... staff coordinating their legal strategy with oil and gas industry executives and conservative advocacy groups funded by those profiting from fossil fuels, including the billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch. While serving as Oklahoma's elected state lawyer for the last six years, Pruitt sued federal agencies more than a ...
... marks the first encounter between the leaders of Christianity’s two largest churches since 1054, when the Eastern Orthodoxy split with Rome. “Finally! We are brothers,” the pope said as he embraced Kirill after their two-hour meeting in Cuba's Havana airport in February. World tiger count rises for ...
... this wasn't the Kitty Hawk powered flight moment. This was probably one of the glider tests that we're less familiar with that the Wright brothers did before that moment. It was an opportunity for them to test out their linear electric motor, which will help drive this capsule ...
... percent more likely to report having asthma during childhood. Those who suffered four traumatic events were 73 percent more likely to have asthma. DR. ROSALIND WRIGHT, Mount Sinai Health System: You can't ignore it anymore. The data is there that says psychological stress is a factor, just like these ...
ROBIN WRIGHT: Well, in the immediate aftermath of the protests in 2009, the government did arrest hundreds of -- well, thousands of people. And it put hundreds of them on trial in mass trials that were Stalinesque in their scope. And the -- it was a message clearly to the opposition leaders ...
... homeless. SPENCER MICHELS: Troynel and Eric Wright live in a two bedroom apartment, former military housing, in the Scotlandville section of Baton Rouge. And now brothers, cousins, nephews, nieces, mothers and in-laws have descended on them. TROYNEL WRIGHT: Pregnant girl, the grandmother. The children. My baby can't sleep ...
Artist Al Hirschfeld died Monday after a lifelong career drawing the stars of stage and screen. Ray Suarez speaks with a cultural writer for The New York Times and close friend of Hirschfeld.
Big media groups have continued to grow as the Federal Communications Commission and the courts roll back rules that once kept such companies from merging. What will this consolidation mean for consumers? Terence Smith reports.
Deanna Fei was thrilled when her daughter, born premature at 25 weeks, came home from the hospital. Then, her husband’s boss – the CEO of AOL – claimed he was trimming workers’ retirement benefits because the company had spent too much money on medical bills from “distressed babies.” William Brangham talks to Fei about the...
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