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‘Sesame Street’ asks ‘Ted Lasso’ actor to talk about an F-word

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:27:00 +0000

Actor Brett Goldstein plays Roy Kent — a kind but crotchety British footballer with an exceptionally foul mouth. The word Sesame Street asked Goldstein to talks about: fairness.

China’s temp agencies recruit underemployed migrants to enforce lockdown restrictions

Emily Feng — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:27:00 +0000

China's "zero COVID" approach requires hundreds of thousands of temporary workers. They are poorly paid and poorly treated. Where are the new COVID control workers coming from?

Pentagon says Russia is still laying the groundwork for offensive in eastern Ukraine

Array — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:27:00 +0000

Ukraine's president says the long awaited Russian offensive in the east of the east has begun. After Ukraine's surprising resilience in the north, this next phase of the fighting is seen as critical.

Finishing the Boston Marathon had special significance for Henry Richard

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 09:55:00 +0000

Henry Richard, 20, crossed the finish line Monday in honor of his late brother Martin, who at eights years old, was the youngest victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

A Ukrainian family finds solace in America but cannot escape heartbreak

Olivia Hampton — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 09:00:00 +0000

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Eka Koliubaieva and her two daughters fled to the U.S., where a Virginia couple took them in after learning about the family's plight from a Facebook post.

What Russians think of the war in Ukraine, according to an independent pollster

Rachel Treisman — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 05:15:00 +0000

Denis Volkov acknowledges that public opinion polling in Russia has its challenges and pitfalls, but says the findings still hold valuable information.

Alex Jones’ Infowars files for bankruptcy after Sandy Hook defamation lawsuits

John Burnett — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 22:03:00 +0000

Infowars has filed for bankruptcy. The move postpones founder Alex Jones' civil trial that had been scheduled to begin next week.

Ukrainian civilians living close to the frontlines say they feel trapped

Array — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 22:03:00 +0000

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are still living close to the front lines as Russia readies another offensive. Here's how people are surviving in the city of Mykoliav.

Ukraine crisis raises question: Does food aid go equally to ‘Black and white lives’?

Nurith Aizenman — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 21:52:00 +0000

That's what Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization and others ask in the wake of the outpouring of money to help Ukrainian victims of the war amid record levels of global hunger.

Here’s where and why the gender wage gap is closing

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 19:02:36 +0000

When it comes to women succeeding in the workforce, there’s a lot to talk about.