Mar 25 Photos: Yanukovych’s lavish digs came complete with guard lion By Morgan Till PBS NewsHour producer Morgan Till and chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner have been reporting from Ukraine for the last week and a half. They have been in Crimea where voters decided to secede and join Russia, Donetsk in eastern Ukraine… Continue reading
Mar 21 20 photos that define ‘American Cool’ By Colleen Shalby The question "what is cool?" remains a topic of debate, a generational point of contention. But for Frank Goodyear and Joel Dinerstein, it’s the question "who is cool?" that takes center stage in the "American Cool" exhibit they curated for… Continue reading
Jan 27 One Filipino town’s risky search for gold By Larry C. Price In the Philippines, people desperate to make a living dive into muddy waters in makeshift mines in search of gold. Continue reading
Jan 24 Top 10 places in the U.S. where children go hungry By Ellen Rolfes Seventeen million of the 50 million people in the U.S. living in food insecure households are children. These are the top 10 counties and metropolitan areas where food insecurity is most rampant for those under the age of 18. Continue reading
Jan 06 Keeping Asian carp out of the Great Lakes will cost billions and take decades By News Desk [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_D-qHOB2tY] The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a study Monday on how best to keep the invasive species Asian carp from overwhelming the Great Lakes and threatening the area's multi-billion dollar fishing industry. Ash-har Quraishi of WTTW Chicago… Continue reading
Dec 30 New Year’s Eve traditions take local twists with unique ball drops By Ellen Rolfes Every year as the clock nears midnight on Dec. 31, the eyes of the world turn to the dazzling lights and bustling energy of Times Square. But Americans in other cities have adapted the tradition with a local spin, dropping… Continue reading
Dec 24 In Photos: Fewer Monarch butterflies are becoming ‘snowbirds’ By Larisa Epatko First, it was disappearing bees. Now, it appears that Monarch butterflies are suffering a decline. Continue reading
Dec 24 Monarch butterflies flutter around the globe By Larisa Epatko Monarch butterflies are known to flit and float across North America, but they live on other continents as well. Take a look at this regal butterfly from around the world in our slideshow. Continue reading
Nov 22 Narnia through the Ages: ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ covers By Victoria Fleischer In October of 1950, the first of seven fantasy novels in the Narnia series was published. C.S. Lewis has since influenced and affected generations of readers and writers. As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of Lewis's death, we take a… Continue reading
Nov 14 JFK November 22, 1963: A Bystander’s View of History By Kristin Miller A selection of images from the exhibitions JFK November 22, 1963: A Bystander’s View of History (at the International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, October 4, 2013 –January 19, 2014). Continue reading