• WATCH: George Floyd, whose death energized a movement, laid to rest in Houston

    WATCH: George Floyd, whose death energized a movement, laid to rest in Houston

    Jun 09, 2020 03:50 PM EDT

    “So much for social distancing today,” the Rev. Remus Wright told mourners, gently but firmly instructing those attending to wear face fasks. With the funeral inside the church still underway, hundreds of people lined the route to the cemetery. Many said they had arrived hours ahead to secure a ...

  • South Korea maintains Kim Jong Un health rumors are untrue

    South Korea maintains Kim Jong Un health rumors are untrue

    Apr 27, 2020 03:30 PM EDT

    ... s east coast since last week. “The train’s presence does not prove the whereabouts of the North Korean leader or indicate anything about his health, but it does lend weight to reports that Kim is staying at an elite area on the country’s eastern coast,” 38 North said.

  • What should happen to thousands of foreign ISIS fighters?

    What should happen to thousands of foreign ISIS fighters?

    Feb 15, 2019 11:30 PM EDT

    ... state detained by American allies? Here now, our Nick Schifrin. Nick Schifrin: They escape with only what they can carry, and their children carry the weight of war. Entire families are winding their way out of ISIS' final stronghold. Syria's been at war longer than these children have been ...

  • When you turn 29, 'metamorphosis is not optional,' this poet says

    When you turn 29, 'metamorphosis is not optional,' this poet says

    Feb 08, 2019 08:14 PM EDT

    ... heartache? We tow it.” At age 29, she says she began to wonder: What do we carry across generations? Specifically, she thought about how the weight of womanhood shifts throughout our lives. In “Nineteen in Retrograde,” she explores her teenage self, first love and the sudden sexualization of the female ...

  • Inside the Saudi kingdom, under global pressure

    Inside the Saudi kingdom, under global pressure

    Oct 31, 2018 10:35 PM EDT

    Robin Wright: I think there is, but Mohammed bin Salman has also consolidated power as no one before him ever managed to do, except for the founder. He took over the intelligence and military apparatus. He's head of the economic council. He's head of the royal court. And ...

  • Why defendants plead guilty to crimes they didn’t commit

    Why defendants plead guilty to crimes they didn’t commit

    May 30, 2018 10:35 PM EDT

    ... be fairly characterized as hell, you wouldn't trade $20 million for what happened to him. John Yang: The story might have ended here, both brothers reunited with their families, Juan spending time with his daughter and grandsons, healing through therapy, help Henry declines. Juan Johnson: Everyone knows that I ...

  • Ahead of midterms, politicians try to woo Puerto Ricans who fled storm

    Ahead of midterms, politicians try to woo Puerto Ricans who fled storm

    Apr 30, 2018 02:16 PM EDT

    ... state. Their single representative in the House of Representatives has only limited voting power and they have no senators. But their votes have the same weight as other Americans when they move to the mainland, as hundreds of thousands have done over the past decade, first because of a deep ...

  • Decades later, Bosnia still struggling with the aftermath of war

    Decades later, Bosnia still struggling with the aftermath of war

    Nov 19, 2017 07:34 PM EDT

    ... any more. MALCOLM BRABANT: After the war, Garbo married Enisa, the sister of his dead friend. ENISA GARBO, SISTER OF BOSNIAN SOLDIER: Another of my brothers was killed and he took his last breath in my arms. I was just nine-years-old. MALCOLM BRABANT: Today, the Garbos live in ...

  • How a serious illness gave Eugene O’Neill his dark literary power

    How a serious illness gave Eugene O’Neill his dark literary power

    Oct 16, 2017 07:47 PM EDT

    ... Gaylord for five months a year earlier, but because her mother was dead and she was the principal caregiver for her nine younger sisters and brothers, she was prematurely discharged. When Eugene met her in March of 1913, Kitty was 23 and seriously ill with a TB relapse. O’Neill ...

  • Erie longs for its manufacturing past, but what’s the future?

    Erie longs for its manufacturing past, but what’s the future?

    Feb 23, 2017 12:14 AM EDT

    ... a coal miner, worked his butt off. They moved up here when I was 1 years-old to go to work at G.E. My brothers and my nephews, they all worked at G.E. They wanted me to go down to G.E., but I said, I like this ...