Oct 01 This Syrian mother fled ISIS while pregnant. Her courage has stayed with me ever since By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon My eyes welled up when a smiling and confident Batoul stepped out from behind the curtains of the blue tarp she and her family call home. Continue reading
Oct 01 'There are still hundreds of victims buried': Aid groups struggle to deliver supplies after Indonesia tsunami By Larisa Epatko Authorities and aid agencies feared the death toll of 844 would rise once they assessed the damage in more remote locations. Continue reading
Oct 01 Pro-Catalan activists march in Barcelona By Aritz Parra, Renata Brito, Associated Press The anniversary of the event that sparked Spain's gravest political crisis in decades was marked by a fractured Catalan independence movement amid delicate talks on the region's future with the country's the center-left Socialist government. Continue reading
Oct 01 Jean-Claude Arnault, man at center of Nobel Literature scandal, convicted of rape By Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press The case began in November, when 18 women came forward in a Swedish newspaper with sex abuse accusations against Jean-Claude Arnault. Continue reading
Oct 01 Canada-U.S. agree on new trade deal to replace NAFTA By Paul Wiseman, Rob Gillies, Associated Press If signed, the new deal, called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, would replace the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement. Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch 4:07 How Facebook uses a hidden feature to share your information with advertisers By PBS News Hour This week, Facebook revealed that security breaches on the social media site could expose personal data for approximately 50 million users. This comes as the company faces renewed criticisms for utilizing a hidden function to share users' contact information, like… Continue watching
Sep 30 Watch 10:06 Thousands of Indian women in the U.S. are fighting to keep work permits By Melanie Saltzman, Joanne Elgart Jennings The Trump administration has signaled it plans to strip employment authorization from spouses of some H-1B visa holders. The change would mean that nearly 100,000 people -- predominantly women from India who followed their spouses to the U.S. -- would… Continue watching
Sep 30 How Australia can help the U.S. make democracy harder to hack By Scott Shackelford, Matthew Sussex, The Conversation In the drumbeat of reports about Russian attempts to undermine U.S. democratic institutions with trolls, Twitter bots and cyberattacks on congressional candidates, it is easy to forget that the problem of… Continue reading
Sep 30 Over 800 dead in Indonesia quake and tsunami; toll may rise By Niniek Karmini, Associated Press Rescuers struggled Sunday to reach victims in several large coastal towns in Indonesia that were hit by an earthquake and tsunami. Continue reading
Sep 30 Nobel Prizes still struggle with wide gender disparity By Mark Lewis, Associated Press The aura of this year's Nobel announcements has been dulled by questions over why so few women have entered the pantheon, particularly in the sciences. Continue reading