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With financial aid declining, many college students can't afford to eat, studies show, even though about 40 percent are also working. Nearly 1 in 4 college students are parents, which can add to their financial stress.

For Many College Students, Hunger 'Makes It Hard To Focus'

With rising school costs, as many as half of U.S. college students are feeling so stretched financially that they either aren't getting enough to eat or they're worried about it, studies find.

At Shanghai's weekly "marriage market," parents advertise their unmarried adult children with signs taped to umbrellas. Chinese parents and the government are doing what they can to reverse the trend of falling marriage rates. The sign above the entrance reads: "Comprehensively manage the marriage market, maintain the order of the park together."

China's Marriage Rate Plummets As Women Choose To Stay Single Longer

"Before, in China, you married to survive," says a Shanghai magazine editor. "Now I'm living well by myself, so I have higher expectations in marriage."

Manafort Trial Begins In Federal Court In Virginia

The first day of the tax and bank fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort began Tuesday. It is the first trial to come out of Special Counsel Robert Muller's investigation.

A man in Tehran looks at a newspaper with a picture of President Trump on the front page on Tuesday. Iran's currency traded at a fresh record-low of 119,000 to the dollar today, a loss of nearly two-thirds of its value since the start of the year as U.S. sanctions loom. Trump says he's willing to meet with Iranian leaders, but Iran doesn't seem eager to sit down.

Iran Is Unenthusiastic After President Trump Suggests A Meeting

The leaders of the U.S. and Iran haven't met in person since before the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Trump says he's ready to sit down; Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hasn't expressed any interest.

New Bethany Beardslee Release Heralds The Golden Age Of German And Viennese Singers

Though known for her avant-garde concert performances, the 92-year-old soprano recorded songs by 19th-century classical composers, including Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, when she was turning 60.

Two years after Uber paid $680 million to buy the self-driving truck startup Otto, the company is folding that effort. In this photo from 2016, an Otto engineer sits behind the steering wheel of a self-driving, big-rig truck during a demonstration in San Francisco.

Uber Parks Its Self-Driving Truck Project, Saying It Will Push For Autonomous Cars

The move comes after Uber has spent roughly $925 million in recent years to jump-start its effort to create a viable line of self-driving freight trucks.

A female orca that appears to be grieving has been carrying her dead calf in the water, keeping it afloat since the baby died more than a week ago.

Grieving Mother Orca Carries Dead Calf For More Than A Week, Over Hundreds Of Miles

The calf was the first to be born in the endangered pod of Pacific Northwest killer whales in three years.

Wildfires More Common in Western U.S.

A century's worth of fire suppression in forests, drought and heat from climate change, and the "suburbanization" of the woods mean that fires like the Carr Fire in Redding, Calif., are the new norm.

'I'm Not Angry': Alan Alda Says He's Living With Parkinson's

"It hasn't stopped my life at all. I've had a richer life than I've had up until now," the M*A*S*H actor said as he made the announcement Tuesday on CBS This Morning.

Afghan policemen stand guard outside the Imam Zaman Shiite mosque the day after a suicide attack during Friday evening prayers last October.

Afghanistan Update: Government 'Lawless, Weak And Dysfunctional'

A U.S. government watchdog says the Afghan government "may be going back to 'business as usual' and 'simply checking the box' when it comes to fighting corruption."

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