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Nov. 19 is World Toilet Day — officially declared by the United Nations to bring attention to the 3.4 billion people who live without "safely managed sanitation."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy led an official day of mourning in Kyiv a day after a Russian cruise missile flattened an apartment building. It was one of the deadliest attacks on the capital in the 4-year-old war.

A news helicopter used by NBC and Telemundo crashed in a Los Angeles neighborhood on Tuesday, killing at least three people while reporters were covering the nearby crash of an SUV and a city bus.

Some students are back at school starting Monday in the Willoughby-Eastlake School District and administrators are enacting new policies to prevent spread of the coronavirus. But the protection comes with a price tag. Willoughby-Eastlake received about $1.2 million from the federal CARES Act, said Superintendent Steve Thompson. But coronavirus-related expenditures – including masks and disinfecting supplies – could total between $3.5 million and $4 million for the district this year, he said.

Russia's parliamentary election for the first time is being held in Ukraine's regions that Moscow illegally annexed after the start of its full-scale invasion more than 4 1/2 years ago.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio about the early days of his effort to provide free, high-quality preschool to all of the city's 4-year-olds.

In an interview with WBEZ, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx explains why her office suddenly dropped charges against the actor.

You would be hard pressed to find a bigger Cincinnati Reds fan than yours truly. Don't cry to me about their present record; that's irrelevant to my...

Helene made landfall late on Thursday in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 Hurricane. It weakened Friday morning to a tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 mph.