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McKayla Maroney stands on the podium at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. She says a team doctor molested her for years, including during the Olympics.

Olympic Gymnast McKayla Maroney Says She Was Molested For Years By Team Doctor

The gold medalist says Dr. Larry Nassar claimed he was giving her "medically necessary treatment." She says the abuse began on a team trip when she was 13 years old.

Philosophy professor Abby Everett Jaques of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created a class called Ethics of Technology to help future engineers and computer scientists understand the pitfalls of tech.

Solving The Tech Industry's Ethics Problem Could Start In The Classroom

Facebook, Google and other tech giants have been hit with problems they didn't anticipate their software creating. An MIT professor is teaching students that ethics is essential to their future work.

Even for conventional medical treatments that are covered under most health insurance policies, the large copays and high deductibles have left many Americans with big bills, says a health economist, who sees the rise in medical fundraisers as worrisome.

Patients Are Turning To GoFundMe To Fill Health Insurance Gaps

Medical fundraisers account for 1 in 3 of the website's campaigns and bring in more money than any other GoFundMe category. Americans' confidence they can afford health care is slipping, some say.

A woman enters an All American Check Cashing location in Brandon, Miss., in May. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed new rules to crack down on such lenders.

Consumer Watchdog Proposes New Rules On Payday Lenders

Regulations proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would require lenders to determine whether customers can repay within 30 days before issuing a loan.

Russia's Military Intelligence Agency Under Pressure

The Dutch government accused the agency of trying to hack the international chemical weapons watchdog. Then the U.S. indicted seven Russian military officials with conspiracy and money laundering.

Murder Trial Of Blackwater Guard Ends In Mistrial

Eleven years after Blackwater security guards killed more than a dozen civilians in Iraq, the retrial of one of the defendants ended in a mistrial. A court decides Friday whether he will be retried.

Police block off the area around the Laurel, Md., home of a suspect in a shooting at a newsroom in Maryland's capital earlier on Thursday.

What We Know About The Alleged Gunman At A Maryland Newsroom

Police have identified 38-year-old Jarrod W. Ramos as the man they say gunned down five people at the offices of the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday.

Camille Cosby at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., last month.

Camille Cosby Defends Bill Cosby, Says He Was The Victim Of 'Lynch Mobs'

The entertainer's wife had been largely absent during his sexual assault trial. She has now released a three-page blistering defense.

How Social Media Helped Spread Protest In Michael Brown Shooting

Colorlines Editor-at-Large Kai Wright and NPR's Scott Simon reflect on the reaction to Michael's Brown's fatal shooting in Ferguson, Mo.

'F' Is For Fraudster In A Family Novel For Our Modern Times

Daniel Kehlmann's F, about three brothers abandoned by their father, examines the detail of lives lived without integrity. It is brilliantly translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway.

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