Jan 26 Watch In Chaos of Post-Earthquake Haiti, Artists Create Poetry Amid Rubble On his recent reporting trip to Haiti, Jeffrey Brown explored the story of Haitian poets and artists surviving -- and creating -- amid the rubble of last year's earthquake. Continue watching
Jan 17 Watch News Wrap: Giffords May Soon Move to Rehabilitation A synopsis of the day's other top news stories. Continue watching
Jan 14 Watch Doctors Encouraged by Giffords’ Recovery Progress In the day's other headlines, recovery and remembrance continued in Tucson and a memorial service took place in Washington for Richard Holbrooke, a veteran diplomat who died in December. Continue watching
Jan 14 Brazil Floods Death Toll Rises, Tunisian Protesters Call for President To Step Down (In-depth coverage of the Tucson tragedy.) Death Toll Rises to More Than 500 in Brazil After Floods, Mudslides A man stands at his doorway observing the wreckage caused by mudslides and flooding in Teresopolis, some 100 km from… Continue reading
Jan 13 Watch Death Tolls Rise in Tunisian Clashes, Brazil’s Floods Sudden flooding and mudslides killed at least 400 people in Brazil, and many more are still missing. In Tunisia, President Ben Ali offered concessions to try to quell growing protests that have left at least 23 people dead. Continue watching
Jan 13 Massive Mudslides in Brazil Kill at Least 350, Lebanon’s Unity Government Collapses (In-depth coverage of President Obama's speech in Tucson, including video of the speech and analysis.) Floods, Mudslides in Brazil Kill at Least 350 Heavy rain and mudslides in the mountainous towns of Nova Friburgo, Teresopolis and Petropolis in… Continue reading
Jan 13 Watch Haiti Slow to Rebuild in Aftermath of Devastating Quake Jeffrey Brown traveled to Haiti to look at the struggle to rebuild and recover a year after a massive earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince and nearby area. Continue watching
Jan 12 Watch Australia’s Flooding Disaster Forces Many to Flee John Irvine of Independent Television News reports from Brisbane, Australia, where a major evacuation has taken place as massive floods approach. Continue watching
Jan 12 In Haiti, ‘Rhythm Rests in Our Marrow’ Music is the tenor of Haitian cultural life, carved out of the oppression of slavery and the desire to live freely, writes Haitian-American poet and scholar Patrick Sylvain. It represents a cultural ethos based upon human reality. Continue reading
Jan 12 In Photos: A Year of Tragedy and Survival in Haiti By Talea Miller Wednesday marks one year since a magnitude-7 earthquake devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010, killing more than 230,000 people and injuring many more. Rick Loomis, a Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer for the Los Angeles Times, arrived in Haiti one… Continue reading