World Aug 22 American service members thwart attack on high-speed rail in France Two American servicemen were among the passengers who overpowered an armed attacker on a Thalys high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday, averting what officials said was an attempted terrorist attack.
Nation Aug 01 Trooper who arrested Sandra Bland was disciplined in 2014 The Texas trooper who arrested Sandra Bland had been warned about "unprofessional conduct" in 2014, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press.
Nation Jul 19 In deposition obtained by NYT, Cosby admits to giving drugs to women In a decade-old deposition, actor Bill Cosby admitted to using his status as a famous comedian as well as drugs in order to have sex with women, the New York Times reported Saturday.
World Jul 18 How U.S. regulation may keep remittances from some Somali families According to community leaders in Minneapolis-St. Paul, 80 percent of the Somali-Americans there send money back to East Africa. Aid groups say 40 percent of Somalia’s population relies on those dollars -- known as remittances -- to survive. But recently,…
Nation Jun 20 Website emerges with photos of accused Charleston shooter, manifesto A white supremacist website containing an unsigned manifesto as well as photographs of accused Charleston gunman Dylann Roof surfaced across social media on Saturday.
Nation May 17 ‘Mother of Lamaze’ Elisabeth Bing dies at 100 Elisabeth Bing, the natural childbirth pioneer who co-founded Lamaze International died on Friday in her New York home. She was 100.
Arts May 08 ‘Just me and Allah’: Photographer seeks to capture diversity of Islam Photographer and editor Samra Habib's work is chronicled on the Tumblr, "Just me and Allah" and is being showcased at an exhibit this weekend at the Brooklyn Community Pride Center in New York City.
Nation May 02 Life in Freddie Gray’s childhood neighborhood by the numbers On NewsHour Weekend Saturday, we bring you “Sandtown by the Numbers,” a special series of reports on life in Sandtown-Winchester, the impoverished Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray grew up and was arrested on April 12.
Nation Apr 05 Review calls disputed Rolling Stone campus rape story case of ‘journalistic failure’ An independent review of a Rolling Stone article about the alleged gang rape of a University of Virginia student has found the magazine failed in the “reporting, editing, editorial supervision and fact-checking” of the now-discredited story.
Nation Apr 04 ‘Revenge porn’ site operator sentenced to 18 years for identity theft, extortion A San Diego judge has sentenced 28-year-old Kevin Bollaert to 18 years in prison for running a "revenge porn" website that featured explicit photographs and included identifying information such as links to the victims' social media accounts.