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Underdog Sacramento Republic FC, which plays in the lower-division USL, is trying to do what hasn't been done since 1999 — topple a Major League Soccer team in the U.S. Open Cup final.

Thanksgiving means lots of turkey — and of course, football. Linda Wertheimer talks to ESPN sportswriter Jane McManus for a preview of the long holiday weekend's NFL and collegiate games.

There's a book that can help you walk the walk and talk the talk of fictional spy hero James Bond. Steve Inskeep speaks with Author Christopher Hitchens about The Book of Bond by Sir Kingsley Amis, published in 1965 under the pen name William (Bill) Tanner.

A drone strike that killed al-Qaida's top leader marks the first major U.S. operation in Afghanistan in a year, and comes at a time when national security interests seemed to be focused elsewhere.

While President Trump has been attacking the special counsel, Trump's White House counsel granted what is reported to be lengthy voluntary testimony.

British Gas still has five employees who work as lamplighters, tending to the more than 1,000 centuries-old gas lamps that still line some of London's oldest neighborhoods.

Oklahoma City is on top in the NBA Finals. The Thunder is playing great team basketball, despite their youth and relative inexperience.

"Partisanship is what is fanning the flames of rhetoric and debate among all Americans right now over this move by the FBI," said one GOP strategist.

The only female prime minister Britain has ever had died Monday at age 87. When Margaret Thatcher took office, Great Britain was a county in trouble. Inflation was in double-digits and unemployment was on the rise. The top income tax rate stood at 83 percent and the country was being racked by one labor strike after another.

The deaths have been climbing since mid-June. Soldiers and rescue workers are evacuating stranded residents to the safety of relief camps and providing food to thousands of displaced Pakistanis.

Longtime Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg is expected to plead guilty on Thursday to a tax fraud scheme in New York.

Two of the three reservoirs that serve the city are practically empty. In the long term, officials are trying to build more dams and reservoirs. The short term plan is to hope for rain.

Saudi leaders viewed their summit with President Biden as a success, but human rights advocates worry about the message it sent to the kingdom.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Josh Sugarmann, Violence Policy Center's executive director, about his analysis of 2019 homicide data and why Missouri was ranked #1 for Black homicide victimization.

The New York attorney general's office said it reviewed thousands of pages of documents and social media content to study how the suspect used online platforms to plan and publicize the mass shooting.

It's a busy week in the sports world. The NBA season has tipped off and the MLB postseason is in full swing.

We look the details surrounding the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, who was assaulted in a break in at their San Francisco residence on Friday morning.

Rishi Sunak will become Britain's new prime minister — its third in two months. He won the race to be leader of the Conservative Party today.

Explosions rang out across Kyiv early Monday, a week after nationwide strikes rocked the city for the first time since June.

The Pokémon Co. announced Friday it would roll out a new series with new protagonists that will premiere in 2023.

President Biden is under pressure to show he's doing all he can to bring down prices at the pump. He plans to talk Wednesday about how he'll pull more oil from emergency reserves.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's first term in office saw a spike in crime, disputes with labor unions, and the pandemic. She's running for reelection next week — against eight challengers.

A jury in New York found Genaro Garcia Luna guilty of taking bribes from a cartel. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Maria Hinojosa, founder of Futuro Studios and co-host of the podcast USA V. Garcia Luna.

Out of all 50 states, Florida ranked first in damages with $116 billion attributed to the state alone.

Popular tourist sites around the world are preparing for a surge in Chinese tourists now that China has loosened its COVID-related border restrictions.