Earlier this fall, needles were repeatedly found inside strawberries sold at grocery stores. Now a 50-year-old Berry Licious employee is being prosecuted and could face 10 years in jail if convicted.

After 10 years, the government has updated its physical activity advice. The new message? Every little bit of movement helps you stay healthy and is better than sitting on your couch.

Rain was best known for the eerie, sonorous voice he lent to HAL 9000 in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film. However, he was also celebrated for his decades of performances on the Shakespearean stage.

The first bill House Democrats’ will vote on would establish automatic voter registration, strengthen the Voting Rights Act, limit partisan redistricting and tighten campaign finance laws.

Two new studies offer unexpected insights — and solutions — into the problem of spousal abuse.

The weeks-long battle over “hanging chads” that ultimately landed the fate of the presidency in the U.S. Supreme Court, continues to cast a long shadow over the nation’s political psyche.

A Kazakh rights organization has collected more than 1,000 testimonies from ethnic Kazakhs and Uighurs whose families have disappeared into a network of internment camps in Xinjiang.

A chemical in common paint removal products is implicated in more than 50 deaths. Even though a federal ban has been delayed, some major retailers are voluntarily taking the products off shelves.

In two audio clips from her memoir, set to hit shelves Tuesday, the former first lady reads about her life at Princeton and about her difficulties having a baby.

Republican Dan Crenshaw is one of at least 16 new veterans who were elected to the House in the midterm elections.

“We are not anti-gun: we are anti-bullet holes in our patients,” wrote one physician in response to the NRA. Another posted a photo of his own scrubs, bloody from trying to save a gunshot victim.

The Trump administration hopes the sanctions will force Iran to negotiate a new nuclear deal. But analysts point out there are overt and covert activities to avoid the penalties.

For decades the Navajo Generating Station provided a good livelihood for Navajo and Hopi tribes. But the plant is scheduled to close next year, leaving 500 workers scrambling for an alternative.

Outdoor cats kill as many as 4 billion birds each year in this country. But how many cats are there, really? Now a team of technicians is trying to count Washington, D.C.’s feral felines.

Pete Davidson made fun of newly elected congressman Dan Crenshaw’s eye patch last week. Crenshaw stopped by this week to say Davidson “looks like if the meth from Breaking Bad was a person.”

Alberto Gonzales says there are “legitimate questions” about whether Matthew Whitaker can serve as acting attorney general without Senate confirmation.

The release of Rachelle “Shelley” Shannon, who was imprisoned for shooting and injuring an abortion provider in 1993, has clinics on edge amid increased harassment of clinics that provide abortions.

After years of debate, a major government funded study failed to find any overall benefit of taking widely used supplements to protect against heart disease or cancer.

Before a meeting of world leaders meant to signal that tragedies of the war are long past, the U.S. president called the French president’s proposal for a European military “insulting.”

Machine counting of votes will begin this week after narrow margins were reported in the races for governor and U.S. Senate.

Leah Penniman’s new book teaches farming to address issues such as racism, health disparities and food access. She also traces some farming technologies back to their widely unknown African roots.

Pain medications commonly used in labor present medical and mental challenges for pregnant women recovering from opioid addiction.

A federal judge in Montana blocked further work on the Keystone XL oil pipeline this week. Construction was scheduled to start in January 2019 and TransCanada says it’s still committed to the project.

The president’s appointment of a new acting AG ejected Jeff Sessions and leapfrogged Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, the only person at DOJ who the president may like less than Sessions or Robert Mueller.

“It was very difficult being married to a man that felt like politics was his destiny,” the former first lady tells All Things Considered host Audie Cornish in a wide-ranging interview about her life.

A 30-count indictment was handed up in Manhattan federal court on Friday for Cesar Sayoc, the Florida man who is accused of sending pipe bombs by mail to prominent Trump critics.

Thirteen people on the bus were killed. Jack Young made a tearful apology to the victims’ families on Friday. He was under the influence of drugs when he drove head-on into the bus.

“This is my very first day at Xinhua News Agency,” says a sharply dressed artificial intelligence news anchor. “I look forward to bringing you the brand new news experiences.”

There are some things in America that you can find in both Montana and Manhattan.

The Food and Drug Administration is set to ban sales of e-cigarettes at gas stations and convenience stores, which is where teens often go to buy them.

A group of roughly 10 House Democrats is organizing an effort to oppose Pelosi as the next speaker of the House, but they admit they don’t have an alternative candidate yet.

A new report says the U.S. has the 28th-highest rate in the world: 4.43 deaths due to gun violence per 100,000 people in 2017. By contrast, Bangladesh saw 0.07 deaths per 100,000 people.

As the incidents of mass shootings in the U.S. occur, some people are starting to feel numbed by them. Psychologists says this is normal.

Trump said on Friday that he doesn’t know Matthew Whitaker. Last month on television, the president said not only that he knew him but that he is a “great guy.”

“Tonight, we are a hurting city,” Mayor Andy Fox told a large crowd of people who had gathered for a vigil at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

Since 2011, the tech mogul has poured $200 million into developing new and improved toilets. At his Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing, the innovations were showcased for the first time.