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In a field topping 50,000, the annual race saw a lot of firsts. Desisa of Ethiopia won his first NYC Marathon and Kenya's Keitany became the third person to win the race four times.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said the first order of business will be a vote on campaign finance reform. House committees also will launch investigations of Trump administration officials.

The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl for the first time in history on Sunday. NPR's Gene Demby is from Philadelphia, and talks about what the win means for the city and for him.

Despite the coronavirus crisis, this year's most popular high school plays and musicals include The Addams Family, Mamma Mia! and Clue, according to Dramatics magazine.

The Air Force's new top officer, Gen. Charles Brown Jr., is the first African American to serve as a military service chief. He will be the first Black officer on the Joint Chiefs of Staff since 1993.

Bill Lester, one of only seven Black drivers to race in NASCAR's top-tier cup series, says he wanted the flag gone when he raced more than a decade ago. "The country was not ready to listen," he says.

The top prosecutors in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and Cook County, Ill., were voted out in primaries Tuesday. Both have been under fire for their handling of fatal shootings by police.

Carly Fiorina and Rand Paul were bumped off the main stage for Thursday's debate on the Fox Business Network. Paul had warned for days that he would not show up for a lower-tier event.

Canada is still tops for Americans, Gallup says. But the polling company says attitudes toward other countries have shifted — particularly for North Korea and Russia.

A Canadian company called Thoth Technology has patented a space elevator. The tower would rise some 12 miles into the sky, with a runway or launch pad on top.