The Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday it will distribute $73 million to train public health workers from underrepresented communities and improve Covid-19 data collection.

The Department of Homeland Security will complete its investigation into the treatment of Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border “in days and not weeks,” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.

The numbers are crushing: By the end of April last year, less than half of the women in Brazil were employed, the lowest level in 30 years. In Australia, around the same time, nearly a tenth of women exited the workforce, while in Japan, women lost jobs at nearly twice the rate of men. In March, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris deemed the exodus a “national emergency,” with 3.5 million mothers of school-aged children in the country having left their jobs between March and April 2020.

Two Des Moines, Iowa, police officers aren’t entitled to qualified immunity for keeping a resident handcuffed for about five minutes after they frisked him and concluded he presented no safety concern, the Eighth Circuit ruled Tuesday in a civil rights suit.

Some environmental justice advocates are losing patience with White House efforts to launch a new screening tool that promises to pinpoint long-neglected and polluted communities, arguing that such vulnerable neighborhoods are well known.

Activision Blizzard Inc.said it was subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is investigating disclosures regarding workplace issues at the embattled video-game giant.