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On a trip to Chicago, Lavonne Schaafsma lost her purse. Two women saw a man rifling through it — and stepped in to help.

In the narrow streets of the Sabra refugee camp in Beirut, there is an apartment without windows. It's a rather gloomy place for a kindergarten, but the only place available for 70 Syrian refugee children from cities like Aleppo, Homs and Deraa. A group of volunteers come to help the children overcome their traumas through music, drawing and theater classes once a week. Some kids don't speak for weeks when they first arrive to Lebanon. A recent U.N. report warned that a "lost generation" of Syrian children is growing. The organization Save the Children reports talks about mass destruction of schools and lack of schooling.

Shares in former President Trump's company plunged the day after his debate with Vice President Harris.

Carol Cohn, known to her family as "Mommom," died from COVID in 2020. Her granddaughter Melanie Gardiner says Cohn loved to spoil her grandchildren with cookies and had a great sense of humor.

That's more than the number of the critically endangered species remaining. The orangutans have been hit hard by deforestation and hunting. The animals are native to the island.

Jazz Night In America's video tribute to the artists lost in 2022.

A report from the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that 27 million people have recently lost health insurance, which most people get through their jobs. Getting new coverage can be complicated.

The singer, rapper, author and mogul unleashes a righteous rebuttal to the limitations placed on women traveling alone in the world.

In 1943, a Marine pilot kept a diary during his service in World War II. Lt. Charles C. Winnia chronicled his missions flying against the Japanese in the Pacific, and his love for a girl back in Nashville, Tenn. Winnia was shot down, and never came home. His diary -- nearly forgotten for over 60 years -- was recently discovered and read by his sweetheart, Violet Jane Watkins, for the first time. Read diary excerpts and hear Watkins read Winnia's last letter to her.

Nell Freudenberger's new novel is a bittersweet love story — about a lost friend, a missed romance, and an all-consuming career — that uses dense scientific concepts to illuminate everyday emotions.