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Pokemon Go is the latest game to use something called augmented reality which combines virtual and real worlds on a smartphone screen. Released only last week by Nintendo, it is a runaway success.

"You'd think cake would be apolitical, and yet here we are," says one of several D.C.-area pastry chefs who wrought their support for gay marriage into elaborate wedding cakes.

After a month of record rainfall in France, rivers have flowed over their banks and nearly half the country is on flood alert. In Paris, the Seine river is 19 feet above its normal level.

Winter Olympic sports combine grace, beauty and danger, where athletes defy and even embrace risk. In downhill skiing, a racer has to find confidence amid the terror of a headlong plunge down a mountain.

When Ethiopia barred its best distance runner from competing in the 2016 Olympics, many saw it as an act of ethnic discrimination. Another runner from the same ethnic group says he was exiled.

Big league poker tournaments put millions of dollars at stake for the players. But behind the scenes there is another money game going on, something of a mini-Wall Street.

Nearly every year a decades-old school busing program is threatened by the Kentucky legislature in one of the state's largest — and most segregated — cities.

Ian Read talks with Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson about how one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies is adjusting to the new administration.

More than two-thirds of Californians who didn't have health insurance before the Affordable Care Act took full effect in 2014 have it now. A Kaiser Family Foundation survey documents the changes.

Strong wind gusts toppled two large steel electrical towers, and part of a solar power plant burst into flames. The storm also knocked a golfing range's safety net onto nearby houses.