Manhattan early Wednesday morning, according to multiple reports.