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As America tentatively emerges from weeks of lockdowns, it is becoming clear that the pandemic has taken its toll on workers who have been on the front lines all along. They have packed and delivered supplies, cared for the sick and elderly, kept streets and buildings clean and taken other workers to their jobs. Thousands of them have gotten sick, recovered and returned to work. Many have died. An Associated Press analysis of census data shows that the burden of keeping the country open has been borne unevenly across gender, racial and socioeconomic lines. They are mostly women, they are mostly people of color and they are more likely than other workers to be immigrants.

Architects are already looking beyond COVID-19 to imagine the office of 2025 and beyond — an office that will keep us safe on the job, whatever pandemic virus strikes next.

Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, June 26 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! After years of anticipation, autonomous vehicles are now being tested on public roads around the world. As ambitious innovators race to develop what they see as the next high-tech pot of gold, some experts warn there are still daunting challenges ahead. How do self-driving cars work?

As protests continue around the country in response to several high-profile deaths of African Americans in recent weeks, black people say they are frustrated, fearful and fatigued.

As many island nations attempt to keep the coronavirus out, they also risk getting cut off from the outside world their economies depend on.

Sara Jacobs, an anti-poverty advocate and granddaughter of Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs, is ahead in a large field of candidates.

Followers of President Jair Bolsonaro demand that the country returns to work and ends closures imposed to reduce the spread of COVID-19, which has killed 77 in Brazil.

In the shadow of Israeli watchtowers and settlements, Palestinians have set up improvised checkpoints to enforce a Palestinian Authority lockdown in areas where Palestinian police can't patrol.

The retired army captain has expressed admiration for the country's brutal 1964-1985 dictatorship; made incendiary remarks about women, minorities and LGBT people; and decried "fake news."

Twice a year, on the fall and spring equinoxes, the sun sets perfectly framed by Chicago's skyscrapers. The perhaps unintended phenomenon takes its name from England's ancient monument Stonehenge.