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The oldest gauge for tracking stock prices topped 17,000 on Thursday, another in a string of records for the Dow Jones.

Top seeds have fallen like timber in a forest as the men's NCAA basketball tournament heads into its second weekend.

After striking a bipartisan deal to move nominations forward, the Senate has now filled four top posts.

Peru has taken over as the world's top producer of cocaine. The BBC's Robin Lustig visits a coca plantation in Peru and reports on efforts to curb production in that nation.

Pilot John Gregory crash landed his small plane on top of a tree in Idaho. He was rescued by a volunteer firefighter.

Trump says a COVID-19 vaccine could be ready by the end of 2020. At the same time, the top communications official at Health and Human Services is going on leave after comments he made on Facebook.

- Daniel speaks with investigative reporter Scott Armstrong about the nature of FBI background checks. The FBI has over 3 million files on a wide range of people from top presidential aides to low level workers who have access to certain government offices. Armstrong argues that the creation of these files is a waste of money and time, particularly considering that very little relevant information is uncovered by background checks.

President Clinton urged what he called a "spirit of reconciliation" today in a speech at a prayer breakfast at the White House. As NPR's Mara Liasson reports, Mr. Clinton called on Americans to heal divisions caused by politics, race and other factors. The president said his top priorities for his second term are education, welfare, family values, the economy and foreign policy.

The annual meeting usually lets the leaders of the seven largest free market democracies discuss their economic policies, but the truck bombing in Saudi Arabia has pushed terrorism to the top of their agenda.

of Mexico's government for the way it handled the dismissal of its top drug enforcement official. The administration expressed disappointment that the Zedillo government did not inform Washington that it suspected General Jesus Gutierrez of taking bribes from Mexico's largest drug cartel.