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The Biden administration recently expanded a pandemic-era program that quickly expels migrants who illegally cross into the country from Mexico.

"We don't know why this bird was dyed pink, although many of our followers have speculated that it was for a gender reveal party," a Wild Bird Fund official told NPR.

More than 13,000 McLean County voters have cast ballots ahead of next week's election.

A dozen people were injured in a Baton Rouge nightclub shooting, authorities in Louisiana said Sunday. No arrests have been made, but police believe the early morning attack was "targeted."

A publicist for actor Jeremy Renner said in a statement that the 51-year-old Avengers star is in an intensive care unit following surgery.

Montana is a tough place to be homeless. The state's annual ceremony memorializing homeless people who've died, happened to fall on one of the coldest nights of the year.

A tribute to Frida — Mexico's hero dog — who died earlier this week. The golden labrador gave many there hope after the 2017 earthquake, when she used her training to find survivors under rubble.

The cactus moth, which has already become an expensive pest in the Caribbean and the southern United States, has now invaded Mexico. An infestation in Isla Mujeres near Cancun, on Mexico's Caribbean coast, is destroying the nopal cactus, a food source that has been a staple since pre-Colonial times.

Moody's Investor's Service has downgraded the credit rating of a regional bank with a strong central Illinois presence. The one notch reduction of Commerce Bank from a1 to a2 is among downgrades of 10 small to mid-sized banks.

Tuesday is the first day of fall. This time of year reminds critic Abigail Deutsch of Stephen Dobyns' "How to Like It" — a poem about a man who ponders his lost summers and fleeting dreams.