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Italy's Coffee Culture Brims With Rituals And Mysterious Rules

Can you drink cappuccino after breakfast? Should you take espresso in a cup or a glass? Italy, perhaps the spiritual home of coffee, has much to say about when and how to enjoy it.

A bullet hole is seen on June 19 on a gate at the Eugene Simpson Stadium Park, the site where House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise was shot by gunman James Hodgkinson, in Alexandria, Va.

Rep. Steve Scalise In Fair Condition After Another Surgery For Infection

Scalise was shot at a baseball practice for Republican members of Congress in mid-June. He was re-admitted to the intensive care unit last month, and required multiple new surgeries.

Texas Police Make Odd Withdrawal From ATM: A Man Who Was Trapped Inside

Customers who visited an ATM in Corpus Christi, Texas, kept receiving a curious note with their receipts: "Please help." Finally, someone contacted the police. "It was just crazy," an officer said.

Venus Williams returns to Britain's Johanna Konta during her victory in a semifinal match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London on Thursday.

Venus Williams Reaches Wimbledon Final At Age 37

"This year's been amazing," Venus Williams says after reaching her second Grand Slam final of the 2017 season.

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on his to his office on Thursday at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Senate Health Care Bill Revisions Released In Attempt To Appease GOP Critics

In need of more votes, Senate leaders have produced a new bill that offers billions more in opioid epidemic assistance but it keeps proposed cuts to Medicaid spending.

A protester cries as he mourns jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo during a demonstration outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong on Thursday. Officials say China's most prominent political prisoner, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, has died at 61.

Tears And Anger: World Responds To Death Of Chinese Dissident

Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo was diagnosed with liver cancer this year and died Thursday, partway through a prison sentence. Beijing did not allow him to travel abroad for treatment.

The HHS inspector general found that some 22,000 Medicare Part D beneficiaries seem to be doctor shopping for opioids — obtaining large amounts prescribed by four or more doctors and filled at four or more pharmacies.

'Extreme' Opioid Use And Doctor Shopping Still Plague Medicare

One-third of all Medicare recipients were prescribed opioids last year, the HHS inspector general says, with more than half a million getting high doses for at least three months.

With an American honeybee queen for a mother and a European honeybee drone for a father, this worker bee has a level of genetic diversity unseen in the U.S. for decades. Researchers at Washington State University hope a deeper gene pool will give a new generation of honeybees much-needed genetic traits, like resistance to varroa mites. The parasite kills a third of American honeybees each year.

No Offense, American Bees, But Your Sperm Isn't Cutting It

U.S. bees are in trouble, and one of the major threats is a deadly parasite called varroa mite. So researchers are importing sperm from European bees resistant to mites to toughen up America's stock.

A woman walks with a Syrian flag during a rally for World Refugee Day across from the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 20.

U.S. Refugee Admissions Pass Trump Administration Cap Of 50,000

The Supreme Court's decision to allow part of President Trump's travel ban to take effect means that starting on July 13, many already-vetted refugees will be denied entry to the U.S.

The rate of serious medication errors that occur outside of health care facilities doubled from 2000 to 2012, a new study finds.

More People Are Making Mistakes With Medicines At Home

A study analyzing data from poison control centers finds that the rate of serious medication errors outside health care settings doubled between 2000 and 2012.

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