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Turkish and Ghanaian organized crime rings are said to have issued legitimate and counterfeit visas for $6,000 to people from across West Africa. They bribed corrupt officials to look the other way.

President Trump says that after the drone closed to within approximately 1,000 yards of the U.S. warship and ignored calls to stand down, it was "immediately destroyed."

President Trump's 2020 budget proposal, released on Monday, calls for $8.6 billion in new border wall funding, along with increased military spending and deep cuts to domestic programs.

Most of the money — more than $3.6 billion — will go to soybean farmers. Last year, China bought nearly a third of all soybeans grown in the U.S.

People had gathered for a beach festival when a tsunami hit Indonesia's Sulawesi island. Thousands of buildings collapsed, Indonesian officials said.

A safety group estimates 6,227 pedestrians were killed in motor vehicle crashes in 2018 — a 4 percent increase over 2017 and the highest mortality rate since 1990.

At the tennis tournament this year, as in years past, a Harris hawk named Rufus has been soaring above the stadium. His job is to keep pigeons from trespassing onto the iconic grass on Centre Court.

A small Canadian firm takes on two of the largest drug companies in the world with its surprise launch of a generic copy of the best-selling blood thinner Plavis. Apotex began shipping its generic version to U.S. stores today. The makers of Plavix sold $6 billion of the popular heart drug last year.

Internet auction provider eBay agrees to buy Skype. eBay will pay $2.6 billion in cash and stock for the Internet calling service, in hopes that it will boost communication between buyers and sellers.

NPR's Joseph Shapiro recently got a first hand look at what it means to be disabled when he broke his ankle and had to use a four-wheeled scooter to move around. He found that even on the streets of Washington, D.C., where improvements have been made to accommodate the disabled, life can be difficult. He takes a tour of downtown with disability advocate Lisa Iezzoni. Read excerpts from Iezzoni's book, When Walking Fails.