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The Affordable Care Act sets annual limits on the amount that people will owe out of pocket for prescription drugs starting in 2014. But sick people in some plans won't get relief until the following year because the federal government is giving certain health plans extra time to comply.

The settlement covers some 9 million owners of Hyundai or Kia vehicles. Affected models have been the target of thieves, fueled by a deadly trend that spread on social media.

Voter turnout for last year's elections was the second highest for a midterms since 2000, and close to half of voters cast ballots early or by mail, estimates from a Census Bureau survey show.

NPR's Don Gonyea says looking through his old baseball scorecards stirs up sweet memories from summers long past.

In Manhattan, witnesses saw a fireball at the apartment building on the Upper East Side, where a small plane crashed into a high-rise condominium. Reports indicate that N.Y. Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and one other person were killed, with two other possible fatalities.

From 1831 to 1998, the government separated some 150,000 Indigenous children from their families and sent them to residential schools where they routinely faced physical and sexual abuse.

The Parker Solar Probe's first passage through the corona, which lasted a few hours, is one of many that are planned for the mission, according to NASA. The next flyby is expected to occur in January.

Congress passed a complicated process that could avoid a potential federal default. It ends a months-long standoff as Republicans have refused to join Democrats in voting to increase the debt limit.

The White House cited the "ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity" in the Xinjiang region of China. U.S. athletes will compete in the Olympics.