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Growing up in Illinois, when it came time for Bret Bielema to pick his favorite baseball team, he listened to his grandfather Rich Bielema. “He was a huge Cubs fan,” Bielema said. “It kind of drove ...

Thousands of Syrian insurgents have pushed on with their advances on government-held areas in the country’s northwest. They have reached the outskirts of Syria’s second largest city Aleppo and are ...