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The re-recorded version of a song from Pug's debut EP delivers a timeless message with a little more heat.

Female community health care workers protest in New Delhi, India, in August 2020. The women are part of a government program called Accredited Social Health Activists — and are demanding higher pay and better working conditions. In May, the program won an award from the World Health Organization.

These female health-care workers won a huge WHO honor. They'd like a raise, too

India's all-female task force of community health-care workers won the World Health Organization's Global Health Leaders Awards. But instead of recognition, some want a better salary and benefits.

Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, ordered the removal of a Soviet monument in April, after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. The monument was erected in 1982 as a symbol of unification and friendship between Ukraine and Russia under the Soviet government. Officials have also ordered some streets linked to Russia to be renamed.

Ukraine agonizes over Russian culture and language in its social fabric

A third of Ukrainians have called Russian their mother tongue. Russian statues and cultural markers abound. Are these influences inherently toxic? The war is prompting emotional conversations.

Thursday, June 2nd, 2022

The Board of Regents yesterday approved a 6% patient rate hike. An Iowa man who pleaded guilty to charging police in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021 will serve jail time. Plus, more than 100 Afghan refugees have moved to Sioux City to work at the Tyson meat processing plant across the border in Nebraska but the resources they needed to resettle in Iowa weren’t always quick to follow.

A woman loads her car at a food pantry in Norfolk, Virginia. Inflation sent food prices soaring just as emergency pandemic support for many people ended.

Demand at food banks is way up again. But inflation makes it harder to meet the need

High food and gas prices are squeezing working families, sending some to food pantries for the first time. But providers are struggling with high costs, fewer donations and supply chain woes.

The U.S. will forgive $5.8 billion of loans to Corinthian Colleges students

The U.S. Department of Education has announced it will automatically erase the remaining student loan debts of more than half a million borrowers who attended the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges.

A statue of Volodymyr the Great, a towering figure in Ukraine, is wrapped in canvas to protect it from Russian attacks in Kyiv. Volodymyr brought Christianity to Kyiv in the year 988, and baptized residents in the city's river. The Russians also claim him as a central figure in their history, calling him Vladimir the Great.

Volodymyr vs. Vladimir: How rival statues explain the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Ukrainians call a legendary 10th-century ruler Volodymyr the Great. Russians call him Vladimir the Great. Here's a story on their dueling statues — and historical narratives — in Kyiv and Moscow.

News brief: Tulsa shooting, Corinthian student loans, inflation hits food banks

There was a mass shooting in Tulsa, Okla. The Biden administration forgives nearly $6 billion in student loans linked to defunct Corinthian Colleges. Inflation has more people turning to food banks.

Moses Ingram as Reva Sevander in <em>Obi-Wan Kenobi. </em>

Racist 'Star Wars' fans aren't new. Why doesn't Disney do more to protect its actors?

Obi-Wan Kenobi star Moses Ingram shared the hateful messages she's received online. But why didn't Disney do more before she got them?

At the home of Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who served as the fourth president of Estonia from 2006 until 2016.

Former Estonian president speaks about the war in Ukraine and the way forward

Former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves wasn't surprised Russia invaded Ukraine. In an interview on his family's farm, he says he hopes the world is waking up to the dangers Russia poses.

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