The calorie counting that defined dieting for so long is giving way to other considerations, like the promise of more fiber or natural ingredients. That is chipping away at the popularity of products like Diet Coke, Lean Cuisine and Special K, which became weight-watching staples primarily by stripping calories from people’s favorite foods.
Subway says an ingredient dubbed the “yoga mat chemical” will be entirely phased out of its bread by next week.
A Boston Marathon bombing survivor says in a tweet that she left a Boston television studio in tears before a taping of NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
A lot more people are about to get a chance to buy Google Glass, the Internet-connected eyewear that has become the hottest accessory in geek fashion.
Two associates of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez were indicted Friday on murder charges in the shooting death of a man last summer about a mile from Hernandez’s home, prosecutors said.
Three NFL players are named in a police report involving a woman who passed out in a hotel and later woke up in a hospital not knowing how she got there, though no one has been charged with a crime, authorities said Thursday.
Investigators do not yet know what caused a FedEx tractor-trailer to veer across a grassy highway median and slam into a bus, killing 10 people, but they are looking into various factors, the California Highway Patrol said Friday.
A Houston woman was sentenced to life in prison Friday for fatally stabbing her boyfriend with the 5½-inch stiletto heel of her shoe, striking him at least 25 times in the face and head.
As the prosecutor tries to shred his version of events on the night he shot and killed his girlfriend, Oscar Pistorius denies assertions that he’s telling lies. Here’s a look at the main points of contention at Pistorius’ murder trial.
Nine people were killed Thursday in a three-vehicle crash involving a bus carrying high school students on a visit to a college.
A manhunt across Florida ended Thursday with the surrender of a driver blamed in a deadly crash at a day care that injured 14 and killed a 4-year-old girl who was sitting in a classroom awaiting her afternoon snack.
A White House official says Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning from the Obama administration just a week after the close of the rocky enrollment period for President Barack Obama’s health care law.
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said institutional reform centered on more training and tools for officers is needed to curb the “patterns of excessive force” that were turned up by a civil investigation of the Albuquerque Police Department.
The Florida Highway Patrol says a vehicle crashed into a day care center in an Orlando, Fla., suburb and killed one child and injured 14 others.
North and South America, get ready for the first eclipse of the year — in color. And while you watch one of this year’s four eclipses, know that it could spell the demise of a NASA spacecraft called LADEE.
