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Last summer, a Chinese-American woman contacted NPR's Frank Langfitt with an unusual request: to help find her troubled sister, who'd vanished in southwest China. A difficult journey followed.

In the age of Venmo and mobile deposits, checks are fading. That's having a wide impact, from the Postal Service to check-printing companies. But many still find room for checks in their lives.

State regulators say opt-out plans don't include benefits required by state law. Also, the Department of Labor has begun looking at whether these plans in Oklahoma and Texas violate federal law.

Despite the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, Texas still has 6 million uninsured people, low Medicaid reimbursement rates and narrow choices of doctors and hospitals for many who are insured.

In important Super Tuesday states with a high number of born-again voters, Ted Cruz is losing to Donald Trump and Marco Rubio is eating into his support with evangelicals.

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In stump speeches since his loss in South Carolina, Bernie Sanders has taken shots at Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. He's also seemed to temper his talk of political revolution.

An NPR poll finds that many people have a low opinion of the health care system, yet they like their doctors. The perception of quality of care varies according to income.

In challenging the FBI, Tim Cook has put himself and Apple front and center in a national debate on digital privacy. But a look at his record makes his confrontation with the government inevitable.

A newly released report says some areas of the U.S. have recovered from the Great Recession much more than others.