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In theory we do not want to buy products made by child labor or polluting factories. But in practice, we don't want to know about a company's practices.

Returning to school after a few weeks away is a tough transition for many kids, but it's even harder for children living in stressful homes.

An advisory panel had recommended telling Americans to cut back on red and processed meats. But that controversial advice is missing from the update to the government's official nutrition guidelines.

The bottle of beer had languished at the bottom of Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia. A treasure hunter brought the pale ale to Andrew MacIntosh who specializes in fermentation research.

A district judge in San Francisco said that Congress and the president can choose to "extend the protection of law to animals as well as humans" — but that for now, no, monkeys can't own copyrights.

Owner Karl Durkheimer says President Obama's gun policies, including this week's executive orders, motivate many of his customers' purchases.

I figured I'd slap the baby's bottom. Wrong! Luckily I got a lesson from trainers who teach birth attendants in the developing world.

Robin Wright, who writes about Saudi Arabia and Iran in the current issue of The New Yorker, says upcoming Syrian peace talks have been compromised by the execution of an outspoken Shiite cleric.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards invited television cameras to have a look at what appeared to be long-range ballistic missiles, which have been a source of recent tension with the U.S.

At least three genes that predispose some of us to hay fever and other allergies came from Neanderthal DNA, scientists say. The genes very likely boosted the immunity of our early ancestors.