• A 'forgotten tragedy' at a New Orleans gay bar and a new effort to honor victims’ remains

    A 'forgotten tragedy' at a New Orleans gay bar and a new effort to honor victims’ remains

    Aug 18, 2022 08:29 PM EDT

    ... the potter's field between 2015 and 2018. “The last time I went out there, it was horrific. They never cut the grass; it's right next to a trash heap. There's a bunch of abandoned portalets and a lot of illegal dumping. I wouldn't feel comfortable burying ...

  • Sri Lankan police impose curfew ahead of planned protest

    Sri Lankan police impose curfew ahead of planned protest

    Jul 08, 2022 06:19 PM EDT

    ... of protests have nearly dismantled the Rajapaksa political dynasty that has ruled Sri Lanka for most of the past two decades. One of Rajapaksa’s brothers resigned as prime minister last month, and two other brothers and a nephew quit their Cabinet posts earlier. President Rajapaksa has admitted he did ...

  • Supreme Court's EPA ruling raises climate change concerns

    Supreme Court's EPA ruling raises climate change concerns

    Jul 05, 2022 10:40 PM EDT

    ... $550 billion that's sitting right now on Capitol Hill. We need Senator Manchin and Senator Sinema and the Biden administration and all the Republican brothers and sisters to come together and do the right thing and make sure that we are actually -- have a just transition, that we are ...

  • WATCH: Candlelight vigil held for Uvalde school shooting victims

    WATCH: Candlelight vigil held for Uvalde school shooting victims

    May 25, 2022 10:46 PM EDT

    WATCH: ‘We know we have a crisis,’ advocate says after Texas mass shooting “He was just a loving ... little boy, just enjoying life, not knowing that this tragedy was going to happen,” she said. “He was very bubbly, loved to dance with his brothers, his mom. This has just taken ...

  • 'The sweetest little boy.' Families mourn, await news after Texas school shooting

    'The sweetest little boy.' Families mourn, await news after Texas school shooting

    May 25, 2022 02:42 PM EDT

    ... boy, just enjoying life, not knowing that this tragedy was going to happen today," she said. "He was very bubbly, loved to dance with his brothers, his mom. This has just taken a toll on all of us." She also lamented what she described as lax gun laws. "We should ...

  • Young playwrights use the theater to confront the trauma of gun violence

    Young playwrights use the theater to confront the trauma of gun violence

    May 16, 2022 10:30 PM EDT

    Person: I ain't got nothing. Person: Three! Person: All right, chill. Look, the money... Jeffrey Brown: In Tempe, Arizona, a performance about a boy who witnesses his older brother's murder and weighs whether to take revenge. One of the student actors, Byron Roberson Jr. Byron Roberson Jr., Actor ...

  • 'A Strange Loop' leads Tony award nominations

    'A Strange Loop' leads Tony award nominations

    May 09, 2022 05:47 PM EDT

    ... morning: Her book for the Michael Jackson musical “MJ" was nominated for best book and her play “Clyde’s” got a nod for best play. Right behind “A Strange Loop” is a tie with 10 nominations each for "MJ,” a bio musical of the King of Pop stuffed with his ...

  • Anti-abortion and abortion rights advocates reckon with a potential Roe v. Wade reversal

    Anti-abortion and abortion rights advocates reckon with a potential Roe v. Wade reversal

    May 04, 2022 10:30 PM EDT

    Michele Goodwin, Author, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood": You are absolutely right. It is Black and brown women and people who are economically vulnerable who will suffer the grave consequences of what potentially could come from the Supreme Court. But it's also people who ...

  • Dolly Parton, Eminem among artists inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

    Dolly Parton, Eminem among artists inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

    May 04, 2022 04:24 PM EDT

    ... to “respectfully bow out” of the process, saying she did not want to take votes away from the remaining nominees and had not “earned that right.” The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation responded by saying ballots had already been sent and it was up to the voters to ...

  • Ukrainians brave Russian shelling to restore power

    Ukrainians brave Russian shelling to restore power

    Apr 28, 2022 10:50 PM EDT

    ... the control room just told us that electricity to the entire town has been cut. The engineers start packing up their gear, a band of brothers heading out, not to fight, but to fix the fighting's damage. On this day, the shelling is too severe for them to travel ...