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Now the quarter shot a 64 on Saturday to take a three-stroke lead at the LPGA Tournament of Champions in Orlando.
The golfers were plagued by 20-mile-an-hour winds with gusts twice that high.
The winds made the temperature feel like it was in the 40s.
Play was eventually suspended after one golfer's ball was blown off a green.
Live from NPR News in Washington, D.C., I'm Dale Willman.
Democrat Christian Menefee has won the special election runoff in Houston to fill out the term of the late Congressman Sylvester Turner, who died last March.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott had long delayed the election and has been accused by Democrats of trying to help Republicans hold on to their slim majority in the U.S.
Houston Public Media's Andrew Schneider reports.
A partial government shutdown is continuing this weekend.
In a bipartisan vote, the Senate passed several spending bills that would keep most of the government open through September.
One other bill would extend Homeland Security funding for two weeks, allowing for congressional debate over ICE tactics.
The House could vote on the measures as soon as Monday, but NPR's Jimena Bustillo says it's a difficult path forward.
That's NPR's Jimena Bustillo with our report.
Protests against the federal government's immigration enforcement tactics are happening across the country this weekend.
Once again, some demonstrators are calling for a boycott of Target, which is headquartered in Minneapolis.
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Thousands of Danes, many of them military veterans, marched through downtown Copenhagen this weekend to protest President Trump's comments belittling allies' contributions during the war in Afghanistan.