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After Calf's Death, Orca Mother Carries It For Days In 'Tragic Tour Of Grief'

What began as a moment of joy ended in tragedy when the infant died last week. Since then its mother has refused to let go, holding her child tightly in what experts call a moving expression of grief.

30-year-old Dai Xuan, who works as the editor of a luxury magazine in Shanghai – and is pictured at the helm of a private jet - says the reason why she hasn't married yet is economic. She says she loves her job and she makes more than enough to support herself, which has made her pickier about who she dates.

China's Marriage Rate Plummets As Women Choose To Stay Single Longer

"Before, in China, you married to survive," says a Shanghai magazine editor. "Now I'm living well by myself, so I have higher expectations in marriage."

Some critically ill patients who received a CAR-T cell treatment have remained cancer-free for as long as five years, researchers say. But the price is high.

Insurers And Government Are Slow To Cover Expensive CAR-T Cancer Therapy

Treatment costs for the immunotherapy can run to more than $1 million. Some state Medicaid programs aren't paying for the treatment, and Medicare's complicated payment rates have hospitals worried.

Men fighting for Yemen's southern separatist movement Sunday in Aden, where at least 12 people have died in renewed violence.

Bloodshed Roils Yemen's South, Further Complicating An Already Complicated War

Separatists have traded gunfire with Yemen's government forces, shattering their uneasy alliance against the Houthi rebels. The broken pact could spell trouble for a Saudi-led coalition, too.

Composting food scraps is one way to reduce food waste, but preventing excess food in the first place is better, says the EPA.

Grocery Stores Get Mostly Mediocre Scores On Their Food Waste Efforts

A new report, "Supermarkets Fail to Make the Grade in Reducing Food Waste," scores the 10 largest grocery stores on how they handle food waste. No store got an A, but Walmart got a B.

A document developed by a New York end-of-life agency permits people who want to avoid the ravages of advanced dementia to make their final wishes known — while they still have the ability to do so. One version requests that all food and fluids be withheld under certain circumstances.

'Aggressive' Advance Directive Permits Halting Food And Water In Severe Dementia

Supporters call this right-to-die proposal the strongest move yet to document a person's advance wishes in cases of severe dementia. Critics say it would deny basic care to society's most vulnerable.

Panera Bread's website went down for part of Monday — eight months after the chain was warned that its site wasn't protecting sensitive customer data.

For Months, Panera Bread Website Reportedly Exposed Millions Of Customer Records

Panera's response was "half-baked," security analyst Brian Krebs said. Another researcher says he alerted the company to a "massive" flaw issue last August.

Why President Trump Can't Directly Order National Guard Troops To U.S.-Mexico Border

President Trump wants military troops to help guard the U.S.-Mexico border, but there are legal limits on what the military can do. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with George Mason University law professor Tim MacArthur about the Posse Comitatus Act.

Sen. Cory Gardner On North Korea Talks

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado about new doubts about a summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Diplomatic Moves Edge U.S.-North Korea Summit Closer To Reality

The former head of North Korean military intelligence is traveling to New York to discuss a summit, according to President Trump.

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