Posted: 9:34 PM A new study finds little evidence that organic food is much healthier than conventionally grown food.

Posted: 9:33 PM About 300 firefighters are on the ground, while half a dozen water-dropping helicopters and a DC-10 tanker are in the air battling a wildfire in the Angeles National Forest northeast of Los Angeles.

Posted: 5:27 PM Are Americans better off than before Barack Obama was elected president?

Posted: 5:21 PM There's some tough talk today from Syria's government toward the rebels, just days after President Bashar Assad conceded that his forces are having trouble putting down the rebellion.

Posted: 5:08 PM Several days of rain brought some relief to farmers in the nation's midsection as they contend with the worst drought in the U.S. in decades.

Updated: 9:05 PM More than 600,000 Mr. Coffee single cup brewers are being recalled because of a potential burn hazard.

Posted: 11:09 AM In his warm-up for the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama is tangling with a couple of rivals, only one named Mitt. The other is voter apathy, especially among the young.

Posted: 11:08 AM Much of a finger-shaped parish southeast of New Orleans was still covered with floodwater Sunday and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still didn't have any power, five days after Isaac ravaged the state.

Posted: 9:08 AM The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting an earthquake early Monday in the greater Los Angeles area.

Posted: 9:07 AM Democrats gather this week in Charlotte, N.C., with one goal: nominate Barack Obama and stay on message about why he needs to be re-elected.

Posted: 9:05 AM Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is launching an aggressive Republican response at the site of the Democratic National Convention. The goal: stealing attention and driving new questions about President Barack Obama's leadership on the eve of his nomination for a second term.

Posted: 9:03 AM President Barack Obama is headed to Louisiana to see damage from Hurricane Isaac. His trip Monday comes after Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made his own visit to meet with storm victims.

Posted: 9:01 AM The U.S. Coast Guard says Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe lost his way kayaking off New York's Long Island but was picked up by a Coast Guard boat and safely taken to shore.

Posted: 9:26 PM U.S. Steel and the United Steelworkers have announced tentative agreement on a three-year contract covering more than 16,000 workers at domestic facilities.

Posted: 9:22 PM Venezuela is holding a national voting drill to test procedures for October's presidential election.

Posted: 9:17 PM Athorities say a 38-year-old man shot inside his car and a 45-year-old woman shot on Chicago's North Side were killed in weekend violence.

Posted: 7:36 PM Strong winds helped wildfires grow Sunday, burning more than 285 square miles in northwest Nebraska and southwest South Dakota.

Updated: 7:35 PM GasBuddy.com says the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is $3.80. That's up 13 cents from a year ago and the highest price ever recorded during Labor Day weekend.

Posted: 7:31 PM The U.N. children's fund and activists are reporting a sharp spike in the death toll in Syria.

Posted: 7:14 AM Hundreds of students have taken part in a candlelight vigil in New York for Daniel Fernandez, a 16-year-old who was killed during a bus trip to a party in New Jersey Friday night.

Posted: 7:12 AM The start of a new era for Penn State football didn't work out the way fans had hoped.

Posted: 7:10 AM Republican Paul Ryan now says he didn't run a marathon in less than three hours as he claimed in a nationally broadcast interview.

Posted: 12:51 AM Police rescued a 17-year-old Nevada girl early Saturday morning to end her 21-hour kidnapping ordeal, and arrested her two alleged abductors.

Posted: 12:37 AM As the remnants of Hurricane Isaac pushed their way up the Mississippi valley on Saturday, spinning off severe thunderstorms and at least four tornadoes, some on the Gulf Coast were impatient with the pace of restoring power days after the storm dragged through the region.

Posted: 5:11 PM Authorities say the gunman in the New Jersey supermarket shooting fired at at least six employees, including one outside the store, before killing himself.