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New survey data show an estimated 5 million teens use e-cigarettes and nearly 1 million use them daily. Here's more on their favorite brands and flavors.

Americans consumed almost 37 pounds per capita in 2017, but that wasn't enough to reduce the country's 1.4 billion-pound cheese surplus. The stockpile of cheese started to build several years ago.

Despite decades of global efforts to get cleaner cookstoves to the poor in Bangladesh, very few have adopted them. A new study suggests talking more about the stoves' cheaper fuel costs and less about health hazards may help.

Mitt Romney's big foreign trip got off to a shaky start. Among several missteps, the Republican presidential candidate upset his British host by raising doubts about whether the London Olympics would be a success.

Mechanics are threatening to walk off the job Saturday unless Northwest Airlines drops its demands for job and wage cuts. The carrier says it has replacement workers ready, and that it needs to dramatically cut costs to stay afloat. From Minnesota Public Radio Jeff Horwich reports.

News from Somalia usually involves violent warlords or pirates hijacking ships off the coast. Other than that, average Somalis don't have much of a voice. The rapper K'Naan is trying to change that, and in the world of hip-hop, he's become an artist to watch.

One of the best years for kids' music in recent memory includes releases from artists with feet firmly in both kid-friendly and adult-oriented worlds. Old favorites went in new directions, while emerging artists gave a glimpse of the future of a genre as diverse and unpredictable as kids themselves.

Many friends and colleagues of Bruce Ivins, a government researcher who was under investigation for the anthrax attacks of 2001, have said they are certain that investigators are pointing to the wrong man. But his estranged brother says he believes the allegations.

The lawsuit says the redistricting disadvantages Black and Latino voters and does not reflect the outsize effect minorities played in the state's recent population growth.

The grandmother often sang John Denver's "Sunshine On My Shoulders" because it reminded her of life's tiny pleasures.