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Poet Tess Taylor reviews Jynne Dilling Martin's poetry collection, We Mammals in Hospitable Times, that drew much of its inspiration from her time in Antarctica.

A new book and study both show that the ability to rise from poverty to the middle class truly is shrinking. A child without married, educated parents starts life at a huge and worsening disadvantage.

The federal government now factors patient satisfaction ratings into the rates Medicare pays hospitals. Some hospitals with lower ratings are finding it's difficult to change patients' perceptions.

Forget the cathedrals and wine houses that have made Porto, Portugal, famous. A new guided tour takes visitors to back alleys and boarded-up businesses — the effects of Europe's economic crisis.

Oil production appears to be churning right along in Sidney. But leaders are bracing for a whole lot less oil tax revenue to pay for services that are stretched thin.

Saudi Arabia has agreed to introduce physical education for girls in its gender-segregated public schools. But there's opposition from hard-liners.

The University of Oklahoma has given members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon until midnight to move out of their fraternity house. A video surfaced of members singing and using a derogatory racist chant.

"I'm walking, talking, holding my baby, hugging my wife, so I just feel really good," U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert says as he is released from a Seoul hospital days after he was attacked.

The restaurant chain carried on a social media tradition of trying to outwit Apple's product announcements. Denny's succeeded — generating twice as many re-tweets and favorites as Apple.

The bus driver picked the wrong La Plagne on his GPS and wound up in southern France — no snow and no Alps might have been a clue that they were hundreds of miles off course.