Aging inmates and health-care costs
The number of imprisoned men and women age 65 and over increased by 63 percent between 2007 and 2010, even as the total U.S. prison population remained essentially flat. The increasing age of the nation’s inmates is causing steep rises in health-care costs for prison systems.
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Rick Perry's approval rating
Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s approval rating has fallen to 40 percent following his failed presidential bid, leaving him less popular in his solidly Republican home state than President Obama, with 43 percent.
The Dallas Morning News
Poitical donations from Wall Street
Political donations from wealthy individuals working in the financial-services sector jumped 700 percent over the past two decades. In 2010, those donors contributed $178.2 million, up from $15.4 million in 1990.
WSJ.com
Salvaging the Costa Concordia
Insurers will have to pay out up to $1 billion for the loss of the Costa Concordia. Salvaging the wreck off the coast of Tuscany is estimated to cost more than $50 million and could take two years.
Reuters.com
Jan Brewer's book rises at Amazon
After Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was photographed last week in a heated discussion with President Obama over how she portrayed him in her book Scorpions for Breakfast, the book soared from No. 285,568 to No. 21 on Amazon’s best-seller list in a single day.
Publisher’s Weekly
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The week's best photosIn Pictures Dancing for tradition, the World's Ugliest Dog, and more
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August 15 editorial cartoonsCartoons Friday’s political cartoons include Jeffrey Epstein files distractions, a Nobel Appeasement prize for Trump, and revisionist history in Washington DC
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'Actual poop': the messy ending of 'And Just Like That...'Talking Point Reviewers slam 'unfunny and hateful' finale to 'Sex and the City' reboot
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Mass shootings and mental health, and morefeature The mental health of the killer has not been an issue in most of the mass shootings that have occurred since 2009.
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The cost of health care, and more
feature America spent $2.6 trillion on health care last year.
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Bin Laden’s bad health, and more
feature The medicines recovered from Osama bin Laden’s compound show he no longer suffered from kidney disease, but he did have drugs for other ailments.
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The costs of prolonged exposure to combat, and more
feature In a historical first, more U.S. troops were hospitalized for mental-health disorders last year (17,538) than for battle wounds or other injuries (11,156).