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The history of America’s fight for fair labor

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 18:41:48 +0000

The pandemic has prompted a lot of change. One considerable shift? Workers telling bosses they’re not gonna take it anymore.

Redistricting and Democrats’ stalled agenda put this blue Arizona House seat in play

Array — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 18:21:00 +0000

A redrawn Phoenix-area district represented by Rep. Greg Stanton is ground zero for the kind of race Democrats need to win in order to keep control of the House.

Actor Michelle Yeoh wants to change the way we think of superheroes

Tonya Mosley — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 18:15:00 +0000

When Yeoh first read the script for Everything Everywhere All at Once, she gave a big sigh of relief: Finally, here was a film that put a middle-aged mother in the role of action hero.

‘The Northman’ is a brutal revenge story marked by violence, vengeance and vastness

Justin Chang — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 18:08:00 +0000

Mostly set in 10th-century Iceland, The Northman tells the story of a Viking prince who sets out to avenge his father's death at the hands of his uncle — a legend that inspired Shakespeare's Hamlet.

D.C. family says a shoddy house flip punctured their dreams of homeownership

Ally Schweitzer — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:46:14 +0000

Tasharn Richardson always wanted to buy a house for her family. But the home she purchased last year has proven to be disastrous, she says.

How the Russian invasion is impacting the Ukrainian landscape

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:01:46 +0000

Olexiy Maruhshack and his team stayed in Ukraine during the fighting – tracking the impact of the war on the country’s wildlife and natural environment.

An opposition party politician’s view of Ukraine

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 12:48:35 +0000

Oleksiy Goncharenko is a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, European Solidarity Faction.

A 2nd Amazon warehouse on Staten Island begins voting on a union

Andrea Hsu — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:33:00 +0000

Less than a month after the Amazon Labor Union unionized the first Amazon facility in the U.S., workers at a smaller warehouse across the street begin voting on whether to join the upstart union.

The Supreme Court ponders the right to pray on the 50-yard line

Nina Totenberg — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:33:00 +0000

The case comes to the court in the midst of a sea change in the law relating to the relationship between government and religion.

As COVID cases rise, the U.S. is in a better place than before, Jha says

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:33:00 +0000

NPR's Leila Faldel speaks with Dr. Ashish Jha, head of the Biden administration's coronavirus response team, about the latest on mask requirements and the outlook for COVID-19 in the coming months.