Jul 28 Historic Flooding, Landslides Kill at Least 49 in South Korea By News Desk South Korean soldiers remove tons of mud after a flood caused by heavy rains hit the area around an apartment complex in Seoul on Thursday. Photo by Park Ji-Hwan/AFP/Getty Images. Unrelenting rain pounding Seoul, South Korea, and the southern part… Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch Somalis Flee to Kenya in Search of Food, Water, Aid On Kenya-Somalia Border, a Desperate Scene for Famine Victims… Continue watching
Jul 22 Pentagon Set to End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ Eastern U.S. Faces Excessive Heat Pentagon leaders on Friday are set to formally end the 18-year-long ban that prevented gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. They are expected to notify President Obama, who will then send a letter to Congress. The… Continue reading
Jul 21 Dangerous Heat Wave Envelops Much of U.S., Somalia Facing Famine Crisis A dangerous "heat dome" blanketing the Midwest to the East Coast is being blamed for as many as 22 deaths Thursday, as 141 million people remained under a heat advisory with relief several days away in many places. Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch Much of U.S. Broils Under Extraordinarily Massive ‘Heat Dome’ Nearly 200 million Americans spent Wednesday under some form of warning about the relentless, stifling combination of extreme heat and humidity, which formed a so-called "heat dome" over a vast region. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Jul 20 Cameron Defends Coulson Hiring, FBI: Pakistan Illegally Lobbied Over Kashmir British Prime Minister David Cameron, under fire for his hiring of former News of the World employee Andy Coulson as his spokesman, defended himself before Parliament Wednesday, saying, "I regret, and I am extremely sorry, about the furor… Continue reading
Jul 19 Watch Floods, Fires, Storms Are Fodder for Centuries of Poems Jeffrey Brown and Yang discuss the poetic perspective of the beauty and power of nature. Continue watching
Jul 12 Watch Sweltering Heat Wave Roasts 24 States, Feeds Wildfires A heat wave blasted half of the U.S. Tuesday and triple-digit temperatures roasted Americans in cities in the Midwest and South. Gwen Ifill reports on the unrelenting hot weather, which broke a series of records and triggered heat warnings and… Continue watching
Jul 12 Karzai’s Half-Brother Killed in Afghanistan, Heat Wave Hits 23 States (Video: Karzai Brother Killed by Bodyguard) Ahmed Wali Karzai, half-brother to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and head of the Kandahar provincial council, was shot and killed by his bodyguard at his home Tuesday. The Taliban claimed responsibility… Continue reading
Jun 28 Food Prices Hit Small Town Indonesia By Talea Miller Families in Marunda, Indonesia are facing declining salaries just as global food prices are on the rise. Continue reading