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A 24-year-old law student from North Macedonia who worked as a restaurant server at Aspen Meadows Resort last summer as part of the J-1 visa program has received about $17,000 in unpaid tips, wages and penalty fees from her former employer after filing a state wage complaint last year. The Colorado labor department confirmed it’s still investigating a second wage complaint, and closed another unequal pay claim due to understaffing and other factors.
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On today's newscast: Pitkin County airport officials are confident that the redevelopment of the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport will go as planned; the Colorado River is officially infested with zebra mussels, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife; and while U.S. is in the process of updating hundreds of nuclear missiles, the work is years behind schedule. Tune in for these stories and more.
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Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe Yale Humanitarian Research Lab says Russia's network of sites for Ukrainian children is larger than previously thought, and programs includes military training for children as young as 8. -
Jose Luis Magana/APThe Department of Justice is escalating its demands for sensitive data from voting officials, suing two Democratic-controlled states who have thus far rebuffed the department's requests. -
Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesSusan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.
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The legendary actor died Tuesday at 89. "I wasn't learning the way I was supposed to learn ..." he explained in 2013. "I realized that my education was going to happen when I got out in the world." -
Trump on Monday said he planned to send National Guard troops to Memphis. The news gives fresh relevance to NPR's recent interview with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who declined to ask for the military. -
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Most Jewish Americans disapprove of the Trump administration withholding funds from colleges to address anti-Jewish sentiment, according to a new survey. -
The coming months will bring new seasons of Stranger Things and Slow Horses, a mysterious new science fiction series from Apple TV+, and a new Ken Burns documentary about the American Revolution. -
A German national under investigation in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann 18 years ago was freed from prison Wednesday after serving a sentence in an unrelated case, police said.
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