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Forty percent of food in the U.S. goes uneaten each year. The major problem is also a major opportunity for startups like Food Cowboy and CropMobster, which are trying to cash in by connecting sellers of excess food to people in need of it.

In a vote that has become something of a tradition, only one country in the U.N. General Assembly agreed with the United States that its embargo of Cuba should continue. The final count in the vote was 188-2.

Prosecutors say the Moldovan dancer's presence on the ship at the time of its crash may have been a distraction to the captain.

Farmers and small processors are marketing local canned and dry goods under the CSA model. They call small batch food processing "back-breaking work." But many of them are in it to build their local food economy.

Commentator Frank Deford has some theories about why NASCAR is having trouble expanding its audience.

Gas prices are down sharply. Grocery costs haven't budged lately. Meanwhile, the housing recovery is slowing. Amid evidence of continued sluggishness in the economy, the Federal Reserve says it's not ready yet to end its easy-money policy.

A suspect was shot and is in custody, authorities say, and at least six victims are being treated. Flights are delayed or diverted. Authorities have told local news outlets that the incident began around 9:30 a.m. local time when a TSA employee was shot at a security checkpoint.

Iranian American journalist Hooman Majd wrote a memoir about his family's one-year sojourn in Tehran. Majd and host Scott Simon discuss his new book, The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran.

Thorsten Heins took over the struggling mobile company last year, but his tenure was marked by product flops.

The island's rich biodiversity is increasingly threatened by slash-and-burn agriculture and climate change. A leading example is the greater bamboo lemur, whose numbers have dwindled due to a shrinking supply of the fresh bamboo they depend on.