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Among the thousands of migrants arriving in Munich are children, who require extra help to adjust to their new environment. These children are overwhelming Bavarian authorities who by law are required to send them to school when classes there resume next week. But they don't have enough room in transitional programs the newcomers need.

"It's an awfully good job," Caroll Spinney says, of the more than 40 years he has spent on Sesame Street. A new documentary tells the story of the octogenarian man playing a 6-year-old bird.

Wells Fargo staff secretly opened millions of unauthorized accounts to meet lofty sales targets. A class-action suit has been filed on behalf of employees who obeyed the law and failed to meet quotas.

The government's $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program had to be thrown together quickly, and the criteria for which companies can receive benefits were kept loose.

Chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura uses the video-streaming site Twitch to teach others the game. During quarantine he's amassed over 350,000 followers, and renewed interest in the century-old game.

The event was recently moved from North Carolina over a dispute about safety precautions such as face coverings and crowd limits.

It's still too early to tell just how much the magnitude-6.0 quake will cost the region, but it comes after a drought had already made things difficult for wineries.

Amazon's first quarter sales reached $51 billion, a 43 percent increase over last year. Its net income was $1.6 billion. Amazon also increased its annual Prime membership fee to $119 a year from $99.

Weeks before the police agency is slated to run out of money, the Democratic Senate Appropriations chair and the panel's ranking Republican introduced competing emergency funding bills.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says she is postponing legislative elections slated for Sept. 6 due to a resurgence in COVID-19 cases. Critics say it will further erode the Chinese territory's autonomy.