Rescue workers rushed Tuesday to get aid into flooded communities in New Jersey and Vermont, where many residents remain stranded in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene.
Take a look at the aftermath of Hurricane Irene as the Northeast deals with damage.
The food pyramid has been dismantled in favor of a simple plate icon that urges Americans to eat a more plant-based diet.
Michelle Obama unveils the replacement for the food pyramid, a plate that aims to help people make better food choices.
Remember the food pyramid, the old symbol that showed us what a healthy diet looked like?
Let's drain some of the tension out of the room: I don't care what fundraisers at radio stations say in private conversations. I listen to my local National Public Radio affiliate every morning.
A conservative filmmaker captures video of controversial remarks made by an NPR executive. CNN's Brian Todd reports.
CNN's Matthew Chance reports on concerns that crops planted for Russia's wheat harvest will be weak.
Ninette Sosa reports on updated dietary guidelines that urges limited salt intake for some and trans fat cuts for all.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a new proposed rule Thursday designed to strengthen school breakfast and lunch nutrition standards -- part of the Obama administration's attempt to crack down on an epidemic of childhood obesity.
In December, President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act into law.
Nutritional information will be featured on 40 of the most popular cuts of meat and poultry products by 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a statement Wednesday.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a $1.15 billion measure to fund a settlement initially reached between the Agriculture Department and minority farmers more than a decade ago.
The U.S. House on Tuesday passed a $1.15 billion measure to fund a settlement initially reached between the Agriculture Department and minority farmers more than a decade ago.
Rep. Steve King and Dr. John Boyd face off over proposed settlements for black farmers and whether fraud is a problem.
Global weather disruptions have boosted food prices this fall, but one thing that hasn't changed is the annual migration of workers to farms. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack says that between 50% and 60% of the food Americans eat has been handled by immigrants (legal or not). Here are some key facts about the migrant economy.
Across the road from his cornfield in Colo, Iowa, family farmer Keith McKinney pulls out his cell phone and checks the latest market prices from the Chicago Board of Trade.
Dana Woldow issues a challenge to every member of Congress: "Try school cafeteria food in your district. Then see if you continue to make the same decisions about how you fund the program."
A former Agriculture Department employee who was forced to resign last month, then received an apology and a job offer she turned down, said Wednesday she hopes to continue to work on the issue of race relations in America.
Shirley Sherrod, who received an apology after being forced to resign from the Agriculture Department in July, declined an offer Tuesday to serve as the agency's deputy director of the Office of Advocacy and Outreach.
Shirley Sherrod says she could do more without being a full-time USDA employee.
Shirley Sherrod, who received an apology after being forced to resign from the Agriculture Department, will meet Tuesday with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to discuss a job offer, a department official confirmed Saturday.
Shirley Sherrod got her wish Thursday: a conversation with President Barack Obama about her forced resignation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
If Shirley Sherrod had 30 seconds with conservative website blogger Andrew Breitbart, her response would be simple.
Shirley Sherrod has words for a blogger who posted her speech on his website that eventually led to her losing her job.
CNN's Khalil Abdallah and Shawna Shepherd profile a man on a mission to get black farmers $1.25 billion owed to them.
Money to pay for a discrimination lawsuit brought against the Department of Agriculture by black farmers remains stuck in a legislative body described as a place where bills go to die.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday he apologized to Shirley Sherrod for forcing her to resign from her government job in Georgia based on incomplete and misleading reports of a speech she gave.
Fmr. USDA employee Shirley Sherrod watches as her resignation is discussed during the White House briefing.
White House aides said Wednesday they do not expect President Barack Obama to call Shirley Sherrod, the black former USDA employee who resigned after a video clip of her discussing a white farmer surfaced earlier this week.
The USDA plans to take another look at the case of former Agricultre Department official Shirley Sherrod.
While officials say the White House didn't ask for Shirley Sherrod's resignation, the former black Agriculture Department employee insisted Tuesday that the push for her to step down came from the Obama administration.
A 20th body was found Monday from last week's flash flood that inundated an Arkansas campground, and a search for more possible victims was continuing, officials said.
Seven year old Kylee Sullivan's family mourns her death in a flash flood. CNN's Casey Wian reports.
The warning system intended to notify campers on federal land about potentially devastating weather will be re-examined in Arkansas and throughout the nation, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Saturday.
Families are still wait for news about their loved ones following flash flooding that swept through an Arkansas campsite.
African-American farmers hoping for government settlement money in a racial bias case met with lawmakers Wednesday and called on Congress to come up with a way to fund the $1 billion deal.
Retired military officers are warning that school lunches are making kids too overweight to join the military.
More than a quarter of young adults are unable to meet physical requirements to join the military, creating a potential threat to national security, a group of retired armed forces leaders said Tuesday.
Black farmers hoping for government settlement money in a racial bias case better not bet the crop this Spring, until Congress finds a way to pay for the $1 billion deal. A meeting Wednesday at the White House may not have provided much encouragement.
Next month, the Vidalia Onion Committee, a Georgia group that promotes the consumption of sweet onions, will roll out 6-foot cardboard cutouts of the ogre Shrek as a tie-in to the latest film in the series, "Shrek Forever After."
The head of the National Black Farmers Association said Thursday the U.S. government has agreed to pay qualified farmers $50,000 each to settle claims of racial bias.
The H1N1 virus has been confirmed in a sample taken from a pig that was displayed at the Minnesota State Fair, the first time the virus has been found in a U.S. pig, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday.
Top Obama administration officials outlined several new initiatives to safeguard the country's food supply Tuesday, saying the recent spate of food-borne illnesses is unacceptable.
President Obama signed a memorandum Wednesday designed to save the federal government $40 billion a year by overhauling what Obama calls the "broken system of government contracting."
President Obama announces his plan to cut back on wasteful spending including cutting "what we don't need."
The first time that the 11 University of Iowa students met Associate Professor David Redlawsk in their political-science seminar, they could see former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack over his shoulder while Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar's voice boomed in the background.
What's the score? That's easy to tell in a basketball game. It's a little harder to tell in politics, where nobody's voting yet. So how do you keep score in a presidential race where nobody will be voting for nearly a year?
The timing of Tom Vilsack's decision to abandon his 2008 Democratic bid for the White House on Friday may have surprised supporters, but the outcome itself did not come as a shock to those closely following the intense pace and cost of the contest.
Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack said Friday he is pulling out of the 2008 Democratic race for president, citing financial difficulties in a campaign that lasted 15 weeks.
Recently re-elected Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York is twice as popular as her nearest Democratic rivals in the 2008 presidential race, according to a new CNN poll.
With more than two years and 10 months until the next presidential election, some potential 2008 Democratic hopefuls aren't wasting anytime wooing voters.
How did Howard Dean, whose presidential campaign got derailed by endless replays of a barbaric yawp, go from public laughingstock to party leader?
Another election so soon?
Set to address his party's convention Wednesday night, vice presidential candidate John Edwards is perhaps the best-known of the Democrats' rising stars.
Sen. John Kerry may reveal his choice for running mate early next week, a Democratic source said Thursday.
This week in The Inside Edge, senators take on President Bush, generals are once again in fashion and Sen. John Kerry has a good friend in Iowa.
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