It’s been a fixture on kitchen counters, refrigerator tops and junk drawers for decades.

How many people have died in Darfur? Two years ago, the United Nations estimated 200,000. But the man who gave that figure now says it’s far too low. Sudan has long said it’s way too high.A new mortality survey might settle the question, but the U.N....

After being surrounded by the dramatic heavyweight stars of the Oscars, Jon Stewart will play host again, this time amid a bevy of comedians.Stewart will host the second biannual “Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Benefit for Autism Education” on...

Marksmen killed more than half of the estimated deer population at a northern New Jersey nature preserve during a culling last month that was sharply criticized by some residents and animal rights activists.Volunteer marksmen shot 213 of an estimated 300...

The number of elk roaming the nation’s parks is booming, and that’s bad news for them.A debate has started among wildlife and conservation officials about how the animals should be culled _ by sharpshooters’ bullets or by their natural enemy,...

State agencies issue too many reports, a new 668-page report says.The Texas State Library and Archives Commission spent 18 months and canvassed more than 170 agencies and public colleges and universities, checking on all the reports they are assigned to...

At the general store on Canada Lake in the southern Adirondacks, mice were the talk of the town this summer.”My husband was buying mousetraps at the store and three people said, ‘Do you have mice too?’” said Mary Cannon, secretary of the lake...