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In Surfside, Fla., rescue crews are still combing through the wreckage of the 12-story condominium that collapsed Thursday morning. Dozens of people are unaccounted for as the investigation begins.

Johnson County, Iowa, voted to change its eponym from Richard Mentor Johnson, a lifelong slaveholder, to Lulu Merle Johnson, the first Black woman to earn a PhD in Iowa.

On Friday, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years for the murder of George Floyd.

President Biden met with Afghanistan's leaders, President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation.

"A World Cup is a grueling four-year process to get to that point," the soccer superstar tells NPR. Now she'll try to follow up the 2019 title with an Olympic gold medal.

Scientists caution that as the planet warms, more Americans could be exposed to disfiguring varieties of the Leishmania parasite. Overtreatment can be a problem, too, experts warn.

When an N95 respirator shortage left hospitals scrambling in 2020, U.S. manufacturers stepped in. Now, those companies are facing bankruptcies and layoffs as Chinese-made masks flood the market again.

Despite the agreement, the lawmakers said "there is still more work to be done on the final bill."

The vice president has said her role is to address the root causes of a migrant surge, rather than to focus solely on the U.S.-Mexico border crisis. But members of both parties said she should go.

After a rough tourism season last year, Wisconsin Dells is among those destinations seeing record numbers as vaccinated Midwesterners are ready to travel. But with that boom comes new challenges.