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Courtney Meadows says the coronavirus has changed how other people see her job as a grocery store cashier.

Grocery Cashier Is 'Putting A Little Positivity' Into Seniors' Shopping Trips

Grocery stores have carved out special shopping times for seniors and others. "Just to be able to spend that one-on-one time with ... them. They definitely make me laugh," Courtney Meadows says.

Workers remove the final New York City pay phone near Seventh Avenue and 50th Street in Midtown Manhattan on Monday. Despite the fanfare, there are still some pay phones standing in the city.

Last call: New York City bids an official farewell to its last public pay phone

Officials gathered in Times Square for the removal of what they called New York City's last public pay phone, which is headed to a local museum. But a number of other pay phones are still standing.

Suzan Mubarak and her boyfriend, Mitch Domier, live only a few miles apart in Bozeman, Mont., yet the pandemic has limited their ability to see each other in person.

The Pandemic Made Their Love Long Distance — From Just A Few Miles Apart

Everyone is trying to figure out how relationships work in the pandemic. That includes a couple keeping their love alive, ever since their group homes for adults with disabilities went into lockdown.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, center, sits in a car as he leaves Parliament after attending the weekly Prime Ministers' Questions session in London, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022.

U.K. ministers are closing ranks around Boris Johnson amid calls for his resignation

Johnson apologized on Wednesday for attending a "bring your own booze" party in the garden of the prime minister's Downing Street office and residence in May 2020.

Pope Francis waves during the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday.

Pope Francis issues an urgent plea for an end to the war

The pope urged people to take in refugees from Ukraine. More than 2.5 million people have already fled because of the invasion, according to the United Nations.

Former President Barack Obama speaks in Glasgow, Scotland, in November. Obama says he has tested positive for COVID.

Obama has tested positive for COVID

The former president said he tested positive for COVID-19. He has a scratchy throat "but am feeling fine otherwise." He said he is vaccinated and boosted.

Researchers estimate there are only about 10 vaquita porpoises still living in Mexico's Gulf of California.

Scientists say endangered porpoise isn't doomed — so long as humans stop killing them

Fishing in the Gulf of California has nearly wiped out the vaquita marina. But a new genetic analysis offers hope for the engandered porpoise: the species can make a comeback, if humans protect it.

Medical debt upended their lives. Here's what it took from them

First, they were struck by illness and then by medical bills they couldn't pay. Here are 15 stories of Americans living under the shadow of health care debt.

Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, sits with Ahmaud Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, at the murder trial of Greg McMichael his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in the Glynn County Courthouse.

Jesse Jackson visits the courtroom in the trial over Ahmaud Arbery's killing

As the trial enters its second full week, a defense attorney objected to Jackson being in court, saying the presence of a civil rights icon could influence the jury.

On "A Most Foiled Assault," fierce competition and sexism stymie a murder investigation during a women's fencing trial.

FRANKIE DRAKE MYSTERIES: Season 4

Sundays, May 15 - June 26, 2022 at 7 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand now with KPBS Passport. Season 4 delivers a slate of new adventures as the ladies of Drake Private Detectives take on more challenging cases, and face off against some impressive foes.

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