Jun 08 Watch In Syrian Town, NPR Reporter Sees Blood-Soaked Carpets Friday morning brought a new barrage of shelling in the Syrian city of Homs. Also, U.N. monitors saw evidence of multiple killings in a small town where activists reported a massacre. They said they found flesh, blood and piles of… Continue watching
Jun 07 Watch New Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey ‘Explores the Human Struggles We All Face’ New Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey 'Explores the Human Struggles We All Face'… Continue watching
Jun 07 Watch Is Annan’s Peace Plan for Syria at a Dead End? "Syria cannot be peaceful, stable or certainly democratic until [President] Assad goes," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday, calling the latest near massacre "unconscionable." Ray Suarez and The Washington Post's Colum Lynch discuss the latest diplomatic maneuvering over… Continue watching
Jun 07 Natasha Trethewey Named U.S. Poet Laureate Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey will be the 19th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, the Library of Congress announced on Thursday. Continue reading
Jun 07 Watch In Syria, U.N. Observers Fired on Near Site of Alleged New Massacre U.N. observers in Syria said Thursday that they were blocked from accessing the scene of another alleged mass killing -- and even fired upon. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned the threat of civil war there is "imminent and real." Ray… Continue watching
May 29 Watch Canadian Ambassador: Syrian Massacre Is Another ‘Horrific Incident’ Canadian Ambassador: Syrian Massacre Is Another 'Horrific Incident'… Continue watching
May 28 Watch Were War Crimes Committed in Syria’s Houla? United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan arrived in Syria's capital Damascus Monday, condemning a weekend massacre that killed at least 108 people in the village of Houla. Ray Suarez and Alex Thomson of Independent Television News, reporting from Homs, discuss… Continue watching
May 28 Watch Syria’s U.N. Cease-fire in Shreds After Weekend Massacre In the aftermath of a weekend massacre in Syria, United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan arrived Monday in Damascus, condemning the "appalling crime." Heavy artillery and tank fire killed at least 108 in Houla, a collection of villages northwest of… Continue watching
May 18 Conversation: Kristen Dupard, 2012 Poetry Out Loud National Champion By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Kristen Dupard, the 2012 Poetry Out Loud National Champion. Continue reading
Mar 29 CDC: Diagnosis of Autism Rising in U.S. Autism rates in the United States have risen dramatically in recent years, jumping 23 percent between 2006 and 2008 and a full 78 percent between 2002 and 2008, according to new figures released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control… Continue reading