Newstag UK

CNN's Anderson Cooper discusses some of his favorite films and also talks about one his mom's favorite quotes. Watch "Full Circle" Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 6p E.T.

A California police officer who was killed while serving a search warrant was identified as a detective in San Luis Obispo. Police said the suspect was lying in wait in the apartment and fired at officers before shooting and killing himself. (May 11)

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the National Rifle Association's bankruptcy case, leaving the powerful gun-rights group to face a New York state lawsuit that accuses it of financial abuses and aims to put it out of business. (May 11)

The South Carolina House of Representatives passed a bill that allows for firing squads to carry out death penalty sentences and makes electrocution a more likely means of execution when lethal injection isn't possible.

Labor organizers spread 1,200 hard hats across the grounds of the Michigan Capitol, saying they represented jobs that would be lost without the Line 5 oil pipeline (May 11)

Dennis Williams, the former president of the United Auto Workers, is sentenced to 21 months in prison for corruption (May 11)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed $12 billion in new funding to get more people experiencing homelessness in the state into housing and to "functionally end family homelessness" within five years. (May 11)

Bangladesh is seeing a rise in the number of female journalists being harassed by fundamentalist groups, raising security concerns for reporters out on assignment. VOA's Sanjana Feroz has more.

US federal agents on Tuesday launched an investigation into a Hindu temple in New Jersey after workers alleged they were lured and forced to work more than 12 hours per day at slave wages to help build the temple. (May 11)

Somalia received 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in March, but health officials say less than half the doses have been used. Authorities attribute the slow uptake to fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and misinformation about the vaccine itself.

New York officials are trying a mix of mandates and incentives to overcome vaccine hesitancy. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says anyone who gets vaccinated at one of six New York City subway stations from Wednesday through Sunday can get a week of free rides (May 11)

Among the many stories of World War Two, Nazi Germany's Siege of Leningrad – the Soviet city now known as Russia's Saint Petersburg – stands among the most harrowing. It also helped shape the world we live in today, as Charles Maynes reports for VOA, from St.