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Assisted living-type facilities often are subject to less scrutiny than nursing homes. Investigations in Vermont and elsewhere have revealed patterns of poor care and deaths.

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

Most analysts think the world currently makes more oil than it needs — and the kind of oil abundant in Venezuela is a particularly hard-to-refine type of crude. So would U.S. companies even want it?

Nearly 280 filmmakers entered the Internet Archive's annual contest celebrating creative freedom without copyright restrictions.

In a test of the Obama administration's ability to smoothly implement the sweeping health care overhaul law, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services have just 90 days to launch an insurance program for people who can't get private coverage because of health problems.

PacWest and Western Alliance were among the smaller lenders that saw shares tumble even as the banks sought to reassure their customers and investors..

Last year a record number of people died from heat-related causes in Maricopa County. This year, local government is spending more on heat mitigation than ever before, with the help of ARPA funds.

The Republican presidential field is the most diverse it has ever been, raising questions about race, identity and immigration for candidates of color in an overwhelmingly white party.

Each year in northern Pennsylvania, hundreds of stargazers attend gatherings under increasingly rare dark skies to look for faint galaxies, star clusters and nebulae.

Boxer and laborer Eric Tucker created hundreds of paintings of his home town — and kept them secret, stashed around his house. Now, almost two years after his death, he has a museum exhibition.