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First team and Reserves begin their campaigns this week

Long gone are the days of carrier pigeons — today, there are cleaning crows. This week, a French theme park will employ a team of birds who have been trained to pick up trash, LiveScience reported Monday.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Rep. Brian Higgins, D-N.Y., who has spoken publicly about his opinion that it's time for new Democratic leadership as more than 40 nominees for House seats have said they would not vote for minority leader Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House.

Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke is firing up Democrats as he challenges GOP Sen. Ted Cruz's re-election bid. O'Rourke is staking out progressive positions instead of tacking to the middle in the deep red state.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro regularly accuses the U.S. of working to overthrow him. But in a surprise invitation, he said he would welcome the FBI's help in investigating an attack last week that he says was an assassination attempt.

The Turkish Lira has plummeted over the weekend, hitting a record low against the U.S. dollar. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks to global economist Eswar Prasad about the fall and the larger effects on the global economy.

The university placed head football coach DJ Durkin on leave following reports of "toxic culture" and the death of a player, who had a heatstroke during practice two weeks earlier.

Federal regulators and U.S. airport representatives are talking Monday about possible tarmac security changes after a baggage handler stole a passenger plane at the Sea-Tac airport Friday night and crashed it on an island.

Children's book author Jon Scieszka shares his kid-friendly reading recommendations. His list includes an irreverent baby book, two great series, and the "Funniest. Stories. Ever."

Nico Walker is currently in federal prison for bank robbery. That's given him plenty of time to write his semi-autobiographical novel Cherry, which has received glowing advance reviews.

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DESPITE a quickie engagement, Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin aren’t in a rush to walk down the aisle.

Florida-Based Marketing Agency to Host Conference Dedicated to Empowering IT Services Businesses to Grow and Succeed

The no. 2 team will unload chassis no.118 at Bristol this week. This will be the fourth time Coughlin has used this chassis, collecting two top-10 finishes earlier this season at Dover (sixth) and Iowa (seventh).

Go ahead. Be evil.

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Who to draft and who to avoid from each NFL team entering the 2018 fantasy football season.

The roads just got safer.

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SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio (AP) - Authorities say two men found dead after a 12-hour standoff near Cleveland were the sons of a doctor who died from multiple gunshots at his home.

Plans have been scrapped for director Peter Jackson and Wellington City Council to work together on a movie museum and convention centre. The council is now forging ahead with its own convention centre ...

The Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation “fails to distinguish between justified and non-justified walls,” Dr. Efraim Zuroff told The Jerusalem Post.

The Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation “fails to distinguish between justified and non-justified walls,” Dr. Efraim Zuroff told The Jerusalem Post.

FROM ZOE BALL to Chris Evans, the Nineties saw some wild DJs host the Radio 1 Breakfast Show who were arguably more rock ‘n’ roll than the celebrities they interviewed. But those years of hungover presenters falling out of taxis outside the studio having just left a party is well and truly over — and […]