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Russia and Ukraine are holding large military exercises along their shared border as the Ukrainian military claims to be closing in on rebel strongholds in Donetsk and Luhansk, NPR’s Karoun Demirjian reports from Moscow.

Quicken is offering a $1 billion grand prize — yes, that’s billion, with a B — if someone correctly picks the outcome of all 63 games in the men’s Division I college basketball tournament this spring.

America’s unemployment rate sank to 7.4 percent in July, a drop of two-tenths of a percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says in its monthly summary of the U.S. economic situation.

Representatives vote 27 to 9 in favor of measure that allows mixing zones.