Apr 13 Morehouse College to begin taking transgender men next year By Errin Haines Whack, Associated Press Transgender men will be allowed to enroll in the school for the first time in 2020. Continue reading
Apr 13 Watch 9:38 The hunt is on for the last slave ship to arrive in the U.S. By Megan Thompson, Mori Rothman Archaeologists are analyzing data from a survey of Alabama’s Mobile River, looking for the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in America. The ship's survivors were enslaved for a few years before forming a unique community, Africatown. Clotilda… Continue watching
Apr 13 Watch 6:10 Broadway play reexamines the U.S. Constitution By Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green A new Broadway production, "What the Constitution Means to Me," is taking a fresh look at the founding document: what it says, who it serves and who it doesn’t. The play’s author and lead actor reexamines the rights laid out… Continue watching
Apr 13 Watch 1:50 Mobile's many shipwrecks help tell the area's long history By Megan Thompson, Mori Rothman During last year’s search in Alabama’s Mobile River for the Clotilda -- the last known slave ship to arrive in the U.S. -- archaeologists also gathered data on all kinds of other artifacts that shed light on the area's rich… Continue watching
Apr 13 How U.S. tax laws discriminate against women, gays and people of color By Anthony C. Infanti, The Conversation A country's tax policies say a lot about what it values – and some of America's tend to promote inequality. Continue reading
Apr 13 Giant Stratolaunch aircraft lifts off from California By John Antczak, Associated Press A giant six-engine aircraft with the world’s longest wingspan landed its first flight after some two hours in the air Saturday. Continue reading
Apr 13 Trump wields presidential power on pipeline, energy projects By Matthew Daly, Associated Press Eager to jump-start the stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline and other energy projects, President Donald Trump has acted to assert executive power over pipelines and such infrastructure. Continue reading
Apr 13 Top House Democrat steps up demand for Trump's tax returns By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press A top House Democrat on Saturday ratcheted up his demand for access to President Donald Trump's tax returns, telling the IRS that the law clearly gives Congress a right to them. The government's failure to respond by an April 23… Continue reading
Apr 13 Kim open to another summit with Trump, with conditions By Associated Press North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he is open to a third summit with President Donald Trump, but set the year's end as a deadline for Washington to offer mutually acceptable terms for an agreement to salvage the high-stakes… Continue reading
Apr 12 Watch 7:24 How the FCC is trying to pave the way for widespread 5G technology President Trump announced a series of moves Friday aimed at boosting development of a new frontier of high-speed mobile networks. Known as 5G, as in the fifth generation of cellular networks, the technology could eventually offer speeds up to 100… Continue watching