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Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native Savannah, died on Saturday.

JPMorgan Chase is taking over First Republic after the troubled bank was placed in the FDIC's receivership in the latest failure in the banking system.

Among those who were in support of the ousted Florida principal was the director of Florence's Accademia Galleria, where Michelangelo's David is housed. On Friday, the two finally got to meet.

Members of health care sharing ministries pay monthly shares and pool their money to cover each others' expenses. Under the new health law, ministry members are exempt from the mandate to buy individual coverage. But they may not be covered for expensive pre-existing conditions.

A report from the Institute of Medicine says Medicare needs to make a "significant change" to the ways it evaluates salaries of health care workers and real estate costs. Major changes to these calculations would affect the bottom lines of thousands of practitioners and institutions.

Medicare's method of paying hospices a flat fee for each day a patient is receiving care there encourages operators of the facilities to seek out patients early on — and try to keep them as long as possible.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour recently asked Congress to give states a lump sum of money, known as a "block grant," to let them run Medicaid, the health care program for the poor and disabled. But Democrats argue that millions could lose health insurance as a result.

A recent study found that if you expect great sex after midlife, you're more likely to get it. Here's advice for seniors for how to make the most of your love life.

Prominent health care lobbyist Howard Cohen is returning to the Hill as a key committee staffer. He's the latest to go back to a staff job as Republicans take control of the House.

For decades, Eastwind Books was an anchor for the Bay Area's Asian American community. Now, the husband and wife duo behind it have decided to close the shop.