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"Being alive is a risk," Anne Dufourmantelle said. She died Friday at the beach in Saint-Tropez while trying to save a drowning child.

Local leaders say they want to find compassionate solutions for homelessness, but critics say the city isn’t working fast enough.

The president and his team are actively undermining the Affordable Care Act markets, NPR's Alison Kodjak reports.

Charlotte has one of the fastest growing apartment markets in the country. And that’s a boon for another type of business. One that deals with waste. Pet…

Also: Sen. McCain returns to vote on a health care bill; a federal judge blocks deportations of hundreds of Iraqis; and the singers of the popular "Despacito" don't want Venezuelan leaders to use it.

Archaeologists know hunter-gatherers traversed highland areas thousands of years ago, but presumed they spent most of their time in lowland areas.

Girl Scouts CEO Sylvia Acevedo has a background in technology, and is encouraging girls to discover opportunities in science and other fields.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Elizabeth Paton about Michael Kors buying shoe and bag retailer Jimmy Choo for $1.2 billion.

Sen. John McCain — who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer — made a dramatic return to the Senate Tuesday and voted yes in the GOP effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.

The "surprising" success of the raunch-com Girls Trip didn't particularly surprise us; we talk about precisely where this "out-of-nowhere" hit came from.

Steve Scalise, who was critically wounded by a gunman who fired on a congressional baseball practice in June, has left a Washington, D.C., hospital to begin a period of intensive rehabilitation.

The blind singer and guitarist had a sweet tenor voice and a gentle guitar that made him the best-selling Aboriginal artist of all time in Australia.

Underneath high-rise apartment buildings along the 2-mile island, an automated trash disposal system whisks away nearly 6 tons of trash per day through pipes and tubes.

Charlotte is known as the headquarters for several major banks - earning it the title of third largest banking city in the country. But Uptown's focus on…

CNN's Maggie Lake discusses the U.K.'s promised ban, new earnings for U.S. automakers and a plan from Lyft to develop its own self-driving car technology.

Public opinion on health care is often inconsistent, even incoherent.

Also: Women with high risk pregnancies may develop heart disease; a NASA space craft will get a close-up of Jupiter's Great Red Spot; and China tests a space station habitat - on Earth.

If you have some time to get away this summer, which lakes around the country should you visit?

The Iraqi government has declared the city of Mosul liberated after nine months of heavy fighting against ISIS. High casualties and destruction have overshadowed the celebration.

Are sanctions on China the way to send a message to North Korea? We’ll hear the case and pushback.