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Medicaid was never intended to cover long-term care for everyone. Now it pays for nearly 40 percent of the nation's long-term care expenses, and the share is growing.

Police in Orlando, Fla., held a news conference to let people know more about what happened during Sunday's nightclub shooting. Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Carrie Johnson, who has new information.

Three months after ISIS was pushed out of Mosul, the eastern half of the Iraqi city is bustling and growing. But the badly damaged western half is in ruins, and its residents are angry and resentful.

He forced his 15-year-old daughter to marry a man in his 40s with little education and a reputation for drinking — and knew it was a mistake.

The president is meeting with students and teachers about school safety this week. The White House says he supports improving background checks, but the issue has languished after past shootings.

A South Korean man meant for his Twitter profile picture, with its backdrop of a North Korean flag, to be a visual parody of North Korean news programs. Now, Park Jong-kun may be charged with violating a security law from 1948. Critics say it's being used to stifle free speech on North Korea.

President Assad's former allies were turning on him in rapid succession, a sign of profound impatience with a leader who has failed to stem months of unrest that could explode into a regional conflagration. Up to 90 people, including Syrian troops, were killed in a gruesome wave of violence Monday, activists said.

Tiny Changes — a collection of covers from Frightened Rabbit — is intended as a celebration. But the project has taken on new weight after the death of the band's lead singer.

Women and children are requesting asylum at higher rates than men. Knowing that men prey on girls like her, 15-year-old Honduran Amaya cut her hair to avoid standing out after joining a group of boys.

Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are the two holdouts as Democrats and the White House try to reach a deal on a sweeping spending bill. But their policy demands may put them at odds.