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After the biggest international opening weekend for any American comedy in history (more than $93 million), the picture is proving to have legs. For two weeks in a row, it has topped foreign box-office charts — trouncing Shrek, Spider-Man, even Harry Potter.

Country music has been all over the pop charts this summer.

Numbers from the World Health Organization put Sierra Leone at the top of the list for cases of Ebola. Yusuf Mackery explains what's being done to prevent infection and raise public awareness.

A mountaineer who's gotten to the top of Mount Everest 14 times has been cleaning trash off the mountain with a team of climbers.

Thousands of demonstrators including from the dominant Roman Catholic church clergy are protesting in the Philippines, calling for the swift prosecution of top legislators.

Earlier, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the purpose of the department would exclusively be "war fighting."

Yes, the sweet potato is a nutritional giant. Who can resist when it's topped with marshmallows? From the NPR archives, a Kenyan researcher explains why the sight of the tuber makes her go "heck, no!"

Congress is ramping up its probe into hundreds of reports of migrant child labor in the U.S. A House panel grilled a top official of a program responsible for placing these children in safe homes.

Fifteen top posts at the Department of Homeland Security, including retiring Secretary Janet Napolitano's position, are now vacant or soon will be. Many are being filled on a temporary basis, and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle want the Obama administration to get busy filling those jobs, too.

Biss, the mayor of Evanston, Ill., topped political newcomer Kat Abughazaleh, a first-time candidate who ran as an unapologetic progressive in the race to succeed longtime incumbent Jan Schakowsky.