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A worker performs maintenance on pipes used during brine extraction at a lithium mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile on Aug. 24.

In Chile's desert lie vast reserves of lithium — key for electric car batteries

Chile is part of a South American region known as the "lithium triangle," where miners are trying to meet skyrocketing demand for the material.

Hanna Wilt outside her home on Nov. 19, 2021, in Manasquan, N.J. Wilt was diagnosed with terminal cancer attributed to asbestos exposure a few years ago and joined many suing Johnson & Johnson over its talcum baby powder, which she believed exposed her to asbestos.

Rich companies are using a quiet tactic to block lawsuits: bankruptcy

Companies that aren't bankrupt are using controversial maneuvers in U.S. bankruptcy court to block tens of thousands of suits. A woman suing Johnson & Johnson died while her case was in legal limbo.

Dallas Theater Center on Oct. 4, 2022. The play "Trouble in Mind" is about racism in a white theater company in the 1950s.

Without more federal money, what will regional theaters do?

Subscriptions and ticket sales are down, but theater is needed more than ever. What theaters are doing to survive.

Oksana Dudar, left, the wife of Viktor Dudar, hugs her mother-in-law at her husband's funeral Tuesday in Lviv, Ukraine. Viktor was a soldier who was killed by Russian forces. A U.S. defense analyst estimates more than 1,500 were killed in the first five days of the war. The Ukrainian military tells NPR it isn't disclosing the number of soldiers lost in the fight with Russia.

Hundreds gather to honor fallen Ukrainian soldiers

The first of Ukraine's fallen soldiers are starting to come home. Two men were killed on the front lines in Russia's war on Ukraine. Hundreds gathered to mourn at their funeral on Tuesday.

<strong>February 18, 2005:</strong> Swiss Roger Federer returns to Russian Nikolay Davydenko in the quarter final of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam.

These photos follow the career of tennis great Roger Federer

Roger Federer announced he is retiring from tennis. Federer has won 20 Grand Slam singles titles, including eight at Wimbledon.

Ukrainian infantry soldiers go through training exercises at a military camp outside Dnipro, Ukraine, on Oct. 24. Official "morale officers" watch over the soldiers, keeping them focused on the fight, addressing any problems quickly and not letting them fester inside, which can be dangerous on the battlefield.

Exhausted Ukrainian soldiers fight mental fatigue as the war drags on

Commanders say Ukrainian forces' motivation and spirit are the most important weapons in the fight to protect their nation. They are turning to official "morale officers" and psychologists to help.

Andriy and Iryna Grycenko (center) mourn the death of their 11-year-old daughter, Anastasiya, at her funeral in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 20. Anastasiya was killed on Sept. 17 when a Russian S-300 missile obliterated her home in Chuhuiv. At right is Iryna's sister, Anastasiya's aunt, Rimma Leiba.

Ukrainians grieve for an 11-year-old girl killed by a Russian missile

A neighbor recalls the girl saying in her final moments, "Why did this happen to me? I didn't do anything bad to them."

This is one of 194 homes The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority bought this year. The purchase is a first for the agency, which wanted to prevent investors from buying the homes and possibly increasing rent or evicting tenants.

It's harder to buy a house. This city fought back by outbidding corporate landlords

A Cincinnati agency says large investors are taking some of the most affordable homes off the market, exacerbating the racial wealth gap. It's now helping its new tenants buy the homes themselves.

Kelly de Waard, quarterback for the Amsterdam Cats, gives her team a pre-game pep talk before facing off against the Rotterdam Ravens in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Sept. 27, 2020. This would be the only game of the season, which was canceled shortly afterward due to COVID-19.

For the love of the game: These were the athletes of the Queens Football League

By the middle of 2020, the Queens Football League had six teams: the Cats, Ravens, Blue Jays, Valkyries, Black Scorpions and Wolverines. Then the pandemic ground everything to a halt.

Women hang out in the pool and listen to Teri Collins tell them a story at Camp Roundup, a body positivity and acceptance camp for women that took place Labor Day weekend in Newark, Ohio.

A pro-fat camp for women? Sign me up.

Camp Roundup, a summer camp experience for fat women, was held for the first time this year in Newark, Ohio.

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