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Ariana Criste from the Climate Action Campaign rides her ebike down the freshly slurry sealed Park Boulevard in advance of the new separated bike lane.

San Diego plans for protected bike lanes on Park Boulevard in University Heights

City transportation officials plan to install protected bike lanes on a one-mile stretch of Park Boulevard following a street resurfacing project.

Conner Curran, 9 (right), and his brother Will, 7, at their home in Ridgefield, Conn., this week. The gene therapy treatment that stopped the muscle wasting of Conner's muscular dystrophy two years ago took more than 30 years of research to develop.

A Boy With Muscular Dystrophy Was Headed For A Wheelchair. Then Gene Therapy Arrived

Gene therapy has helped a 9-year-old boy regain enough muscle strength to run. If successful in others, the treatment could change the lives of thousands of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

The main entrance to the campus of the Darul Uloom seminary in Deoband, India, where the Deobandi strain of Islam was founded in the 19th century. Among its more recent adherents are the Taliban.

The Taliban's Ideology Has Surprising Roots In British-Ruled India

The Taliban's ideology has distant links to India. Scholars say Afghanistan's new leaders might listen to clerics in the birthplace of Deobandi Islam, though the clerics deny ties with the Taliban.

Nurse's aide Patricia Johnson has worked for the Ambassador Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on the north side of Chicago for nearly 24 years. The pandemic has been grueling on her and her colleagues. "The hardest part is watching people die alone without their families," says Johnson, who now sometimes works double shifts due to staff shortages.

The pandemic pummeled long-term care – it may not recover quickly, experts warn

Hundreds of thousands of nursing home workers have quit since the pandemic began, and the ones still working suffer from burnout. Industry leaders worry the system is fracturing.

8-year-old Kainoa Ranjo gets his first COVID vaccine shot. San Diego, Nov. 15, 2021.

COVID-19 vaccinations continue on the road as some parents keep protesting

A new week brings a new round in the battle over COVID-19 vaccinations. Some parents kept their children out of school again Monday in protest of vaccination mandates

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on economic issues via videoconference in Moscow on Thursday.

Russia says it will stage nuclear drills amid Ukraine standoff

Russia's The Defense Ministry says President Vladimir Putin will personally oversee this weekend's exercise.

Daryl McCormack and Emma Thompson star in the film, Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.

Emma Thompson on her new film — and the idea the female orgasm has to be performative

In her new film, Thompson portrays a widow who reckons with her own sexual discovery in an experience she calls "irresistibly delicious."

Former NATO commander says a no-fly zone over Ukraine must be on the table

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with retired U.S. Air Force general Philip Breedlove about calls for a no-fly zone over Ukraine — and why that could push Russia and the democratic West closer to war.

Argenis Dominguez fueling up his SUV at a gas station in Boston. He drives Uber for a living and says the higher gas prices mean less money in his pocket.

Record gas prices hit working class Americans with inflation already surging

With each passing day the disruption of oil markets related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushes up gas prices in the U.S. to a new record.

Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke, right, hugs Crystal Mason after she introduced him to speak during a primary election gathering in Fort Worth, Texas, on March 1.

Texas court orders that illegal voting conviction against Crystal Mason be reviewed

At the time Mason voted in 2016, she was on supervised release from prison after serving time on federal tax evasion charges. She received a five-year sentence for illegal voting.

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