In 1994, a tomato known as Flavr Savr became the first commercially grown genetically engineered food to be granted a license for human consumption. Scientists…

When is a child care center not a child care center? When it operates like a jail. That was the ruling of a Texas state judge when…

Retired marine General James Mattis, who retired from being the head of CENTCOM in 2013, has become known recently for his stance against what he…

Food poisoning cases linked to eating oysters and other shellfish from New England waters have jumped from five cases in 2000 to 147 in 2013.…

In his sharpest critique yet of scofflaw landlords, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday it’s “outrageous” that thousands of New York City property owners…

The Dakota Sioux living on the Standing Rock reservation celebrated Sunday when news broke that the construction of the North Dakota pipeline had been halted.…

Fear of confronting the tensions and conflicts brought on by existential concerns—the "big questions" of life—is linked with poorer mental health, including higher levels of…

The FDA is no doubt pulling the strings on this. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued a policy statement explaining that the agency will…

There are three courts in the land: the court of justice (Judicial branch of government), the court of public opinion (i.e., news media), and the…

NEW YORK (December 5, 2016)--The relative portion of older adherents to the world's religions will shift in the coming decades, according to a study by…

President-elect Donald Trump probably never read Fletcher Knebel and Charles Bailey’s “Seven Days in May” in 1962 and never saw John Frankenheimer’s film version in…

Dear Bernie Sanders, In our times of fear, growing bigotry and uncertainty, I feel obligated to appeal to you. As a former campaigner of yours,…