The Labor Department's monthly employment report released Friday shows the U.S. economy shed more jobs than it created last month - a net loss of 125,000 jobs - the first monthly job loss of the year. Despite the net decline, the nation's unemploymen...
American waistlines just keep expanding. A new report finds obesity levels rose in 28 states last year. But, despite the rising levels, there is a growing awareness that obesity is a major health problem. In 1980, 15 percent of American adults were o...
The Silverdocs film festival is widely regarded as one of the most important film festivals in the country. Each year, the festival offers independently-produced non-fiction films from around the world, attracting filmmakers and moviegoers alike. The...
Clinton Calls for Reflection on US Ideals During July 4 Independence Day Holiday More than a million people are gathering in Washington ahead of Sunday's Independence Day festivities as well as for the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the Nati...
The top drug control official in the U.S., Gil Kerlikowske, is speaking out against increasing drug violence in Mexico and in support of Mexican President Felipe Calderon. In the most recent violence, 21 people died Thursday in a gun battle between r...
American Muslim leaders believe the U.S. government has unfairly scrutinized their fund-raising operations for potential links to Islamist terrorist groups President Barack Obama's June 4, 2009 address to the Islamic world in Cairo, Egypt, generated...
Photojournalist Kian Amani covered the violent aftermath of the Iranian election on the streets of Tehran last summer Journalists are known for their tenacity in reporting dramatic news events as they unfold, whether it's a local news reporter coveri...
Small kits are now available similar to pregnancy tests that can determine whether a person is infected with HIV, the AIDS virus. But the tests can give a false positive reading if used incorrectly, possibly dealing an emotional or psychological blow...
Abandoned HIV positive babies Sifiso, left, and Rose, right, at the Cotlands home in Johannesburg, South Africa, 9 Jul 2002 Around 70,000 babies are born with HIV in South Africa every year. It is one of the main contributors to the country's high in...
Brazil's soccer players, from left, Kaka, Robinho, Luis Fabiano, and Julio Baptista joke during a training session in Johannesburg, South Africa, 30 Jun 2010 In the Friday's first match, Brazil will play the Netherlands at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium...
Muscles ripple out of Isaac Donkors red and yellow striped Ghana football jersey, as he walks through his furniture store at the end of a busy street in Johannesburgs Newlands suburb. He ambles into his office, where certificates from bodybuilding ch...
U.S.A. fans are disappointed their soccer team is no longer in the World Cup. But, thanks to the U.S. team's inspiring run that has fueled interest in the tournament, they're still watching and so are soccer fans from around the world who happen to f...
Someone - specifically the father-daughter team of Larry and Meagan Johnson of Phoenix, Arizona - has figured out that on some American job sites, five generations are working side by side. And while such an age disparity adds a lot of texture and an...
On Sunday afternoons, the clang of traditional Indonesian percussion music known as gamelan wafts down the street, audible on the approach to the Indonesian Consulate on Manhattan's east side. Gamelan is also the word for the kinds of instruments tha...
Women pass outside of the hotel where Christopher Robert Metsos, the 11th suspect in an alleged Russian spy ring assigned to infiltrate American society, was believed to have been staying in the southern coastal resort of Larnaca, Cyprus, 30 Jun 2010...
