A pioneering program in Ethiopia teaches all students about this "taboo" topic. A new UNICEF report, released on “World Menstrual Hygiene Day," assesses how countries respond to menstrual issue...
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/28/g-s1-1310/menstruation-menstrual-education-periods-stigma
The painting, entitled Ecce Homo, was attributed to a different artist when it went to auction in 2021, but the Prado museum says it has now been verified as a lost work of the Italian master.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/28/nx-s1-4983674/caravaggio-painting-prado-ecce-homo
When Rachel Somerstein had an emergency C-section with her first child, the anesthesia didn't work. She recounts her own experience and the history of C-sections in her book, Invisible Labor.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/28/nx-s1-4977627/rachel-somerstein-invisible-labor-c-section
“The Pope never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms” during a closed-door discussion among bishops earlier this month, according to a Vatican press official.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/28/nx-s1-4983747/pope-francis-apology-slur-gay-men-vatican
Nash began her career in 1957 when flight attendants handed out cigarettes and got weighed before shifts. She earned her Guinness World Record after 64 years of service in 2022 — then kept work...
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/28/g-s1-1286/longest-serving-flight-attendant-dies-bette-nash
After a shooting, relatives or neighbors of the victim are sometimes left to clean up human remains on their own. Philadelphia's new program will start addressing that fraught task.
GOP lawmakers plan to keep antisemitism central to attacks on Democrats
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/24/g-s1-930/republican-campus-antisemitism
Some activists and historians says it's time to rename the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore
From Florida to Arizona, reproductive rights supporters seek to add abortion access to state constitutions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion in 2022.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/23/nx-s1-4977323/abortion-law-legal-florida-arizona-amendment
The summations come after a series of witnesses and documents have supported the Manhattan district attorney's case. But the defense says too much depends on the testimony of Trump’s former per...
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/28/g-s1-1193/trump-hush-money-trial