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Vanessa Rodel smiles during a media scrum after arriving with her daughter Keana to the Toronto airport on a flight from Hong Kong this week. She is one of several Hong Kong-based refugees who helped Edward Snowden hide in Hong Kong after his leaks exposed U.S. global surveillance programs.

Hong Kong Refugee Who Sheltered Snowden Granted Asylum In Canada

Vanessa Rodel and her daughter, Keana, arrived in Montreal on Tuesday after years of living in legal limbo. They and other refugees helped NSA leaker Edward Snowden after he fled the U.S.

Kelsey and the Boys put Monroe High School on the jazz map

The all-star jazz ensemble from Monroe High School, calling themselves Kelsey and the Boys, showed their love of jazz in the KNKX studios. The session provided a good reminder that as the Northwest grows, the once-small-town of Monroe is growing an impressive jazz program.

A pitch clock behind home plate at Scottsdale Stadium in Arizona, spring training home of the San Francisco Giants. As part of Major League Baseball's efforts to increase the game's pace of play, pitch clocks were used on an experimental basis at some spring training games. But the experiment ended in mid-March.

America's Favorite Pastime Is Back — And Some Wish It Would Just Hurry Up!

As baseball tries to appeal to a younger audience, there's concern the long game times may drive away that demographic. So MLB is experimenting with speeding games up and eliminating downtime.

What If Elite Colleges Switched To A Lottery For Admissions?

What if we just pulled names out of a hat to find out who gets into America's top colleges? K-12 lottery systems might give us an idea about what would happen.

Could A Novel Lead Someone To Kill? 'Murder By The Book' Explores The Notion

Author Claire Harman writes that one reason François Benjamin Courvoisier gave for why he murdered his boss Lord William Russell in 1840 was that he wanted to model himself on a book character.

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May walks out 10 Downing street in London on Wednesday. She announced that if her Brexit deal is approved by Parliament, she will step down from her post.

Theresa May Agrees To Quit If Brexit Deal Passes In U.K. Parliament

Members of May's own party had urged her step aside — a move that would clear the way for a new Conservative leader to steer through the next phases of the U.K.'s departure from the EU.

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