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Health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are scrambling to contain an outbreak of the Ebola virus, which is suspected of having killed more than 100 people and risk spreading across international borders.

Local officials and age groups are currently mounting a response to manage the outbreak, the first major one since the dramatic cutting of U.S.

aid programs by the Trump administration.

NPR global health correspondent Fatma Tanis has more.

Several border nations to the Congo have closed their borders.

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The 110th running of the Indianapolis 500 made history with the closest finish ever.

From member station WFYI, Samantha Horton reports it ended with a last-lap shootout.

The family of Kitty Bruce, the only child of famed comedian Lenny Bruce, announced this weekend she died May 13th.

She was 70.

Bruce established an archive of her father's work at Brandeis University, and she backed the successful effort to obtain a pardon.

in the state of New York for his 1960s-era conviction on an obscenity charge because of words he used during a stand-up act.

She also set up a foundation to help substance abusers remain sober.

Her family said she died as a result of complications from knee replacement surgery.

Wall Street will be closed Monday in observance of the Memorial Day holiday.

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President Trump says an agreement with Iran, including the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, is largely negotiated, but the document needs finalization.

NPR's Phil Myhre reports.

In an early morning social media post, President Trump said Saturday evening's fatal shooting near the White House is another reason why a new ballroom needs to be constructed, he says, because of national security concerns.