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Steve Easterbrook has paid back equity awards and cash to the burger giant after it learned that he had lied about the extent of his misconduct while he was its top executive.

Essayist Bonny Wolf grew up in the Midwest, where it wasn't always easy to find oysters for Thanksgiving. She tries to eat them every chance she gets, holiday dinner or not.

For many students, Saturday was their first demonstration for a cause. They bundled in the U.S. capital, delivering a defiant message: stricter gun regulation. NPR photographers captured the scene.

The 12 nominees for the collection at the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y., run the gamut from Breyer horses and Phase 10 to toys with centuries of history, like spinning tops and piñatas.

On top of rising infections, a cyclone and 100 million people out of work, India has another problem: An invasion of locusts — the worst in 25 years.

The art of sabrage, or knocking open a bottle of Champagne with a sword, probably started during the time of Napoleon. A sword is handy but not necessary; a kitchen knife can also work, according to a Champagne expert.

Four years ago Mayor Lori Lightfoot swept every corner of the city and won all 50 wards. Tuesday voters rejected reelection bid. Now, the top two candidates head to a runoff election.

Five years after the collapse of Enron, the energy trading giant, former employees are hoping to receive some measure of justice on Monday, when former top executive Jeffrey Skilling is sentenced in Houston.

After the biggest international opening weekend for any American comedy in history (more than $93 million), the picture is proving to have legs. For two weeks in a row, it has topped foreign box-office charts — trouncing Shrek, Spider-Man, even Harry Potter.

Country music has been all over the pop charts this summer.