As many as 25 percent of the American farmers growing genetically engineered corn are no longer complying with federal rules intended to maintain the resistance of the crops to damage from insects, according to an advocacy group's report released Thursday

Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country's booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and form

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A mother whose newborn was kidnapped by a knife-wielding woman posing as an immigration agent was briefly reunited with her baby Saturday, then saw him and her three other children taken from her and put into state custody.

Chinese researchers have unearthed the fossil of a bird-like dinosaur with four wings in northeastern China, which they suggest is a missing link in dinosaurs' evolution into birds.

Rachel Maddow is joined by Occidental College politics professor Peter Dreier, author of a study on the manufactured myths about ACORN and how easily the mainstream media (not just the right wing media) was led into reporting falsehoods.

Sharron Kay Thornton talks with her lead surgeon Victor Perez who restored sight to her left eye at the University of Miami Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida. The procedure implanted one of her teeth in her eye, as a base to hold a prosthetic

Call it a group hug for the demonstrably deranged. But there was more to it than just standard-issue anti-Obama sentiments being aired in the streets. Layered beneath the whole scene was a hard vein of bitter racism the participants didn't even try to hid

Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in "The Basketball Diaries," died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 60.

A group of preschool teachers in Los Angeles was sickened by marijuana this year after unknowingly eating pot brownies purchased from a street vendor by a fellow instructor, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today. The incident

Every April 5 for the past 10 years, Phillip Garrido registered on his birthday with the Contra Costa Sheriff's Office as a convicted sex offender. Two to three times a month, he met his parole officer at the parole office or his Antioch, Calif., home.