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Nowruz, commonly known as the Persian New Year, symbolizes revival and renewal for its more than 300 million celebrants in modern-day Iran and beyond.

The golden retriever, part of a Swedish rescue team, helped find 18 people alive under the rubble in Turkey earlier this year. He searched this week for the last missing person in a Moroccan village.

William Christenberry grew up in Hale County, Ala. For more than 40 years, he has returned there each summer, revisiting the same locations to document the passage of time.

Some of the cost variations from a UnitedHealthcare database are startling. For treating a basic asthma episode, cases in the 10th percentile of distribution cost $98 each while those in the 90th percentile the cost was $1,535 per case.

President Biden marked the 155th anniversary of Memorial Day with remarks at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Uptown will be full of art—inside and out, with a new exhibition at University Galleries during Sugar Creek Arts Festival. And the Midwest Toy and Comic Fest moves to Parke Regency for its second year.

An Israeli delegation is expected to arrive on Monday in Qatar for talks with mediators trying to broker a temporary ceasefire and hostage release.

The U.S. women's water polo team was chasing a historic fourth straight Olympic gold medal. Instead, the team will miss out on the podium for the first time since the sport made its debut in 2000.

Celebrating 10 years, Peoria band the Way Down Wanderers chose to mark the occasion in Bloomington-Normal at a venue that's special to them.

Maurice Sendak, the well-known children's book author and illustrator, has died. He was 83. Sendak is widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are. Steve Inskeep has this remembrance.