Sep 17 Life at the 'Top of the World' By Mike Fritz At 330 miles above the Arctic Circle, life has never been easy for those brave enough to call Barrow home. The population currently hovers around 5,000 and about half of the residents are native Inupiat Eskimo, indigenous people who have… Continue reading
Sep 17 What happens when kids aren't allowed to play with toy guns? Photo by flickr user woodleywonderworks When Jonathan Gourlay was a kid, he was jealous of the boy across the alley who had a "toy arsenal" of grenades, machine guns and a western-style cap gun. But Gourlay wasn't… Continue reading
Sep 17 Census reports median household income, poverty level steady in 2012 Dominick Aldridga (8) stands with members of his family at a distribution point by the Food Bank of the Southern Tier Mobile Food Pantry on June 19, 2012 in Deposit, New York. Spencer Platt/Getty Images. The U.S. Census Bureau… Continue reading
Sep 17 ASK #seachange reporter Craig Welch anything at noon .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } On Monday, PBS NewsHour aired… Continue reading
Sep 17 Iran restores Facebook and Twitter blocks after "technical glitch" On Monday, Facebook and Twitter were accessible in Iran for the first time in four years. One day later, Iran restored the social media blocks and said the short-lived access was due to "technical glitches." According to the Associated… Continue reading
Sep 17 Muslim Brotherhood's foreign media spokesman arrested The Egyptian government is keeping up the pressure on supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. Another top Muslim Brotherhood official has been taken into custody, according to The New York Times' bureau chief in Cairo. Gehad El-Haddad, foreign… Continue reading
Sep 17 VIDEO: Artillery shells fall close to Damascus AP VIDEO: Shelling close to Syria's capital: http://t.co/Qq3hDzBbcR -AB— The Associated Press (@AP) September 17, 2013… Continue reading
Sep 17 UPDATED: Newtown Action Alliance heads to Washington to lobby Congress The Newtown Action Alliance, a group of Newtown, CT parents formed after the Sandy Hook School shooting, are once again headed to Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress for stricter gun control. According to The Hartford Courant, the trip was… Continue reading
Sep 17 Secretary Hagel lays wreath in honor of Navy Yard shooting victims .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }… Continue reading
Sep 17 Israel wants Syria's Assad "gone" Getty Images Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren said in an exit interview with the Jerusalem Post that Israel has wanted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to leave office since the start of the country's civil war. "The… Continue reading