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The Chicago Sky rallied from behind to beat the Phoenix Mercury and bring home the city's first-ever WNBA title. They're being celebrated by their hometown, including former President Barack Obama.

About 300 unarmed soldiers are joining local police in the city of 6 million to enforce coronavirus restrictions as authorities try to quell a new outbreak linked to the delta variant.

The street named after the late comedian, who was known for his blistering attacks on religion, ended up being a block longer than city officials intended.

A shooting that injured three women in a hair salon this week may have been a hate crime and could be linked to two other recent shootings at businesses run by Asian Americans, Dallas police say.

China's urbanization is perhaps the most extensive the world has ever seen. In Beijing and elsewhere, the job of designing prominent urban buildings is going more often than not to Western architects -- and the rush to remake the capital of China is crowding the ancient city with out-of-character designs.

The Ecology Action Center is urging Bloomington-Normal residents to look carefully at the data before making a choice on whether to opt out of the city and town negotiated electricity rate for the next three years.

Ten years ago, after the Gulf War, two Islamic scholars started an interfaith music festival in Morocco to promote peace. Now a celebrated institution, the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music is on its first U.S. tour. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports. Hear music performed at Fes.

A dramatic fire near the plant burned through the night and into Saturday but led to no evacuation orders or serious injuries — just heavy smoke that was seen and smelled in nearby New York City.

Built in the 1830s — the Henry B. Clarke House — may change its name to honor Bishop Louis Henry Ford who helped save the home.

The National Weather Service warned flooding could be "life-threatening," with numerous impassable roads, overflowing creeks and streams and flooded basements across the Chicago area.