Bookmark Bar - Strange numbers Next to Titles

For some reason in my bookmark bar there are numbers in parenthesis next to the titles. For example I see "News (260)" where before it was just "News". They seem to come and go. I have gone in and tried to rename. But after I do the number is still there in parens next to the title. Not a major annoyance but I'd like to rid of them. Any thoughts? Suggestions on how to get rid of it.

Hi,
The number by the side is an indication of how many unread RSS news articles you have in that folder.
Do you have any RSS feeds present in the News folder? They will have an icon that looks like a newspaper.

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