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Most big children's hospitals are nonprofits, but you wouldn't know that looking at the bottom lines of many of them. They're pouring billions of dollars into new buildings, adding beds and equipment and staff at the same time Washington, the states and employers grapple with health care spending.

"A record-high 81 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed," Gallup says.

The polio strains isolated from 10 children in China were linked to virus circulating in Pakistan. They're the first confirmed cases of polio identified in China since 1999, according to the World Health Organization.

The critically acclaimed sextet shows no signs of slowing down, as The Whole Love represents a new peak in its members' creativity.

Two other monks have chosen to protest China's restrictive control of their religion through self immolation. The latest news comes as the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government argue over the next incarnation of the Tibetan leader.

After 26 years in prison, Randall Lee Church was overwhelmed by a world he did not recognize, so he did what he could to go back to jail.

Community banks and credit unions are attracting consumers as big banks add fees for accounts that used to be free. Smaller institutions can still afford to offer the service because they aren't affected by a law that cuts debit card fees for large banks.

Wiseguy author Nicholas Pileggi shares the back story on Henry Hill — the central figure in the sensational mob tale that became the film GoodFellas.

For a long time, much of the world saw the eurozone sovereign debt crisis as Europe's problem. Now world leaders, including the United States, realize a eurozone meltdown could have dire consequences for everyone. They are working up a massive rescue plan whose contours are beginning to emerge. Although Britain does not use the euro, that nation's politicians are using their party conventions to issue dire warnings about the euro's fate. And one eminent economist is proposing a novel solution to limit the impact of the European debt crisis.

Stocks have been on the rise in Europe in advance of what's hoped to be a new agreement on resolving the zone's debt woes.