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Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame of Ghana is the new chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities — the first African woman in that post. Asked to define disability, she says: "It is not the presence of the impairment, but it is the social and attitudinal barriers that are hindering our performance." Ernest Ankomah for NPR hide caption
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Käärijä, representing Finland, rehearses for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool. Anthony Devlin/Getty Images hide caption
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Luis Suárez, a 37-year-old from Venezuela, was repeatedly timed out of the CBP One app, days after officials announced major upgrades. He has been unable to schedule an appointment on the platform for about six months, he said. Joel Rose/NPR hide caption
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A sign advertises Yeezy shoes made by Adidas at a store in Paramus, N.J., on Oct. 25, 2022. After cutting ties with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, Adidas now plans to sell its stock of unsold Yeezy shoes and donate the proceeds to charity. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Josie, 16, moved to Rhode Island in April to flee policies in Florida that restrict transgender rights. Her parents can't go with her yet, so she'll live with an aunt and uncle until she finishes high school. Stephanie Colombini/WUSF hide caption
As conservative states target trans rights, a Florida teen flees for a better life
Law enforcement officials in the Cleveland, Texas, neighborhood where a man allegedly shot five of his neighbors after they asked him to stop firing off rounds in his yard. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption
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Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy wants to save Social Security. Will Washington let him?
People standing near a Ukrainian national flag watch as dark smoke billows following an air strike in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, on March 26, 2022. Aleksey Filippov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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The U.S. is moving to ease restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men and other groups that traditionally face higher risks of HIV. Here, tubes direct blood from a donor into a bag in Davenport, Iowa, on Friday, Nov. 11, 2022. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption
Cobbler James Wallace Sears has spent decades fixing the shoes of lawyers, consultants and financial advisers who work in nearby corporate towers. With so many of them still working from home, he's not sure his business will survive. Arezou Rezvani/NPR hide caption
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