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2020 is almost over — and if you're anything like us, you spent a lot of time this year escaping into video games. Here are five favorite independent games that helped us get through the year.

A citizen's group in Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora, Mexico, is trying to address urban sprawl and rising temperatures through ambitious greening projects.

Wednesday night's game between the Houston Rockets and the Oklahoma City Thunder was postponed because the Rockets did not have the required number of players for the game.

Composer Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" is a holiday favorite. But the bestselling song has a melancholy backstory.

Jessica Parkison, co-owner of the restaurant Salt, discusses whether the new coronavirus relief package passed by Congress offers enough financial help for independent restaurants like hers.

Back in March, a coronavirus outbreak at St. Joseph's Senior Home in Woodbridge, N.J., led state officials to evacuate all 78 of its residents. Within weeks, nearly half of them were dead.

The U.K. and the European Union have finalized their post-Brexit agreement, striking a deal to allow for tariff-free trade after the U.K. exits the EU single market and customs union.

In March, Los Angeles stopped doing homeless-encampment cleanups, in line with CDC recommendations. But then trash pileups and blocked sidewalks brought a new set of public health concerns.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Bianca Tylek of Worth Rises about the nonprofit's call to urge Tom Gores to sell the Detroit Pistons due to his investment in a prison telecom business.

The ASPCA's Behavioral Rehabilitation Center works with severely fearful dogs rescued from puppy mills and hoarders. The shelter has an 87% success rate in rehabilitating undersocialized dogs.