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The U.S. team wants to become the first-ever reigning Women's World Cup champion to take home Olympic gold.

As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct. Click through the gallery above to see examples of endangered professions, from milkman to telegrapher, and hear from people who once filled those oft-forgotten jobs.

Roughly half of all U.S. public school students will stay home for the rest of the school year.

HELENA, Mont. (Independent Record) — Armed demonstrators were among a group gathered at the Montana Capitol to protest the state government’s response to…

Unaccompanied children are not being turned away, nor are some parents with young children, but many border crossers are being sent back home.

Without much fanfare at home, the U.S. men's soccer team has become solidly competitive, holding its own against the world's best teams in international play. As the World Cup approaches, the U.S. team is ranked fifth in the world. But the team faces a brutal stretch in the initial round of play. NPR's Tom Goldman has part one of a two-part report.

A tribute to Jack Mullin, the engineer who introduced German tape recorders to America after World War II. Soon thereafter Bing Crosby started using them to pre-tape his radio show on ABC.

Growing up without a television at home, cartoonist Kate Wheeler and her brother shared the joys of listening to audiobooks as children.

The stowaway cat, identified by the New York Post as "Smells," was returned to its owner, who was at home unaware it sneaked into the suitcase of a visiting friend.

Nearly 600 homes were destroyed and another 6000 sustained major damage from flooding last year.