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Retired Col. Peter Mansoor was an aide to Gen. David Petraeus during the U.S. surge in Iraq. NPR's Scott Simon asks him to weigh in on U.S. military options now, with Iraq fracturing.

Dozens of family members are sharing a 2-bedroom apartment in a different part of Gaza City. Family patriarch and company founder Jabar Sukar says his losses are at least a couple million dollars.

With a shaky cease-fire holding, Israel is starting to take stock of how much the monthlong war with Hamas will cost.

As many as a half-million undocumented immigrants, including more and more children, make dangerous 1,450-mile trips atop this network of freight trains each year.

President Obama has had an eventful visit to Europe, which included attending the 70th D-Day commemoration in Normandy.

The number of tuberculosis cases is far higher than previously thought. And Ebola is making some patients stay away from hospitals. Yet the mortality rate is dropping.

Only three Kansas City area hospitals received grades of A in the latest hospital safety report card issued by The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit group…

Dalyn Schmitt formed the Heartland Regional Alcohol and Drug Assessment Center (RADAC) in 1998, building on state-funded services previously provided by…

A year and a half ago, a local safety-net clinic underwent one of the most significant changes in its more than four decades of serving the metropolitan…

A proposed 24-hour extension to Saturday's humanitarian cease-fire didn't last past Sunday morning. Hamas, which rejected that truce, says it is now willing to accept a new cease-fire.