A team of researchers and agricultural agents hopes to take a bite out of the West Coast's $1 billion broccoli monopoly with new strains of the vegetable designed to withstand the East Coast's heat and humidity.

Texas is preparing to give college students and professors the right to carry guns on campus, adding momentum to a national campaign to open this part of society to firearms.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources plans to prohibit waders with felt soles starting on March 21 to curb the spread of invasive organisms that can get trapped in the damp fibers and carried from one body of water to another.

The U.S. does not expect this year's climate change conference in South Africa to yield a binding international agreement to stop global warming, the top U.S. negotiator said Monday.

Even with the budget crisis looming, both houses of Congress are in recess this week.

A senior U.S. diplomat on Sunday condemned the brutal crackdown on opposition protesters in Libya, saying Arab leaders facing pro-democracy protests need to lead the way rather than resist reform.

Over the past three decades, two national commissions and a series of government audits sounded alarms about the dwindling amount of money states were setting aside to pay unemployment insurance to laid-off workers.

A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to a government office Monday in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 28 people, police said.

Gov. Scott Walker made clear Sunday he won't back off his proposal to effectively eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public employees.

American critics said the deal might allow sensitive technology to be transferred to China's military.

The EU said the bloc was preparing for the possible evacuation of European citizens from Libya.

The Smithsonian’s American Art Museum is asking the public to help select video games to be included in its first exhibit exploring the art and visual effects of gaming.

An article in Egypt’s constitution that affirms Islam as the state religion likely will remain untouched despite hopes among the country’s Christian minority that the recent uprising would usher in an era of greater tolerance for non-Muslims.

If Seif Gadhafi is the "face of reform" in Libya, then I'm the "face of young, liberal blogging" in the U.S.

Gaddafi’s son, Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, went on national television early Monday, warning of the danger of civil war and declaring that Libya’s armed forces had been ordered to restore order “at any price.”

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told senators that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency would maintain its detention bed numbers in fiscal year 2012 at the current level of 33,400.

The federal government gave $669.6 million to the public schools in Wisconsin in fiscal 2008, according to the Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). That is more than 20 times as much as the $30 million that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is trying to save in the current fiscal year by asking state employees, including teachers, to pay for a fraction of the cost

One gained the reputation as “Dr. Death” for his political tactics. He is joined by political operatives that worked for Democratic candidates such as Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, and Jerry Brown, and lent their know-how to the unsuccessful campaign to legalize marijuana in California.

Microsoft shares platform and industry collaboration developments aimed at connecting data to help improve healthcare.

The Microsoft Local Language Program extends software to often underserved cultures, allowing people to experience technology in their native language. Feb. 21 is International Mother Language Day.