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Democratic mayoral candidate Gail Riecken is calling for upgrades of Evansville’s mass transit system.Riecken says if she’s elected, she’ll work to make…

A thousand delegates begin a conference in Baghdad to choose an interim national assembly. The proceedings were disrupted when insurgents fired mortar shells that hit a bus station near the meeting hall, killing two people. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden and NPR's Ivan Watson.

The northern regional capital has become a frequent target of Russian drones, missiles and guided bombs. Now, Ukraine's top general says at least 50,000 Russian troops have massed across the border.

Deadly attacks sweep across Baghdad, killing at least 40 people Tuesday. That includes 20 soldiers whose bus was blown up by a roadside bomb, and 14 people killed by a car bomb in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood. North of Baghdad, in the town of Muqdadyia, a car bomb exploded in front of a hospital, killing at least seven people.

In a case that grabbed international attention, a 23-year-old Indian woman died last year after she was brutally raped aboard a moving bus in New Delhi.

Louisiana is paying tribute Friday to the Rev. T.J. Jemison, a strong and steady voice against unequal treatment for blacks in the Jim Crow South. Jemison helped organize a bus boycott in Baton Rouge in 1953 and later advised Martin Luther King Jr. and others on how to orchestrate the Montgomery boycott.

Rape is a problem throughout India, and a particularly brutal attack on a Delhi bus has sparked street protests and condemnation by members of Parliament. The victim, a 23-year-old woman, is battling for her life.

Quant made playful clothes for young modern women they could wear to work and "run to the bus in." Her London shop was an epicenter of youth culture that popularized hot pants and miniskirts.

In a big, new COVID-19-era survey, more than half of all educators and school personnel reported being victimized at work.

The United Nations says 22 children were killed in an airstrike and puts the blame on the Saudi-led forces intervening in the civil war.