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Dolphins center Mike Pouncey will not play in Sunday’s season opener at Seattle, Dolphins coach Adam Gase told reporters Friday. Backup running back Jay Ajayi will also be out. He did not make the trip, and his absence is being ruled a “coaches decision.” The Miami Herald reported that Ajayi was upset he was not…

Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart are in Geneva trying to reach a deal for a ceasefire in Syria. Similar deals have collapsed before, but this one is aimed at relieving suffering for millions of Syrians.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with our regular political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss the presidential candidates' latest comments on foreign policy and how the GOP will function after Donald Trump.

Ryan Lockett of Youth Radio talks to young people in the California Bay Area about the controversy surrounding San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's decision not to stand during the national anthem.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Friday allowing victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia for any role the country may have played in those attacks. The bill already passed in the Senate and will almost certainly get a veto from President Obama.

The 1994 best selling book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil introduced the world to many of the eccentric characters in Savannah, Ga. Perhaps none was more popular than Lady Chablis, who also played herself in the movie. The transgender performer died this week and her hometown is remembering her.

On Monday, Sports Illustrated senior writer Jon Wertheim said the U.S. Open was Serena Williams' to lose, and on Thursday night, she did. He tells NPR's Audie Cornish what happened Thursday when she lost not just her match, but her chance to surpass Steffi Graf for the most Grand Slam singles titles.

North Korea has conducted yet another nuclear test, which led to widespread international condemnation.

Both candidates for president have close ties to New York. Hillary Clinton, the state's former senator, and native son Donald Trump regularly invoke the 9/11 attacks on the campaign trail.

If you've caught a Major League Baseball game in person, you know that batters have their own song playing when they walk up to the plate. New York Mets infielder Wilmer Flores' song is a little bit different than the usual hip-hop or country.

Eight people are now under arrest in France, after what security officials say was an attempt to create an explosion in central Paris.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to director Justin Tipping, whose debut feature film Kicks is out now. The movie focuses on a young black man living in an inner-city neighborhood in California, and the lengths he goes to retrieve his stolen vintage sneakers.

You know when you're at a cafeteria, you've got your lunch and then you just don't know where to sit? You don't want to sit alone, but you also don't know who would be friendly and let you sit with them. Sixteen-year-old Natalie Hampton has been there. She's an 11th grader from Sherman Oaks, Calif., and the creator of a new app called Sit With Us.

First responder John Feal created a memorial for other Sept. 11 responders who died not on the day, but of health issues related to working at ground zero.

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Wells Fargo is on the hook for $185 million in fines after settling charges brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of widespread abusive and illegal sales practices dating back to the beginning of 2011. 

The company, which is the largest US bank by market capitalization, has fired some 5,300 employees in connection with the scandal, in which workers quietly took advantage of customers in an effort to reap rewards and game an employee-incentive program. Читать дальше...

One way or another, Donovan will likely offer the Galaxy with something positive in his return to Major League Soccer.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Graduate and professional students at the University of Missouri are asking the schools to recognize their graduate assistants’ union among other requests. The Graduate Professional Council passed four resolutions during its first meeting this semester, The Columbia Daily Tribune (http://bit.ly/2cLPyfq ) reports. The students also asked for expanded waivers to cover supplemental

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Lions have agreed to contract extensions for running back Theo Riddick and punter Sam Martin.

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Lions have agreed to contract extensions for running back Theo Riddick and punter Sam Martin.

Billy Crudup has landed a big role in the DC Comics franchise – he is in talks to play the father of Barry Allen in the upcoming movie The Flash, according to Variety. This won’t be the first time that the 48-year-old actor has appeared in a comic book movie. He previously played Dr. Manhattan [...]

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Blac Chyna, who is pregnant and expecting with Rob Kardashian, showed off her baby bump on Snapchat prior to the "Rob & Chyna" premiere.

This dried-out daisy may not look like much, but it’s a testament to one of history’s most ambitious voyages.

Israel's prime minister rejected international criticism of West Bank settlement construction on Friday, equating it to "ethnic cleansing" of Jews and insisting the settlements are not an obstacle to peace, in a video that drew a rare rebuke from the United States.