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A sanitary napkin pad. Menstrual products have been subject to an 18% sales tax in Pakistan, prompting protests. That tax will end when a new budget takes effect on July 1.
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Pakistan ends 'luxury tax' on menstrual products, contraceptives. Will prices drop?
Gabrielle Emanuel
In Pakistan, taxes on menstrual products can add up. Activists have long worked to change this. Now a new budget wipes out the 18% sales tax. But questions remain about the impact on prices.
For any problem in an incarcerated person's life — from not getting enough toilet paper to extreme physical abuse — the grievance system is the primary way to speak out. But in the vast majority of cases, those efforts go nowhere, according to an analysis of federal data by The Marshall Project and NPR.
Michelle Mildenberg Lara for The Marshall Project
'Rejected': How federal prisons stonewall grievances and deny care for years
Joseph Shapiro, Christie Thompson
In this picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency, residents fish from the shore as cargo and commercial vessels lie at anchor in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas on June 8.
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With Iran deal, Trump told ships to 'start your engines.' That's not happening yet
Tom Bowman
Josh Lee and Fernando Delgado hold a fake trophy outside the Biergarten in Los Angeles' Koreatown before the South Korea vs. Czech Republic World Cup game on June 11.
Karla Gachet for NPR
'Coreano Hermano': Ahead of Mexico vs. South Korea, it's all love between the fans
Juliana Kim
Texas Standard
Rural Texas counties trying to regulate data centers face legal threats
Some communities have made efforts to stop — or at least slow — the growth of data centers, but legal challenges from developers are making it an uphill battle.
Everything is bigger in Texas. ‘GIANT’ takes that to heart.
Today on Texas Standard: Rural Texas pushes back on data centers
Abbott issues disaster declaration for 101 Texas counties
Last year, a Corpus Christi cryptomine guzzled over 11 million gallons. Now, its water usage is being kept secret.
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