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  • Artistic reconstruction of <em>Archicebus achilles</em> in its natural habitat of trees.
    Tiny, Ancient Tree-Dweller Was One Of Earth's Earliest Primates
    About 55 million years ago, a teacup-sized critter in China was helping to pave the way for apes and humans. This insect eater had fingernails and stereo vision, a newly published analysis of a fossil suggests. And it weighed just 1 ounce.
  • U.S. Charges NSA Leaker Snowden With Espionage
    The U.S. Justice Department has prepared the documents to formally charge Edward Snowden with espionage. Snowden is the former contractor who has publicized details about U.S. surveillance programs
  • Death Toll In Syria Jumps To Nearly 93,000
    Death toll numbers in Syria have been revised higher after a report released by the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. Melissa Block talks to Megan Price, the group's director of research.
  • Guatemala's former dictator Efrain Rios Montt arrives in court Jan. 31 in Guatemala City to stand trial on genocide charges. On Tuesday, the prosecution will present its case in the trial.
    Three Decades On, Ex-Guatemalan Leader Faces Genocide Charges
    Former military ruler Efrain Rios Montt, now 86, presided over one of the bloodiest periods in Guatemala's 36-year civil war. During his rule, thousands of Guatemala's Indians were killed.
  • The Big Sandy Power Plant, 4 miles north of Louisa, is the biggest industry in Lawrence County. Local residents blame President Obama's environmental policies for the company's plans to close the plant in 2015.
    In Kentucky's Coal Country, A Resentment For Obama
    If the voters in Louisa, Ky., had their wish, Mitt Romney would have taken the oath of office Monday. The local coal-fired power plant is due to close amid a push for cleaner-burning plants. Local residents blame Obama for the pending job losses.
  • That flat screen can still be dangerous if it falls off the wall.
    TVs Pose A Danger To Kids, But Not The Way You Might Think
    Every 30 minutes a child ends up in the emergency room after being injured by a television. Flat screen TVs aren't necessarily safer, according to a study. They are heavy and perhaps even more likely to tip over than those old tube monsters. Experts say TVs need to be tethered to a wall.
  • A mother and daughter walk home after attending a community meeting about eradicating female genital mutilation in the western Senegalese village of Diabougo.
    Female Genital Mutilation On The Decline, But Still Too Common
    The most comprehensive survey on female genital mutilation and cutting finds the practice has decreased in more than half of the countries where it persists. But in parts of eastern Africa, about 90 percent of girls still undergo the abusive procedure.
  • A St. Louis Police cruiser.
    After 152 Years, St. Louis Gains Control Of Its Police Force
    Missouri has had control of the city's police force since the civil war. Claiborne Jackson, Missouri's segregationist governor, didn't want the Unionist city controlling its own arsenal.
  • So cute, but not cuddly. The Egyptian tomb bat, <em>Taphozous perforatus</em>, is a likely carrier of the Middle East respiratory syndrome virus, or MERS.
    Deadly Middle East Coronavirus Found In An Egyptian Tomb Bat
    Just a fragment of genes in bat guano was enough for researchers trying to find out how a deadly new virus spreads. It's the first time the Middle East respiratory syndrome virus has been found in an animal, and offers strong evidence that bats carry the virus.
  • Modernizing Poultry Inspection No Easy Matter
    Retired federal inspector Phyllis McKelvey spent 44 years looking for blemishes and other defects on chicken carcasses. She started as an inspector’s…
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