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Price-shopping for coffee makers is easy. Finding the actual cost of a colonoscopy? Nearly impossible. But putting together a useful, comprehensive price-list for patients of the widely varying charges for various health procedures is difficult and expensive, states are learning.

The African country faces some of the toughest health problems in the world, including high rates of HIV and infant mortality. Many people in need turn to unauthorized private clinics for care.

Eric Garcetti says he wants to reinvent Los Angeles and promote its diversity, food and innovators — but first, he says, he's going to focus on a less-glamorous agenda: infrastructure.

A new book argues that Tyson's system treats farmers like "modern-day sharecroppers." Author Christopher Leonard looks at Tyson's inner workings and the not-so-independent farmers who raise the birds.

President Obama travels to Mexico on Wednesday to meet with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts. The three presidents are talking about the increased trade among their countries, 20 years since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The Michael Dunn trial became a flashpoint for ongoing debates about race, criminal justice, and politics that it's not capable of resolving.

The FBI is investigating an incident at the University of Mississippi, where vandals draped a noose on a statue of a civil rights pioneer. The statue on the Oxford campus commemorates the enrollment of the first black student at Ole Miss in 1962, which was accompanied by riots.

Duck Derbies are very popular in Wisconsin. Because they involve placing bets on rubber duckies dropped into a fast-moving river, they are technically illegal. Wisconsin lawmakers have passed a bill exempting rubber duck high-rollers from a ban on gambling.

The 29-year-old skier from Park City, Utah, is now the first American to have won two gold medals in Alpine skiing. His first came at the 2006 games in Torino, Italy.

President Viktor Yanukovych said he was working with opposition leaders to end the violence that has claimed more than two dozen lives in the past two days.