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For a few days, DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., was transformed into a competitive robotics arena, where teenagers from 157 countries gathered for the First Global Challenge.

What Really Happened At That Robotics Competition You've Heard So Much About

The controversy surrounding a highly anticipated robotics competition for teens from around the globe sometimes overshadowed an otherwise upbeat event focused on kids, robots and changing the world.

Hundreds of protesters greet Education Secretary Betsy DeVos this week in Denver, where she addressed the American Legislative Exchange Council.

DeVos Protests In Denver; House To Make Cuts To Education

More girls are taking the AP computer science exam, House Republicans rejected school choice expansions in Trump's initial budget request, and the education secretary spoke in Denver amid protests.

A Jerry's Rogue Jets boat with tourists on board leaves for a trip up the Rogue River in July.

As Log Trucks And Fishing Boats Leave, Gold Beach Tries To Remake Its Identity

Logging and fishing once dominated the economy in rural Gold Beach, Oregon. NPR's Jeff Brady returned to his hometown, finding a new focus on tourism and other pursuits.

Russian President Vladimir Putin leads a Cabinet meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on Wednesday.

In Putin's Russia, An 'Adhocracy' Marked By Ambiguity And Plausible Deniability

Donald Trump Jr. found his meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya a waste of time, but her approach fits into a larger pattern of freelance political activity that has come to characterize Putin's Russia.

Cecil the lion, photographed in 2013, was killed by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe in 2015. Two years later, his son Xanda came to the same end nearby.

Xanda, Son Of Cecil The Lion, Also Killed

A trophy hunter shot and killed the 6-year-old lion near Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, near where his father was killed two years ago.

Ernie K Doe performs at the 2001 New Orleans Jazz Festival.

'Here Come The Girls'... Again

Drummer Stanton Moore — a founding member of the funk band Galactic — has a new release with "Here Come the Girls" on a tribute album to the late songwriting producer Allen Toussaint.

Dozens of people stand in the offices of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., protesting against the Republican health care plan on Capitol Hill on Thursday. Uncertainty about the future of the health care system has shaken insurers.

Even Talking About Weakening Obamacare Provisions Weakens The Exchanges

The future of the Affordable Care Act pillars like subsidies and the individual mandate is uncertain, and that is causing higher premiums and fewer insurers in the marketplaces, experts say.

A man walks near a damaged building after an earthquake struck near the Greek island of Kos early Friday.

Deadly Earthquake Strikes Greece And Turkey

The powerful quake left at least two people dead on the Greek resort island of Kos during peak tourist season.

Ruins are all that remain of the 12th century Great Mosque of al-Nuri, where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared three years ago that an Islamic state was rising again. ISIS blew the mosque up as Iraqi forces advanced.

In Mosul, Grim Homecomings And A Struggle To Survive In A City Now Free From ISIS

Civil defense workers have recovered more than 1,400 bodies of civilians in west Mosul. Relatives are searching for the bodies of loved ones in a landscape so devastated they can barely recognize it.

Senate Will Hold Another Health Care Vote Next Week

What options do Senate Republicans have left in their effort to undo the Affordable Care Act, which is also known as Obamacare? The stakes seem much bigger than just health care.

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