• '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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Mark Twain's weird but perfect ending

    Mark Twain's weird but perfect ending

    Apr 21, 2022 09:49 PM EST

    ... story endings I've ever heard. The night Clemens was born, on Nov. 30, 1835, there was a brilliant view of Halley's Comet flying right over his hometown of Florida, Missouri -- a sign of the bright talent he'd bring to the world. He grew up in the hamlet ...

  • Bosnia became independent 30 years ago, but divisions in the region remain

    Bosnia became independent 30 years ago, but divisions in the region remain

    Mar 26, 2022 08:13 PM EST

    Kira Kay:  The war began when most of the Serb community refused to be forced into the new country of Bosnia. while there were war crimes on all sides, 80 percent of the estimated 100,000 people killed were Muslim Bosniaks.  Kemal Pervanić: Where we are standing right now, used ...

  • Dolly Parton declines Rock Hall of Fame nomination

    Dolly Parton declines Rock Hall of Fame nomination

    Mar 14, 2022 05:54 PM EST

    Dolly Parton has announced she is pulling out of this year’s nominations for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, saying she hasn't “earned that right.” The music icon who has been elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame explained her decision in a statement posted on her ...

  • Russia strikes near Ukrainian capital; port city under siege

    Russia strikes near Ukrainian capital; port city under siege

    Mar 12, 2022 10:45 PM EST

    ... Kremlin likely expected. “The fact that the whole Ukrainian people resist these invaders has already gone down in history, but we do not have the right to let up our defense, no matter how difficult it may be,” he said. Later Saturday, Zelenskyy reported that 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers had ...