• Puerto Rico faces huge challenges in rebuilding and reinventing K-12 education

    Puerto Rico faces huge challenges in rebuilding and reinventing K-12 education

    Oct 27, 2017 06:16 PM EDT

    ... same school, or better. ... We can do it,” she said. Two of those meals from Bernardo Gonzalez Colon School went to Josh and Abdiel Rivera, brothers who were trying to keep up with English and math lessons while living in a classroom at Utuado’s Judith Avivas Elementary School. The ...

  • How Trombone Shorty is training the next generation of musicians in his hometown

    How Trombone Shorty is training the next generation of musicians in his hometown

    Oct 19, 2017 10:20 PM EDT

    ... Brown: But this is what you were telling me about when you were a kid. You would just run into people? Troy Andrews: That's right. That's right. We would just run in. Jeffrey Brown: And everybody's a musician. Troy Andrews: everybody's a musician, yes. Even though ...

  • South Sudan civil war causes Africa’s worst refugee crisis

    South Sudan civil war causes Africa’s worst refugee crisis

    Oct 15, 2017 08:56 PM EDT

    ... harrowing experience. She says four government soldiers from President Salva Kiir’s Dinka tribe stopped her as she was fleeing South Sudan and raped her right in front of her family. AGNES: (translated to English) When they started raping me, they told me not to raise alarm, otherwise they would ...

  • Battle to retake Raqqa inches toward conclusion

    Battle to retake Raqqa inches toward conclusion

    Oct 05, 2017 11:14 PM EDT

    ... Okab, said speed was the best defense against rocket-propelled grenades. He handled his Humvee with the skill of a rally driver. Okab lost two brothers to the Islamic State, one shot, one beheaded. The commander we meet is nicknamed Earthquake. For three weeks, his unit has laid siege to ...

  • San Juan mayor: Trump can attack me as long as it gets out the message that Puerto Ricans are hungry

    San Juan mayor: Trump can attack me as long as it gets out the message that Puerto Ricans are hungry

    Oct 04, 2017 11:22 PM EDT

    ... is a moral imperative to help us, to come to our aid. And, yes, this is a humanitarian crisis. The world can see it. Our brothers and sisters from unions see it. Our brothers and sisters from New York, from California, from Miami Beach, from Boston, from Chicago see it ...

  • U.S. Virgin Islands need help rebuilding hospitals ‘from the ground up’

    U.S. Virgin Islands need help rebuilding hospitals ‘from the ground up’

    Sep 28, 2017 10:32 PM EDT

    ... the lights on, and doing what we do after we have these damaging hurricanes. JUDY WOODRUFF: So, what would you say your greatest needs are right now? GOV. KENNETH MAPP: Infrastructure development, help in terms of building the power systems up, help in getting the road systems back up and ...

  • Agent Orange puts a new generation at risk in Vietnam

    Agent Orange puts a new generation at risk in Vietnam

    Sep 27, 2017 11:43 PM EDT

    ... s what we all did. MAN: If you're concerned about something, you do something out it. The way I do things is, you go right to the center of the problem and where it's happening. MIKE CERRE: Dick Hughes, the draft refuser, ended up in Vietnam that summer ...

  • President's criticisms spark more protests at NFL games

    President's criticisms spark more protests at NFL games

    Sep 24, 2017 08:26 PM EDT

    More than 130 National Football League players sat, knelt or raised their fists in defiance during early games on Sunday.

  • 5 overlooked stories that deserve your attention

    5 overlooked stories that deserve your attention

    Sep 07, 2017 04:16 AM EDT

    In the rush of coverage on how the president is navigating the Texas floods and North Korea threats, here are five important stories you may have missed.

  • Irresistible to tourists, has Venice become unwelcoming to its inhabitants?

    Irresistible to tourists, has Venice become unwelcoming to its inhabitants?

    Aug 30, 2017 12:50 AM EDT

    Venice has long been a city of trade and travelers, but Venetians now feel tourism is squeezing them out. The city is currently losing about 1,000 residents every year as the cost of housing rises and mass tourism poses a threat to food, culture and the Venetian way of life. Special correspondent Christopher Livesay reports...