Researchers get same yields with fewer fertilizers, pesticides Steve Baragona | Washington, DC 18 May 2010 Fossil energy use was compared among different crop rotation systems in a field experiment conducted between 2003 and 2008 in Boone Co., Iowa R...
For the cost of a bowl of soup, St. Louis residents become art patrons David Weinberg | St. Louis, Missouri 18 May 2010 Funding for the arts has been hit hard by the economic downturn. So many local groups have turned to small-scale private donors. P...
New film highlights unique relationship, PTSD, mental illness David Byrd | Washington, DC 18 May 2010 The U.S. military uses dogs to help troops on sentry duty and bomb-sniffing patrols. But dogs are also proving their worth off the field of battle b...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, 18 May 2010, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the new START Treaty Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States and other major powers h...
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, right, and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, 18 May 2010 The U.S. Congress is stepping up its probe of the Gulf oil spill. T...
Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani American who allegedly tried to detonate a car bomb in New York's Time Square, made his first appearance in a U.S. court late Tuesday. Police have been chasing down leads he is reported to have already provided. But as N...
Laura Fattal, left, mother of Josh Fattal, Cindy Hickey, center, mother of Shane Bauer and Nora Shourd, mother of Sarah Shourd in New York. Josh, Shane and Sarah were arrested for illegal entry near the Iraq border and have been in a Tehran prison si...
Protesters recently marched by the State Department demanding pressure for democratic change in Ethiopia Members of the Ethiopian diaspora and U.S. human rights groups want the U.S. government to put pressure on its Horn of Africa ally Ethiopia to im...
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf attends the New World, New Capitalism conference in Paris, 9 Jan 2009 (file photo) Liberian President, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson is urging countries to make free health care available to the poor. The Liberian pre...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan delivers a speech in Port Harcourt on 14 May 2010 Nigerian lawmakers approved Muslim politician, Namadi Sambo, as the new vice president of Africa's most populous nation Tuesday. President Goodluck Jonathan's choi...
You'd probably want to eat one of each of these desserts from the Ox Inn, but it's doubtful you'd have room after endless earlier helpings of food. In the Midwest state of Iowa, not far from the Mississippi River, there's a cluster of seven villages...
Standard medical supplies might seem like an important donation in developing countries but American obstetrician Laura Stachel saw the need for something even more basic: reliable power. Basic need Stachel is crouching on the floor of her Berkeley k...
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens in Washington State erupted with a force that killed 57 people, destroyed 52,000 hectares of forest, and sent an ash plume so high it circled the globe. Now, three decades later, the blast zone is once again teeming...
Violinist Eddie South may not be a household name, but among his peers, he was a giant of the jazz world. The former classical music prodigy whose distinctive style was the inspiration for a new tribute album by Violin Jazz. The music of Eddie South,...
BP oil company has announced its first major success in containing a massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Engineers inserted a metal tube into a broken pipe on the sea floor, to siphon oil into a ship on the surface. BP engineers implemented the f...
