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Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, has said one of her priorities is to improve the information on food package labels.

The rise of social media in politics is no secret, and more and more world leaders are turning to Twitter, according to a new report. Digital Daya notes in its new study “Real Leader’s Tweet” (PDF) that 15 percent of the world’s 163 countries are now represented by their political leaders or governments on Twitter

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan pushed a proposal Wednesday to bar men’s college basketball teams from postseason play if they fail to graduate 40 percent of their players, an idea that didn’t go over well with the NCAA and coaches preparing for March Madness.

SPARKS, Nev. — Workers at a Nevada research lab were checking on a primate room when they came across a ghastly sight: Thirty dead monkeys were essentially cooked alive after someone left the heater on. Two others were near death and had to be euthanized

Yes, you read that headline correctly. In a new commercial from Geico that we don’t feel at all sheepish in calling both incredibly catchy and kinda majestic, the Oracle Of Omaha dons an Axl Rose costume. (Hat tip to Time.com and Morning Money .) If that weren’t enough, Buffett also sings — and surprisingly successfully

Global meat production has tripled in the past three decades and could double its present level by 2050.

Today our society has cameras everywhere, and we have become accustomed to being able to watch tragedy unfold. From the day in 1994 when twenty news helicopters tailed the Ford Bronco carrying O.J

WASHINGTON ( The Borowitz Report ) – With the woman known as “Jihad Jane” making a court appearance today and a woman named “Jihad Jamie” surfacing in Colorado, the FBI is facing increasing pressure to start monitoring people whose first name is “Jihad.” “I don’t know why we didn’t think of this before,” said FBI spokesman Ronald Cartdale. “When someone starts calling herself Jihad This-or-that, it really should set off some alarm bells.” Mr

Despite the poison-laced envelopes, Stephen Colbert bravely filled out his census form last night. But before doing so, he took some time to mock conservatives, notably Michele Bachmann and Glenn Beck, for their stance against the form.