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The artist riela, whose new album <em>Llorar y Perrear</em> is releasing March 11, 2022.

Miami-based musician riela's new EP 'Llorar y Perrear' is a big 2022 mood

Adrian Florido speaks to Miami-based musician riela about her new EP, Llorar y Perrear.

The kids at West Side Elementary in Healdsburg, Calif., handed out Peptoc hotline cards to the public to help spread the word about the project.

Press 3 for a pep talk from kindergartners. A new hotline gives you options for joy

What started as an art project at a California elementary school has gone viral. The free hotline offers wise advice and encouraging messages from kids to anyone who calls.

Residents queue to undergo tests for the COVIDd-19 coronavirus in China's northeastern Jilin province on March 12, 2022.

A surge in COVID-19 spurs new lockdowns in China's cities

In the latest wave, the highly transmissible omicron variant has moved more quickly than contact tracing allows.

Legal experts say so-called bounty hunter bills, including the Missouri measure that would let people sue anyone they suspect of helping a resident get an abortion in another state, are most certainly unconstitutional, with little chance of withstanding legal challenges. Here, abortion-rights activists gathered to protest Republican-led restrictions in St. Louis last September.

Can states limit abortion and gender-affirming treatments outside their borders?

Building on SB 8 in Texas, some Republican lawmakers are trying a new strategy: pushing bills that would attempt to limit what residents can and can't do even beyond state lines.

The Killers have canceled their scheduled date at Moscow's Park Live festival this summer.

Live Nation Entertainment is ceasing business with Russia and acts cancel dates there

The company's announcement comes as musical acts from Louis Tomlinson to The Killers are canceling their show dates in Russia, in response to the invasion.

A heroin user in a South Bronx neighborhood which is experiencing an epidemic in drug use, especially heroin and other opioid based drugs.

Black Americans are now dying from drug overdoses at a higher rate than whites

New research shows drug overdose deaths continue to surge among Black Americans. For the first time since 1999, Black Americans are dying at a higher rate per capita than white Americans.

Finally Friday From Home with Ian Noe and Rhyan Sinclair

Watch the four-song video sets from Kentucky artists Ian Noe and Rhyan Sinclair for Finally Friday From Home

Tennessee School librarians face criticism in fight over book scrutiny

Democratic State Rep. G.A. Hardaway: 'I am offended when librarians are compared to sex predators and your actions are compared to sex trafficking.'

Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., speaks with supporters during a campaign event at the Flying Machine restaurant in Lawrenceville, Ga. Hice, one of the nation's preeminent election deniers, is running for Georgia secretary of state.

Georgia's race to oversee voting pits an election denier against an election defender

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who denied entreaties to overturn the 2020 race, faces a primary challenge from one of the nation's preeminent election deniers, Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga.

In this April 28, 2011, photo, an Afghan national army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan.

House to vote on bill to help veterans exposed to burn pits

The bill would open up federal health care benefits to millions of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans exposed to toxic substances during their service.

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