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Students and community activists from New England to the Deep South are demanding their colleges take more ambitious steps to atone for past sins amid the nation's latest racial reckoning. (May 13)

Pandemic-hit oyster farmers are rescued by a program that buys and deploys surplus stock onto depleted shellfish reefs to provide habitat for fish, protect shorelines from erosion and filter out pollutants and excess nutrients from the water.

Denver police are shifting gears to tackle the problem of increased street racing during the pandemic through a renewed push for their "Take it to the Track" event, which provides a safe, controlled venue for those who have the need for speed.

A New Delhi crematorium is overwhelmed as India's coronavirus death toll passes 250,000, with a record 4,205 fatalities in 24 hours as the pandemic rages across the vast country of 1.3 billion.

Health officials in California and other states are ramping up efforts to find and vaccinate isolated residents who want the COVID-19 vaccine but have difficulty leaving their homes because of physical disability or other health issues. (May 11)

China has sent half a million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Bangladesh, in Beijing's latest move to fill the gap left by India as it reels from the pandemic.

Officials are scrambling to find alternate routes to deliver gasoline in the Southeast U.S. after a hack of the nation's largest fuel pipeline led to panic-buying that contributed to more than 1,000 gas stations running out of fuel. (May 12)

The U.S. military has completed about 10% of its pullout from Afghanistan. But defense officials left members of Congress with more questions than answers Wednesday, as the U.S. inches closer and closer to President Joe Biden's Sept. 11 withdrawal deadline.

Washington plans to lift many coronavirus restrictions and aims for a full reopening by mid-June. The U.S. capital has already vaccinated more than 70% of its residents. Saqib Ul Islam reports on a unique vaccine drive in the city.

Conservative lawyer George Conway said that GOP lawmakers are "trying to memory hole what happened" with the US Capitol insurrection after House Republicans voted to remove Rep. Liz Cheney as GOP conference chair over her opposition to former President Trump.

Many migrant families crossing the border in southeast Texas are taken to a Catholic-run shelter in McAllen. There, Sister Norma Pimentel says all of the migrants say they fear for the lives of their children. (May 12)

Is that an American twang creeping into Harry Styles' speech? Jeanne Moos reports fans of Styles are riled.