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Mexico is on course to accept as many as 80,000 refugees this year. Its tiny asylum agency is overrun with applications and many asylum-seekers are stuck in a bottleneck of bureaucracy.

The incoming CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee faces more challenges than just sexual abuse scandals. Elite athletes are calling for a complete overhaul of the USOC financial model.

Entertainer Bill Cosby's sentencing hearing got underway Monday in suburban Philadelphia. The 81-year-old comedian faces the possibility of prison time for three counts of aggravated indecent assault.

Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly play a brotherly pair of assassins-for-hire in Jacques Audiard's latest film. Critic Justin Chang calls The Sisters Brothers a "funny, stirring, brutal story."

The president goes back and forth about what he accepts or what he calls a "hoax" or a "witch hunt;" most recently he said Russia would interfere in 2018 to help Democrats in Congress.

The legislation, which allows abortion before 14 weeks of pregnancy, passed the lower house of Congress by a slim margin. Now senators are debating it — and demonstrators are massing in Buenos Aires.

President Trump is eager to tout a fast-growing economy, boosted by the tax cuts he pushed through Congress. That makes Friday's report on gross domestic product a highly anticipated news event.

The fire that began earlier in the week tripled in size overnight Thursday, fueled by high winds and record-breaking temperatures. Firefighters called it a "fire tornado."

In Major League Baseball, the perennial powerhouse teams are looking strong as the trade deadline approaches. Scott Simon talks with ESPN's Howard Bryant.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Kristen Schreder, mayor of Redding, Calif., for the latest on the deadly Carr wildfire raging through Northern California.