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When your penmates have eaten all your snacks, what's a guy to do? Workers at the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium found 13-year-old Jontu, an Indian one-horned rhino, chowing down just behind his barn.

Actor Andre de Shields welcomed audiences back to Broadway with the musical "Hadestown."

Relief payments moved 11.7 million people from poverty in 2020, according to new Census Bureau data.

Many Republicans criticized the Biden administration's handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. But Rep. Connolly linked the events to Trump's deal with the Taliban in 2018.

All five candidates are people of color and four of them are women.

California voters will decide the political future of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

On September 14, 2001, flying as we knew it changed forever: the way pilots and crews are trained, the way passengers are screened, and the cost and amenities of flights.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that the Clinton administration is consulting with other Latin American nations with regard to possible punitive steps to be taken against Peru. The US sharply criticized Peru's government for not postponing Sunday's presidential runoff to deal with irregularities. A state department spokesman refused to say what steps, if any, the US is prepared to take against President Alberto Fujimori. Peru receives the most US aid in Latin America after Colombia, and is a close partner with Washington in fighting drug trafficking.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from Mexico on the results of the presidential election. Official projections of the final vote count show opposition candidate Vicente Fox the clear winner. Fox's victory ends the 71-year rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. The former rancher and Coca-Cola executive says he will stop corruption, double spending for public education, and jump-start the economy with foreign investment and jobs programs.

Many towns in California are turning to goats... nature's own walking trash disposals...to help clean up dry brush and other vegetation in fire-prone areas. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports from Laguna Beach, where the animals have been used for about a decade. The goats are about five times cheaper than a human crew...and are able to go where people and heavy machinery can't.

Researchers estimate that children 19 and younger influenced half a trillion dollars worth of purchases in the U.S. last year. With that kind of buying power on the line, advertisers are eager for help in targeting the nation's youngest consumers. Increasingly, marketers are getting their intelligence from psychologists who use their expertise. NPR's Elaine Korry reports that now, some psychologists are calling for the practice to be banned.

Chris McCall reports that rescuers found 10 survivors over the weekend from a ferry disaster in which nearly 500 people, most of them Christian refugees, are feared to have died. Most of the passengers were Christians fleeing from religious violence in the Moluccas.