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Minda Dentler handcycling at mile 32 of The Kona Ironman in Hawaii, 2013. She's the first female wheelchair athlete to complete the Ironman World Championship. When she was an infant, her legs were paralyzed by polio. "I wish all people who may be on the fence about vaccination could really meet me," she says. "I'm a reminder to families that they should vaccinate their children."

Striving to outrace polio: What's it like living with the disease

As polio makes a comeback, Minda Dentler reflects on her life with the disease. Paralyzed as an infant in India, she's gone on to become a champion wheelchair triathlete and an immunization advocate.

Michigan’s new redistricting commission sued in anticipation of missing deadlines

The citizen-led commission in charge of drawing new political maps in Michigan is being sued because it’s unlikely to meet deadlines.Serial litigant…

The exterior of the New York Stock Exchange last week. Stocks surged after Pfizer said its experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective and after former Vice President Joe Biden was elected president.

Stocks Soar To Record Highs On Vaccine Hopes

Stocks surged after Pfizer said its experimental vaccine was more than 90% effective and after former Vice President Joe Biden was elected president.

Taylor Korn, and her roommate, Jorge Zaragoza, with their dogs Gerti (left) and Gidget. The third dog is Scarlett, a rescue dog and the mother of the other two pups, belongs to Korn's friends and was elsewhere during the fire.

After losing everything in the Colorado wildfires, she's struggling to start over

Taylor Korn, a lifelong Boulder, Colo., resident, had already lost her father and grandmother this past summer. Then a wildfire took her home and two dogs.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly in the early stages of negotiating a plea deal related to the corruptions charges he faces.

Netanyahu in talks to reach plea bargain in corruption trial

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who's on trial for corruption, is in talks to reach a plea bargain. If it goes forward, it could force him to take a break from politics.

In a year of water quality reckoning, national imperative is impeded

Law and policy treat farms as special class of polluter.

<strong>April 20:</strong> Nadiya, 62, points to her destroyed home in the village of Moshchun, northwest of Kyiv, as more than 5 million Ukrainians have now fled their country following the Russian invasion, according to the United Nations.

Photos: Mariupol evacuations fail as the U.S. agrees to more aid for Ukraine

Russia continues to work to get control of eastern Ukraine as the country's forces refuse to surrender.

Elephants at a water pan in Hwange National Park in north western Zimbabwe. The sanctuary has a capacity for 15,000 elephants, but it currently hosts more than 45,000 according to ZimParks, the country's wildlife management authority.

Drought is driving elephants closer to people. The consequences can be deadly

Zimbabwe's elephant population is growing, but climate change makes rainfall unpredictable. Animals travel farther in search of water now and often end up clashing with villagers for scarce resources

Permanent Representative of Kenya to the U.N. Martin Kimani, shown last year, delivered a speech criticizing Russian actions.

Kenyan U.N. ambassador compares Ukraine's plight to colonial legacy in Africa

Instead of looking back to an age of empire, Russia should accept Ukraine's borders and move on, Kenya's ambassador told a session of the U.N. Security Council.

Alex Youn has spent the year since his mother and sister's deaths trying to figure out what went wrong in their case. He discovered loopholes in the criminal justice system, and turned those loopholes into law to protect future domestic violence victims.

His mom and sister were killed by domestic violence. Now, he's trying to help others

Alex Youn's sister had taken legal steps to protect herself from her violent estranged husband. She and her mother were killed anyway. Youn used clues she left to change loopholes in Tennessee law.

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