In another strike against the Affordable Care Act, a federal appeals court found the requirement that all Americans have health insurance is unconstitutional. In a 2-1 ruling, a three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Wednesday said the individual mandate became unconstitutional when Congress cut the tax on people without insurance to zero in 2017.

The Salvation Army struck gold over the weekend. Bell ringers found a gold bar worth almost $1,500 inside a red kettle for donations in Kentucky.

As a former foster parent and Christian child-placement agency worker in Texas, Angie Kline spent time in the early 2000s with girls who had lived in larger group homes. She said the teenage girls were upfront about the sexual experimentation that happened in those settings. “They’re so set up with emotional need that any kind of sexual interaction is really distorted for them,” Kline said. “So, the more kids you have with those kinds of issues, the more chance you have of sexual acting out.”

Mormon leaders on Tuesday rebuffed charges that they misused donations from members of the religion. A former Latter-day Saints employee filed a complaint with the IRS in November claiming the group misled members and may have broken federal tax rules.

Katelynn Hardee, 5, warmed bellies and hearts by selling hot cocoa and cookies to help her friends at school. After baking for hours, she raised $80 that went toward paying off the lunch debts of 123 classmates in Vista, Calif.

Boeing doesn’t plan on the Federal Aviation Administration approving the grounded 737 Max for flight anytime soon. The company announced Monday it would suspend production of the jet at a plant in Renton, Wash., sometime in January, with no specifics on when it would restart. Countries around the world grounded the Max in March after two crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed a total of 346 people.

A storm system that brought suspected tornadoes to the Deep South on Monday killed at least three people. Storms destroyed and damaged buildings in cities across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and many school districts dismissed students early. The severe storm threat could last into Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.