Highlights from the week’s news.

• North Carolina activists fighting the right wing agenda of their state government pledge to continue their Moral Monday protests on June 3.

• Car wash workers approve their first union contract in New York City.

• The Austin American Statesman investigates the suicides of prisoners in solitary confinement.

• “Kabul CSI” sifts through evidence to identify victims of torture in Afghanistan.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]