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FILE — Pro-union pins sit on a table during a watch party for Starbucks' employees union election, Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. It’s become a common sight: jubilant Starbucks workers celebrating after successful votes to unionize at dozens of U.S. stores. But when the celebrations die down, a daunting hurdle remains. To win the changes they seek, like better pay and more reliable schedules, unionized stores must sit down with Starbucks and negotiate a contract. It’s a painstaking process that can take years. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)

Starbucks union says the coffee giant is closing a store to retaliate

Starbucks gave the employees at the College Ave. location in Ithaca, N.Y., a one-week notice of the closure, the union says, with the store slated to permanently close on June 10.

A storefront window with bullet holes is seen at the scene of a fatal overnight shooting on South Street in Philadelphia, Sunday, June 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Perez)

Mass shootings across the U.S. leave dozens killed or wounded this weekend

Shootings in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Arizona were among the incidents across eight states over the weekend.

KYIV, UKRAINE - JUNE 05: Firefighters continue to dampen down a rail freight rolling stock repair facility in Darnytsia district after a Russian air strikeon June 05, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Four Russian air missiles hit the site early this morning with a fifth rocket landing in woodland close by. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Russia bombed a railcar repair facility in Kyiv

It was the first Russian bombing of Kyiv in more than a month. Russia said it was targeting tanks, but NPR saw no evidence of any weapons at the scene.

Cuban activists applaud U.S. decision to exclude Cuba from Summit of the Americas

The Biden administration declined to invite Cuba to this week's Summit of the Americas. Free speech advocates point to a crackdown in Cuba that heightens surveillance and stifles dissent.

Uruguay midfielder Fernando Gorriaran (10) and USA defender Joe Scally (29) chase the ball during the first half of an international friendly soccer match Sunday, June 5, 2022, in Kansas City, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

The U.S. men's national soccer team wore orange armbands in support of gun control

The team also sent a letter to Congress urging members to vote for stricter gun legislation in the aftermath of several recent mass shootings across the nation.

Inspired by the Sixers, basketball star Dawn Staley forged her own path on the court

Staley's won Olympic gold medals as a player and as a head coach. She played in the WNBA, and is now head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks women's team, which won the NCAA championship in 2022.

FILE - This photo shows the gurney in the the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla., on Oct. 9, 2014. A federal judge in Oklahoma on Monday, June 6, 2022, ruled the state's three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, paving the way for the state to request execution dates for more than two dozen death row inmates who were plaintiffs in the case. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

A federal judge rules Oklahoma's lethal injection method is constitutional

In a federal trial earlier this year, attorneys for 28 death row inmates argued the method could violate the amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.

A mother is arrested after police say her 2-year-old shot her husband

Investigators had initially suspected a death by suicide in the east Orlando, Fla., case. Then a five-year-old said his brother had shot his dad.

This experimental drug could change the field of cancer research

A small trial using the drug dostarlimab yielded an unprecedented success rate in eliminating tumors.

FILE - Marine Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 20, 2012. A former ambassador facing charges of illegal lobbying on behalf of Qatar has pushed federal prosecutors to explain why Allen, who worked with him on the effort. Allen is currently the president of the influential Brookings Institution think tank. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FBI seizes retired general's data related to Qatar lobbying

The seizure of data from the former leader of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan is part of a probe that has ensnared a former ambassador who pleaded guilty to charges of illegal foreign lobbying.

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