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Students at Doherty Middle School in Andover, Mass., choose items from the salad bar in the school cafeteria, June 2012. Among other things, a Senate compromise on school nutrition standards calls for the USDA and the CDC to establish new guidance that would encourage the use of salad bars.

Food Fight Fizzles As Senate Nears Compromise On School Nutrition Rules

The deal OK'd by a key Senate panel preserves stricter school nutrition standards enacted since 2010, but it gives schools more leeway in implementing them. It also calls for encouraging salad bars.

A child gold miner in Watsa, northeastern Congo. 2004

Today's Slaves Often Work For Enterprises That Destroy The Environment

Kevin Bales' book, Blood and Earth, explains why slavery in the world's lawless zones is essential to operate mines that pose a grave threat to the environment.

In Many Nursing Homes, Resident Deaths Are Kept Secret

Staff members often refuse to admit a resident has died, even when their friends ask where they've gone, reports Bob Tedeschi of STAT.

SoCal Gas spokesman MikeMizrahi meets with journalists outside the SoCal Gas Aliso Canyon storage facility in Porter Ranch, California on January 8, 2016, where residents have been lodging complaints and seeking an alternative housing situation from their homes near where natural gas leaking from a well has sickened and displaced thousands of residents. More than 1,600 odor complaints have been lodged with the air district by Porter Ranch residents since October 23, 2015 when the leak began. Repeated efforts to stop the leak by pumping liquid and mud down the well have failed and the gas company is now drilling a relief well to intercept and plug the damaged well. (Frederic J. Brown//AFP/Getty Images)

Los Angeles Suburb Still Suffering From Gas Leak

California State Sen. Fran Pavley discusses the new legislation she introduced, in response to the ongoing natural gas leak.

Sky Show: 5 Planets Align In View Of Earth

If you’re up a little before dawn over the next month, you may want to go outside and view another celestial treat, compliments of most of the solar…

Dave Rauchwerk is CEO of Next Thing Co., which makes the CHIP computer.

Can A $9 Computer Spark A New Wave Of Tinkering And Innovation?

It fits in your hand, can connect to Wi-Fi and has Bluetooth. The $9 CHIP promises to be a teaching tool that's also fun to play with. It's just one of several low-cost computers hitting the market.

Investigators prepare to enter one of the residences where suspect Edward Archer lived in Yeadon, Pa. Archer is accused of ambushing a police officer in Philadelphia on Jan. 7. The FBI has said it is investigating the attack as a possible act of terrorism — inspired by ISIS.

What Does It Mean If An Attack Is 'ISIS-Inspired'?

Earlier this month, a man opened fire on a Philadelphia policeman. The suspect later told police he did it for ISIS, but authorities have found no link between him and the extremist group.

A uniformed tour guide gestures to tourists outside the War Museum in Pyongyang. U.S. citizens can visit North Korea as tourists.

North Korea Claims It Has U.S. Student In Custody

State media reported that the isolated nation has detained a student from the University of Virginia for "committing anti-republic activities."

Losing a pregnancy after 20 weeks is more common in the U.S. than in other developed countries.

U.S. Lags Behind Other Countries In Reducing Stillbirths

When a fetus dies late in pregnancy, doctors often don't investigate. And the U.S. isn't making much progress in reducing the risk of these tragic losses.

Escambia County Addressing Inmate Deaths

Escambia County officials are working on ways to prevent any increase in the number of inmate deaths at the county jail and to find and alleviate the…

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