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If approved, Carter would succeed Chuck Hagel, who resigned in November, under pressure from the White House according to some reports.

The country's second-biggest health insurer says hackers obtained personal information such as names, birthdates and social security numbers of policyholders. No credit card data was compromised.

After Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished over the Indian Ocean, air safety authorities have argued for more frequent contact in order to better locate aircraft in the event of tragedy.

Most of the seafood Americans eat is imported; a lot of that is illegally caught. Now, environmentalists are using satellites to track pirate vessels on the high seas and help crack down on the trade.

Gen. Philip Breedlove, NATO's supreme allied commander of Europe, tells NPR that "hundreds and hundreds" of Russian troops as assisting separatists in eastern Ukraine.

"Clearly what we see is that conditions in eastern Ukraine have to change," NATO Commander Gen. Philip Breedlove tells NPR's Renee Montagne.

The world is running out of chocolate. But a plant scientist in Ecuador has come up with a solution. But if you love chocolate, you might not like it.

Also: Jordan's king says a war against ISIS will be "relentless"; President Obama and the Dalai Lama attend the National Prayer Breakfast; and there's a new group game to escape fake zombies.

King Abdullah has vowed to wage a "harsh" war against the group after it released a video this week that showed a Jordanian pilot being burned alive.

The president said that God never justifies the killing of innocent people. He also referred to the Dalai Lama, who attended the National Prayer Breakfast for the first time, as his "good friend."