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Wendy Komac is a well-seasoned business woman who spent a career at Fortune 500 companies. Her current venture, though, hits closer to home. “I've got a decade of darkness that I'd prefer not to repeat or remember,” said Komac. “I sobered up when I was 27, and honestly I can remember my fifth day of detox like it was yesterday. So I know how painful and bad that is.”

Close to a million college kids use Piazza. Pooja Sankar, the apps' creator, says her company can't solve all the problems for women in computer science but she hopes it's making a difference.

China's president Xi Jinping arrives in Washington, D.C., for a two-day state visit. It comes as relations between the two countries are turbulent. Analysts say this will be President Obama's most difficult summit to date.

Many families must sign a binding arbitration agreement when a loved one is admitted to a nursing home, pledging not to sue if something goes wrong. Proposed rules would ban that requirement.

More Americans than ever are signing up for fantasy sports leagues. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Mike Pesca, host of The Gist podcast, about fantasy leagues and gambling.

A new Vanderbilt University study found that Tennessee's Voluntary Pre-K for low-income children has no lasting benefits, stirring up an age-old debate in education circles.

A clump of a mammoth's fur bought on eBay led scientists to a long list of ways the extinct species was special. One specific gene likely played a role in helping mammoths thrive in icy weather.

The house-cleaning of top administrators and guards at the prison where two inmates escaped comes as the FBI begins its own investigation into possible corruption and drug dealing at the facility.

They laughed, they jeered, and no one helped when she had to haul her belonging up a hill in New York. But in Ghana, people are more than eager to lend a hand.

Growing up in India, Deepak Singh loved eggs. He sang the jingle, "Sunday or Monday, make every day an egg day." So he was sad to hear that eggs have been banned from school lunches in Madhya Pradesh.