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With wine consumption in France plummeting, winemakers are breaking with tradition to cater to evolving tastes. One new product, Rouge Sucette, is made from 75 percent grapes, 25 percent water, sugar and cola flavoring.

As Aurora marks the one year anniversary of the mass shooting at a movie theater, some community leaders in Denver say there are other shootings that deserve attention too.

In an experiment, chimpanzees and orangutans recalled cues they were exposed to three years earlier. Scientists say this strongly hints at a trait many believed was uniquely human.

Singer-songwriter Sam Beam -- who's better known by his musical persona Iron & Wine -- performed at the Boston Public Library as part of a new music series at WBUR called "Off the Record."

Now that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed a law that critics say could force most of the state's abortion clinics to close, those who sell abortion-inducing pills in Mexico expect a jump in business.

The details have not been finalized, but the sides appear close to resuming full-fledged negotiations after years of stalemate.

As the East Coast sweats its way through another heat wave, not everyone has the luxury of air conditioning. In the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan, the mostly Dominican population has moved their lives outside, where the city has kept the parks open and turned on water sprinklers.

Former CIA officer Robert Seldon Lady is on his way back to the U.S. after being briefly detained in Panama. An Italian court had convicted the agent in the first trial anywhere involving the practice known as extraordinary rendition, in which a terrorist suspect is kidnapped and transferred to a country where torture is practiced.

School officials say they have to take tough steps to close a $1 billion budget deficit. Teachers say the administration is going back on a promise to keep cuts away from classrooms.

With a very personal message about the Trayvon Martin case and race relations, the president "connected with so many African-American men," says Detroit radio host Angelo Henderson. He's among many commenting on the president's remarks.