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A mom wrote a kids' book on grief. She was just convicted of her husband's murder

A Utah jury convicted Kouri Richins of fatally spiking her husband's drink with fentanyl in 2022. Prosecutors said she was hoping to collect millions of dollars from multiple life insurance policies.

They gave her business a lifeline, then froze all her money

A murky corner of the financial world is now the fastest-growing source of funding for small businesses. One state, Connecticut, had given these lenders unusual power. That may be about to change.

Trump unleashes curse-filled social media rant at Iran after U.S. rescues colonel

In a profanity-laden post on Truth Social, President Trump lashed out at Iran and injected new volatility into the conflict, hours after U.S. forces carried out a high-risk rescue mission.

2 U.S. planes are down and Iran hits Gulf refineries as the war wraps its 5th week

An F-15 went down in Iran and a second Air Force plane crashed near the Strait of Hormuz as the war capped a week of intensified fighting.

Hospital employees walk underground in a hallway at Galilee Medical Center, a community hospital in Nahariya, in northern Israel.

Hospitals in Israel move underground to keep working amid rockets from Lebanon

Across Israel, especially in the north, hospitals are setting up underground or fortified care facilities as fallout from war with Hamas intensifies fighting with militants in neighboring Lebanon.

Cori Roberts of St. Cloud, Minnesota, incurred more than $8,000 in medical bills after she was diagnosed at CentraCare with early-stage cervical cancer. She says the health system told her she made too much — about $41,000 a year — to qualify for financial aid.

As ranks of uninsured grow, charity care can be hard to come by at many hospitals

An investigation of hospital data and charity care programs shows most Minnesota hospitals provide little financial aid to patients and often make assistance difficult to get.

Mayor Edilberto Molina (right), alongside Lt. Col. Óscar Usme aboard a well-armed Colombian Navy boat, tour the Caguán River which flows past Cartagena del Chairá.

Facing death threats, a Colombian mayor makes a daring visit to the town he runs

Mayor Edilberto Molina relocated to a nearby town last year after drug-trafficking guerrillas threatened to kill him. He's not the only Colombian politician forced away by threats from criminal gangs.

The scale of Starfield is enormous, as are the possibilities for players.

Inside the making of Starfield — one of the biggest stories ever told

Starfield's story shoots for the stars. How much players like it will have big consequences here on Earth.

Vladan Jakovljevic checks his beehives outside the village of Gornje Nedeljice, in the fertile Jadar Valley, in western Serbia, on Aug. 6.

A lithium mine in Serbia could rev up Europe's e-vehicles, but opposition is fierce

A proposed lithium mine in Serbia is spurring protests over its potential impact on the environment. The mineral is in high demand because it’s crucial for the batteries that run electric vehicles.

Demonstrators protest against the redrawing of voting maps to benefit one political party over another in elections outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2019.

Why some longtime gerrymandering opponents are reconsidering their strategies

The congressional redistricting fights that President Trump sparked in Texas, California and other states have led some advocacy groups to reconsider their strategies against partisan gerrymandering.

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