• Column: When will the candidates pay attention to the biggest environmental issue facing America?

    Column: When will the candidates pay attention to the biggest environmental issue facing America?

    Jul 27, 2016 03:26 PM EDT

    ... fired power plants would still need to be added each year, only outfitted with technology to capture and store the CO2 that would otherwise invisibly billow out the smokestack to add to the ever thickening blanket in our shared sky. Don’t like nuclear or wind farms? Then build more ...

  • Trump the leader of the free world? Two GOP perspectives

    Trump the leader of the free world? Two GOP perspectives

    May 05, 2016 11:41 PM EDT

    ... came out to vote in the past. He's going to have -- when the primary is over, he's going to have more votes from the Republicans than any other presidential primary candidate in the history of this country.  He's built a $10 billion business by surrounding him with ...

  • Can students improve financial management with help from peers?

    Can students improve financial management with help from peers?

    Apr 26, 2016 09:29 PM EDT

    ... In a presentation accompanied by slides and video, the two began by asking their audience to build a foundation for thinking about money by considering the difference between what they want and what they need. Rodríguez talked about the “neurological effects of shopping.” To get the point across, he asked ...

  • Why the Peshmerga, key ally against ISIS, are broke

    Why the Peshmerga, key ally against ISIS, are broke

    Apr 04, 2016 11:48 PM EDT

    ... whose construction company has a contract to build a Kempinski Hotel, business has been affected by ISIS. RIZGAR KADIR, Businessman: When ISIS started -- took over the Mosul, some Indian workers has been kidnapped by them. The Indian government decided to take back all the employees. They opened an office in ...

  • Trump-Cruz rivalry intensifies in rollicking GOP debate

    Trump-Cruz rivalry intensifies in rollicking GOP debate

    Jan 15, 2016 03:55 PM EDT

    ... S. to build the necessary bridges with Arab nations to defeat the Islamic State. "All Muslims? Seriously? What kind of signal does that send to the rest of the world?" Bush said. "What we need to do is destroy ISIS. The other Arab countries have a role to play in ...

  • California to increase addiction treatment for Medicaid recipients

    California to increase addiction treatment for Medicaid recipients

    Dec 14, 2015 05:16 PM EDT

    ... treatment system for low-income people, embarking on a massive experiment to create a smoother path for addicts from detox through recovery. The state is the first to receive federal permission to revamp drug and alcohol treatment for beneficiaries of Medicaid, known as Medi-Cal in California. Through what’s ...

  • News Wrap: Thousands bussed from Croatia to Austria

    News Wrap: Thousands bussed from Croatia to Austria

    Sep 22, 2015 12:31 AM EDT

    In our news wrap Monday, migrants and refugees continued to pour into Europe, but their transit has become more orderly and regulated. Also, more than 50 people were killed and hundreds injured in bombings in Nigeria over night.

  • When Louisiana lost its foster children

    When Louisiana lost its foster children

    Aug 29, 2015 01:09 PM EDT

    Hurricane Katrina scattered thousands of Gulf Coast children nationwide. A decade later, are children in foster care safer in the event of a disaster?

  • The secrets behind the Big Easy's comeback from Katrina

    The secrets behind the Big Easy's comeback from Katrina

    Aug 28, 2015 04:00 PM EDT

    Ten years later, New Orleans provides revealing lessons on the role business and economics did and — and didn’t — play in the city’s now notably vigorous recovery.

  • Puerto Rico debt crisis drives exodus to U.S.

    Puerto Rico debt crisis drives exodus to U.S.

    Aug 13, 2015 11:19 PM EDT

    New austerity measures are imposing more economic pain on U.S. territory Puerto Rico, which already has a poverty rate almost double that of America's poorest state. In turn, many are deciding to leave the island for better opportunity and pay in the states. Special correspondent Chris Bury reports.