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Bulbul Aktar, a s<em>hasthya kormi</em>, or community health worker, with the malaria elimination program in Bangladesh, goes door to door to treat malaria patients. "This is my job, my duty," says Aktar. "Every single home, I have to know about them and visit them."

Malaria is on the ropes in Bangladesh. But the parasite is punching back

What does it take to beat malaria? Thousands of moccasins walking down rural roads, overnight bus rides for lab tests ... and a highly effective drug. But the parasite isn't going along with the plan.

UPS drivers had threatened to walk off the job unless the company provided better pay for part-time workers.

UPS union calls off strike threat after securing pay raises for workers

A tentative agreement between UPS and the Teamsters has averted a potential strike at the company. The deal will secure pay raises for part-time workers.

NPR's Claudia Grisales interviews Rep. Jamie Raskin at his home in Takoma Park, Md. on June 12, 2023.

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin passes on Senate, announces House reelection run

Raskin gave himself until July to announce his plans. He was weighing a reelection campaign against a run for the U.S. Senate. He went into remission for cancer in April.

Jeff Zients removes his mask in this file photo from April 13, 2021. President Biden has decided to choose his former COVID-19 response coordinator as his new chief of staff, replacing Ron Klain.

Biden is getting a new chief of staff. Jeff Zients will replace Ron Klain

Jeff Zients will take over as the White House faces a slew of congressional investigations. Also looming: the special counsel probe into classified documents found in Biden's files.

Afghan refugee Abdullah Ravish speaks to a hiring manager during a job fair in El Cajon, Sept. 30, 2022.

Refugee hiring fair provides a pathway for financial stability

Cost of living is front of mind for many and especially for those fleeing other countries and looking for work.

James Cameron walks in Purmamarca, Argentina, earlier this month. He's compared the OceanGate submersible tragedy to that of the Titanic itself.

James Cameron says the Titan passengers probably knew the submersible was in trouble

The Titanic director has made 33 dives to the shipwreck and visited ocean depths in a submersible he built himself. He compares OceanGate to the Titanic in that both ignored safety warnings.

Sally Field plays a cotton mill worker in the 1979 drama <em>Norma Rae.</em>

Wonder where Hollywood's strikes are headed? Movies might offer a clue

Hollywood has churned out films that depict labor organizers as communists, and labor bosses as gangsters. So it should come as no surprise that real-life negotiations with the studios are so tricky.

FILE - President Joe Biden walks along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, Jan. 8, 2023. The Biden administration has requested 1,500 troops for the U.S.-Mexico border amid an expected migrant surge following the end of pandemic-era restrictions.

Biden would veto House GOP bill on border enforcement

The White House says President Joe Biden would veto a House GOP bill that aims to restrict asylum, build more border wall and cut a program that allows migrants a chance to stay in the U.S. lawfully.

Residents and staff gather for a dance at the Ararat Nursing Facility in Los Angeles in April 2021. The pandemic exposed the dangers of inadequate staffing at nursing homes.

Understaffed nursing homes are a huge problem, and Biden's promised fix 'sabotaged'

A study commissioned by the government to recommend minimum staffing levels at nursing homes drew no conclusions. And that means Biden's pledge to set those minimums may come to far less than hoped.

A Metrolink train approaching Oceanside in this undated photo.

Temporary wall could protect railroad tracks from San Clemente landslide

A temporary wall between the cliffs and tracks could be built. But will it work to keep passenger trains running?

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