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Many people are getting hurt financially because mortgage rates rose sharply while they were waiting for their new homes to be built. And now it's hard or impossible to buy them. Share your story.

The defendants allegedly carried out a plot to steal $250 million from a nutrition program meant to serve needy children in Minnesota. Officials called it a "brazen scheme of staggering proportions."

Melissa Febos graduated from college with straight A's and a prestigious internship. She also led a secret life as a dominatrix. Her new memoir, Whip Smart, details her time working in a sex dungeon in midtown Manhattan. She describes what it was like to work for four years at the upscale S&M house.

Author Jag Bhalla catalogs the unique turns of phrase that different cultures use in his new book I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears.

The maker of Banana Boat Hair & Scalp Sunscreen Spray SPF 30 said trace amounts of the cancer-causing chemical benzene were found in the propellant that sprays the product from the can.

The home appliance brand Cosori received more than 200 reports of air fryers overheating, burning or melting — several of which led to minor burn injuries and property damage.

Customers began wondering why small bottles of Fireball Cinnamon were being sold in places that typically don't sell liquor in many states, such as gas stations and grocery stores.

President Obama pushed back against what some see as the irony of him expanding oil exploration while talking up climate change.

In Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, author Tristram Stuart chronicles how vast quantities of food are blithely tossed out daily in much of the developed world. He notes that South Korea recycles 97 percent of its food waste; the U.S., just 3 percent.

Sen. Barack Obama delivered what his campaign called a "major address on race, politics and unifying our country" in Philadelphia on Tuesday. NPR's Mara Liasson tells Renee Montagne that the speech is very powerful, very complex and "will likely be remembered as one of the most important speeches on race that a politician has ever given."