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Chicago Cubs fans are eagerly awaiting the Major League Baseball season's start. That's because it marks the 100th season since the last World Series title for the Cubs. NPR's David Schaper reports on a century of "wait 'til next year."

Frontier Airlines is the fourth U.S. carrier to declare bankruptcy in the past two weeks. The discount airline says it will keep flying. But Frontier — like other airlines — is under tremendous financial pressure as the economy slows and fuel prices soar. Carriers are likely to pass along more of their costs to fliers as they struggle to remain in business.

Engineers in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province are trying to rehabilitate a half-century-old, American-built dam and power plant in what is the heart of Taliban country. Amid attacks and other security issues, progress is slow.

Commercial trucks have been spending hours or days waiting to enter Texas from Mexico. Gov. Abbott ordered inspections of all trucks, saying it's needed to combat drug smuggling and human trafficking.

Sen. Hillary Clinton's name will be placed in nomination along with Barack Obama's at the Democratic convention in Denver. Democrats will officially nominate Obama at the convention but state delegations will do a roll call for Clinton, too. Marc Ambinder, reporter and blogger for the Atlantic, offers his insight.

The Boston-based composer is remembered, 100 years after his birth, for a string of three-minute pops-concert classics such as "Sleigh Ride," "The Typewriter" and "The Syncopated Clock."

U.S. sprinter Tyson Gay ran the fastest-ever 100-meter sprint this weekend. But his 9.66 seconds won't go down as a world record because of tailwind. Dave Johnson, of the U.S. Track and Field Hall of Fame, discusses how a tailwind helps sprinters.

Alvin Carter has been driving a school bus in Skokie, Ill., for 28 years. He has become a reliable source of joy for his community and the kids he drives.

Singer and rapper Doja Cat released her third studio album, entitled Planet Her. Music critic Briana Younger discusses some of the album's standout songs.

Millions of people use Twitter to post short updates about what they're doing, what they're reading and whom they're talking to. Now there's a new tool similar to Twitter that can help keep work e-mail inboxes clean. It's called Yammer.