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  • People attend a rally denouncing antisemitic violence on May 27 in Cedarhurst, New York. Following a surge in antisemitic hate crimes triggered by last month's Israel-Gaza conflict, some Jews are wondering why the condemnation hasn't been stronger.
    Antisemitism Spikes, And Many Jews Wonder: 'Where Are Our Allies?'
    After turning out for racial justice and other movements in the U.S., they are frustrated by the response to attacks and hatred directed at Jews following the latest Mideast violence.
  • A National Guard soldier stands on an outside balcony at the Hennepin County Government Center last week in Minneapolis where the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd continues.
    Reporter's Notebook: Impressions Of A City As Derek Chauvin's Trial Nears Its End
    The nation's largest suburban shopping mall was filled with consumers, while National Guard troops stood guard in downtown Minneapolis. Making sense of the contrasting images is hard.
  • Phil Gaimon was racing for a spot in the Olympics when he crashed with a fellow cyclist. He sailed over the handlebars and hit the ground hard. The result: a fractured collarbone, five broken ribs, a partially collapsed lung, a broken shoulder blade and huge medical bills.
    Cyclist's Olympic Dream Becomes $200,000 Medical Bill Nightmare
    Cyclist Phil Gaimon was competing in a race that could have won him a spot in the Tokyo Olympics. Instead, a crash landed him in two hospitals where his out-of-network surgeries garnered huge bills.
  • Jena Martinez-Inzunza tested positive for COVID-19. Her colleague died. She's cautious about reopening schools, despite the difficulties of online instruction.
    A Teacher Who Contracted COVID-19 Cautions Against In-Person Schooling
    Three teachers in rural Arizona contracted COVID-19 after working together in a classroom. One of them died. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jena Martinez-Inzunza about her experience.
  • Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd died after testing positive for coronavirus. Other teachers she worked with tested positive as well. "She was a very loving, very faithful person and she was very kind," says her colleague Jena Martinez-Inzunza.
    A Teacher Who Contracted COVID-19 Cautions Against In-Person Schooling
    Three teachers in rural Arizona contracted COVID-19 after working together in a classroom. One of them died. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jena Martinez-Inzunza about her experience.
  • Faced with financial issues, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater closed its Chelsea location in 2017.
    Comedy Community Mourns The 'End Of An Era' As UCB Closes New York Locations
    Upright Citizens Brigade, the improv mainstay and launchpad for many comics, will no longer have a physical space in New York City. Despite UCB's flaws, "people are grieving," a former UCBer says.
  • Women's rights activists, including Jane Marcus of Medford, pictured in May, have been urging the legislature to pass a law that codifies abortion rights in state law.
    Massachusetts Senate Overrides Veto, Passes Law Expanding Abortion Access
    "Pregnant people who once faced near-insurmountable barriers accessing abortion care can now seize the right to control their own bodies," Senate President Emerita Harriette Chandler said Tuesday.
  • Justice Williams with gym goers and kettlebells at CORE in Brookline, Mass.
    'Queer Gym' Empowers LGBTQ+ Clients, Both Physically And Mentally
    A Massachusetts pop-up gym aims to strengthen the bodies and spirits of LGBTQ+ clients, who haven't always been made to feel comfortable in other workout spaces.
  • You can do a lot of things with minimal risk after being vaccinated. Although our public health expert says that maybe it's not quite time for a rave or other tightly packed events. Above: Fans take photographs of Megan Thee Stallion at a London show in 2019.
    Coronavirus FAQ: You're Vaccinated. Cool! Now About Those 'Breakthrough' Infections...
    No vaccine is 100% effective. Though so-called "breakthrough" COVID cases are rare, the virus is circulating widely. What's a vaccinated person to do? And ... not do?
  • A Nobel Pursuit: Part 2
    UC San Diego professor Brian Keating wanted to understand how our solar system, our galaxy, our universe came to be. The big bang theory didn’t fully explain the properties of our universe. So he built a telescope at the South Pole to detect signals from the earliest time possible, billions of light years away. This journey led him down a path of ambition, rivalry, discovery and failure. Ultimately, Keating has to grapple with his ego and what it means to be successful as a scientist This is part two of Keating's story. If you haven't listened to part one, go back and listen to that one first. Brian Keating's book about his journey searching for Inflation: https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Nobel-Prize-Cosmology-Ambition/dp/1324000910 A link to the music video that accompanies "The Surface of Light" song that played during the end credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2INJiNpZFBI Correction: Margot mentions that her friend was first author on the the paper that suggested BICEP2's results could be explained by dust. He was, in fact, the second author. The first author was Raphael Flauger who is coincidentally a Physics professor at UC San Diego.
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