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With the hunt for alternative sources of Omega-3s in full swing, Canadian health officials are considering genetically modified soybeans adapted to produce the essential fatty acids. Omega-3s, most commonly found in fish, are important for cardiovascular health and brain development...

Kennedy is the leader Americans would most like to see added to Mount Rushmore, poll results on topics of conversation indicate. The poll by CBS' "60 Minutes"/Vanity Fair magazine also revealed Monday Americans consider Rush Limbaugh to be the most...

These days, with economies stretched to the limit and people cutting back on everything from designer label clothing to brand-name toilet paper, trying to help out a favorite cause may seem like an impossibility. But helping out your best-loved non-profit...

Dunn, the White House communications director who created something of a stir when she asserted on CNN recently that FOX News is an "arm of the Republican Party'' and not really a news network in the traditional sense, also got...

A jury found a former Agriprocessors Inc. executive guilty on 86 felony fraud counts related to sales records at the meat company's plant in Postville, Iowa. The Des Moines (Iowa) Register reported Friday Sholom Rubashkin , a former Agriprocessor vice...

The former manager of an Iowa kosher meat empire faces back-to-back trials on allegations of bank fraud and harboring illegal immigrants, officials said. Jury selection was to began Tuesday in the bank fraud trial of Sholom Rubashkin, charged with allegedly...

No one goes so far as to declare West Nile virus no longer poses a public health threat in South Dakota. Still, cases involving the mosquito-borne disease suddenly have dwindled, nearly as quickly as the deadly epidemic of West Nile...

A former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager accused of defrauding a bank was incompetent and in over his head, a plant employee testified Monday. Chaim Abrahams, a purchasing manager at Agriprocessors Inc., testified for the defense during Sholom Rubashkin's federal fraud...