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Casey Shively holds a photo of a family ski trip with his sister, Katie, and his father, Dan, in 1996. Dan Shively died in a memory care home after being violently attacked by another resident.

Staff and residents are ‘scared to death’ of violent patients at dementia care homes

Verbal, physical, and sexual aggression among dementia patients in long-term care facilities are alarmingly common. “There is a real problem with endemic violence,” one researcher says.

Hurricane Helene is forecast to hit Florida's northwestern coast late Thursday and then bring heavy rain and wind inland over the coming days.

Tropical Storm Helene churns a deadly path through Florida, Georgia and into the Carolinas

Helene made landfall late on Thursday in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 Hurricane. It weakened Friday morning to a tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 mph.

Husam Abukhedeir, a Palestinian neurosurgeon, left his native Gaza for the United Arab Emirates last November because he felt that conditions caused by the war had stripped him of his power as a physician — and endangered his family. Nearly 9 months have passed, and Abukhedeir does not see an end in sight to the suffering

Whatever happened to ... the Gaza neurosurgeon who faced a wrenching decision

Husam Abukhedeir, the chief neurosurgeon at Al-Shifa Hospital, helped the injured, watched many die, including his sister, then knew what he had to do to protect his family. How is he faring today?

A man places flowers in front of headstones in Section 60, which mark the final resting place of service men and women at Arlington National Cemetery on May 27 in Arlington, Va.

Arlington National Cemetery's Section 60 is a focus of controversy. What is the area?

Many U.S. servicemembers from Afghanistan and Iraq wars are interred in this solemn place. It made news after a cemetery official tried to prevent former President Trump's campaign from taking photos.

An attendee wears a backpack with a Taylor Swift sign during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Swifties for Kamala, a grassroots group not affiliated either with Swift or the Harris campaign, raised more than $140,000 for the Democratic presidential nominee after a call Tuesday night.

'Swifties for Kamala' think Harris is the 1 to beat Trump. And they want to help

By the end of their call Tuesday, 14,000 attendees reported registering to vote.

Lilla Lanivich, 13, and her service dog, Lopez, outside their family’s home in Rochester Hills, Mich. This year’s middle school winner of the NPR Student Podcast Challenge tells how her golden retriever, Lopez, helped restore her independence.

Chronic illness shattered this teen's life. Her service dog helped get it back

The middle school winner of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge tells how her golden retriever, Lopez, changed her life.

Public Health student Hanna Stutzman helps establish new native plantings at The College of New Jersey.

Bringing the wild things back to campus

The College of New Jersey is making room for native plants, and students are digging it.

A house for sale sits behind a sign that reads "sale pending" in San Diego, Aug. 14, 2013.

Homebuyers paying cash can expect to pay 10% less than those with mortgages

Homebuyers who can afford to purchase property with cash typically pay an average of 10% less than those who need to take out a mortgage, according to research revealed Tuesday by UC San Diego's Rady School of Management.

Lawrence Cheng, whose family owns seven Wendy's locations south of Los Angeles, works in the kitchen at his Wendy's restaurant in Fountain Valley, Calif., June 20, 2024. Cheng used to have nearly a dozen employees at his Fountain Valley location during the day. Now, he only schedules seven for each shift as he scrambles to absorb a dramatic jump in labor costs after a new California law boosted the hourly wage for fast food workers on April 1 from $16 to $20 an hour.

California fast food workers now earn $20 per hour. Franchisees are responding by cutting hours.

When California’s minimum wage increase went into effect in April, fast food workers across the state went from making $16 to $20 overnight. It's already having an impact, according to local operators for major fast food chains.

Servers take off for the "<em>Course des Cafes</em>" in front of City Hall in central Paris on Sunday.

Hurry up and wait: Servers speed-walk through Paris, reviving a century-old race

Some 200 servers speed-walked through Paris balancing trays of beverages and croissants on Sunday. Paris hasn't held a waiters race since 2011, but brought it back ahead of the Olympics.

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