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Katie Chubb, a community organizer, stands in an empty lot in Augusta, Ga., where she’s been trying to open a birth center for six years. She says lack of cooperation from local hospitals has been a primary obstacle. Kendrick Brinson/For NPR hide caption toggle caption Kendrick Brinson/For NPR Standing in front of an empty lot one afternoon in the Georgia …

Noah Sheidlower spent two days following Lydia and Bill Hinds, a married couple of nearly 30 years, who say they’re just scraping by in central Connecticut. He reviewed their financial records for this story. He also interviewed more than 90 workers in their 80s and 90s, and 30 researchers and nonprofit leaders focused on older Americans at work. This story …

The North Korean flag files over the North Korean embassy in Beijing, in July 2007. Peter Parks/AFP hide caption toggle caption Peter Parks/AFP An Arizona woman was sentenced to prison on Thursday for her role in a $17 million scam that helped North Koreans steal Americans’ identities and use them to land remote IT jobs at hundreds of U.S. companies. …

A 23-year-old woman has sued a Portland nail salon after she claims a manicure left her with a virus that causes a sexually transmitted infection.  The anonymous woman said she visited PDX Nails near Portland, Oregon, for an acrylic nail manicure on June 1, 2023, according to The Oregonian/Oregon Live. However, what was meant to be simple beauty service, typically …

A missing North Carolina woman was found alive in Colorado more than eight months after her disappearance.  Kelsey Pittman’s family last spoke to her in November 2024, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Inyo County is home to California’s Death Valley National Park. Pittman was 33 at the time.  Pittman was last seen in St. George, …

Ducky the dog is 13 years old, fiercely loyal and a big fan of Halloween. He also has a super power: Ducky can change color. “He was a very dark puppy,” Erin Abay, Ducky’s mom, told The Dodo. By the time he turned 1, his silky, straight hair faded into a gray-beige color Abay called “greige.” She dubbed him “Ducky …

Arizona woman sentenced over $17 million North Korea worker fraud scheme  The Washington Post Arizona woman sentenced to 8 years in prison for hosting ‘laptop farm’ for North Korean remote workers  Politico Arizona woman sentenced in North Korean tech-worker scheme  CNN US woman gets 8-year sentence for stealing identities to give North Koreans jobs  BBC Woman learns fate after DOJ guilty plea admitting she …

The woman seen in the viral video of a couple trying to hide after being featured on a giant “kiss cam” screen at a Coldplay concert last week has resigned from her position at data company Astronomer. Kristin Cabot resigned as Astronomer’s chief people officer, the New York-based company said in a statement Thursday. Cabot did not respond to a …

Christina Chapman, 50, an Arizona woman who pleaded guilty to charges connected to the global North Korean IT workers scheme, has been sentenced to 8.5 years in federal prison. U.S. District Court Judge Randolph D. Moss also ordered Chapman to forfeit proceeds of $284,000 that was to be paid to the North Koreans. She was also ordered to pay a …

Arizona woman sentenced to eight years in prison for hosting ‘laptop farm’ for North Korean remote workers  Politico Woman learns fate after DOJ guilty plea admitting she helped North Korean tech workers infiltrate US companies  Fox News US woman gets 8-year sentence for stealing identities to give North Koreans jobs  BBC Confessions of a Laptop Farmer: How an American Helped North Korea’s Wild …