McClatchy-Tribune News Service

First lady Michelle Obama -- and some of her Chicago "sisters" in the White House -- launched a first-of-its-kind mentoring program this week with about 20 high school girls from...

The main problem with a supergroup, side project or whatever you want to call Monsters of Folk is how serious the musicians are about it. Jim James, however, probably doesn't...

Look at the tags on those Miley Cyrus dolls. Read the fine print on her CDs. Check the label on those Miley jeans you bought at Wal-Mart. There is a...

Teachers, experts or even students don't dispute the dangers presented by obsessively sending text messages: Some students text too much, text in inappropriate places (like the classroom), text in troubling...

This year's first round of college application deadlines hit around Nov. 1. So for seniors, after years of resume-building, it's crunch time. Sagan Smith, 22, remembers spending her senior year...

A long-gone species has returned home, not with a thunder of hooves, but with muffled snorts and a short gallop from muddy pen to grassy range. A baker's dozen of...

Stanford University researchers have fabricated the cells that make sperm and eggs, the components of human reproduction, shedding light on a little-understood stage of early human development and offering hope...

You've seen him in "Funny People," "I Love You, Man" and "Observe and Report." He's on NBC's "Parks & Recreation" as sleazeball Tom Haverford. And you'll soon see him in...

Menacing, metallic and mega-gun brandishing, the cyber super soldier looms over Richard Fleming's desk. It's not exactly typical for a professor's office at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park,...

The holidays will be here before you know it and when they do, you'll want to be in style for the season. Try deep berry-colored lipstick and gloss. It's the...