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E-bikes are a common sight among New York’s immigrant delivery workers, many of whom consider the electric powered bicycles to be a job necessity. The problem is that e-bikes are illegal to operate in the city. Without their e-bikes, the delivery workers — mostly Chinese immigrant workers in their 50s and 60s — feel they have few other job options.

The email version of snail mail is about to land in your inbox. You can now receive a virtual image of your mail before the paper mail is delivered to your mailbox. This ‘Informed Delivery’ is one way the United States Postal Service is trying to stay competitive in an increasingly digital world. The augmented technology also allows you to interact with junk mail.

VIDEO EXPLAINER: Did you know that Valentine’s Day is a variation of a pagan fertility festival where single men and women were paired up? Or that the Catholic Church is responsible for naming it Saint Valentine’s Day? Neither did we. Here’s what else we learned about Valentine’s Day.

VIDEO: The Unforgotten. Baltimore has seen a surge of murders in the past few years. Even though Amy Berbert never met any of the victims, she can’t forget them. That’s why she goes back to the scene of each murder, one year later, at the exact time the killing occurred, and snaps a picture in hopes of making sure people don’t forget the stains on the sidewalk.

Resentment toward the ‘migrant invasion’ is the key issue on the minds of Italian voters two weeks ahead of parliamentary elections. The leader of the anti-immigrant League Party has condemned immigrants for bringing ‘chaos, anger, drug dealing, thefts, rapes and violence’ to Italy. VOA is in Rome where both migrants and Italians express frustration with the way things are.

Native Americans were forced to abandon their traditional diet once the US Army slaughtered buffalo to near extinction. Tribes ate government rations of flour, oil and coffee, which were gradually replaced by processed, packaged foods. Today, obesity, diabetes and heart disease are rampant on the Pine Ridge Reservation, which has the lowest life expectancy in the nation. Lakota tribal member Charles “Bamm” Brewer believes the solution lies in returning to a traditional diet of wild fruits and vegetables — and, of course, buffalo.