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Nearly 1 in 3 Medicare patients undergoes an operation in the final year of life. The benefits are often limited, but the costs and side effects can be substantial.

Both firms say customers will have to be 21 to buy a gun. Both are also putting new curbs on ammunition purchases in response to the Parkland, Fla., high school shootings.

Also: Afghanistan's leader calls for unconditional talks with the Taliban; Southern California officials fear mudslides and call evacuations ahead of a storm; and Barbra Streisand clones her dog.

NPR wants to hear what issues are motivating voters in Texas, which holds the first primary of the 2018 election season. Share your thoughts with us.

"The Olympics are great and all," but returning home was "way cooler than the Olympics," declared John Landsteiner, an engineer in Duluth, Minn.

Dick's Sporting Goods will stop selling assault-style firearms and won't sell guns to people under 21, the company's CEO said Wednesday. The company also issued a plea for "common sense gun reform."

"The right whales are at a point where more are dying than are being born," biologist Clay George says. "That's just not sustainable long-term."

The Bohras, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, practice cutting as a clandestine ritual. Now, the arrest of a Bohra doctor in Detroit for performing FGM has inspired a frank discussion in Pakistan.

The semi-automatic rifle has been in wide circulation for more than a half-century. In recent years, gunmen have used AR-15-style weapons to carry out many of the country's worst mass shootings.

Two weeks after a gunman killed 17 people at the high school, students returned to class Wednesday — this time joined by police officers, grief counselors and supporters cheering them on.