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First prize went to this image of a porter in Kolkata. Photographer Tom Price took the image, then created a different backdrop: an empty, unidentified landscape emphasizing the loneliness of the migrant worker.

PHOTO WINNERS: We All Carry A Heavy Load But Let's Not Forget Moments Of Joy

The winning images in the All About Photos contest answer the question: What's in "Your Mind's Eye"? And also: What can you carry on your head?

A New Nevada Law Bans Racial Mascots In Schools And 'Sundown Sirens'

The measure prohibits racially discriminatory mascots, images, sounds or songs in schools. And counties can no longer sound sirens that once signified it was time for certain people to leave town.

Vice President Harris waves before boarding Air Force Two for Guatemala. The plane had to return to Joint Base Andrews shortly after takeoff because of what a Harris aide called "technical issues."

Here's What Harris Will Do On Her 1st VP Trip To Guatemala And Mexico

The vice president will meet with the leaders of Guatemala and Mexico to talk about corruption, violence and poverty — factors causing thousands of Central Americans to seek asylum at the U.S. border.

A pedestrian walks by a "Now Hiring" sign outside of a Lamps Plus store in San Francisco on on June 3. Four states, including Mississippi, are moving to end an extra $300-a-week unemployment benefit, arguing the pay is discouraging people from finding work.

These Four States Are Cutting A Key Lifeline For The Unemployed

Mississippi, Missouri, Alaska and Iowa are ending the extra $300-a-week unemployment benefit provided as part of COVID-19 relief in a controversial bid to get people back to work.

In this 2009 photo, Stephen Cox (left), Mike Forte (center), and Maria Gallo (right), all medical students then, were busy studying a cadaver in the lab at Rocky Vista University's Parker, Colo., campus. Rocky Vista, a for-profit institution, last month received the green light for an accredited satellite campus in Billings, Mont.

Once Banned, For-Profit Medical Schools Are On The Rise Again In The U.S.

Montana is one of only four states without a medical school, and two groups with different financial models hope to remedy that. One plans a for-profit school, but critics say students may suffer.

A new federal rule requires hospitals and other high-risk health care settings to implement COVID-19 safety measures, including providing personal protective equipment to workers, ensuring proper ventilation and giving workers paid time off to get vaccinated.

Federal COVID Workplace Safety Rules Are Here. But Only For Health Care Workers

The Biden administration has issued an emergency rule that requires health care employers to take steps to protect their workers from COVID-19.

The Houston Methodist hospital system says 178 employees now have until June 21 to complete their COVID-19 vaccinations, or they could be fired. Most of the system's roughly 26,000 employees have complied with the requirement.

The Clock's Ticking For 178 Hospital Workers Suspended For Not Getting Vaccinated

Employees at Houston Methodist who are unwilling to get the shot say the vaccines are unsafe and even "experimental." The hospital system's CEO says they're spouting "anti-vaccination rhetoric."

Ivan Medvesek stands in front of one of 21 dioramas in his Froggyland museum. On display is the work of Ferenc Mere, a Hungarian taxidermist who created these exhibits more than a century ago. Medvesek's parents purchased the displays after they were left behind in an attic in what is now Serbia in 1970. After losing revenue in the pandemic, Medvesek says he's selling Froggyland to U.S. investors.

Welcome To Froggyland, The Croatian Taxidermy Museum That May Soon Come To The U.S.

The museum features the work of a Hungarian taxidermist who created anthropomorphized exhibits. It had 50,000 visitors in 2019, but numbers fell during the pandemic and the owner now plans to sell.

Cases, deaths and hospitalizations have dropped dramatically in the U.S. since the winter peak when tens of thousands tested positive daily, so many states have slowed the frequency of their reporting on COVID data.

States Scale Back Pandemic Reporting, Stirring Alarm

More than two dozen states have reduced how frequently they report what's happening with the pandemic, raising alarm among some public health experts.

Poverty and disability are linked to lower vaccination rates in some rural communities. The Vaccination Transportation Initiative sponsored van helps rural residents get the COVID-19 vaccine in rural Mississippi. The effort works to overcome the lack of transportation and access to technology for rural residents.

Rural Communities Fall Further Behind In COVID-19 Vaccination Rates

Cities are leaving rural areas behind in the race to vaccinate against COVID-19, but some states' suburbs are struggling, too. To close the gap experts say, outreach needs to be hyperlocal.

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