Aug 29 Special needs children find thrills at Texas amusement park By Annie Shim, Student Reporting Labs Students from Communications Arts High School in San Antonio, Texas, produced this video. For a lot of Americans, amusement parks are the stuff of wonderful childhood memories, like that moment your stomach drops right before the first plunge in a… Continue reading
Aug 29 Who will help the U.S. battle the Islamic State in Syria? By Bradley Klapper, Associated Press In the last year-and-a-half, Islamic State extremists have fought the Syrian army, Hezbollah and Iranian forces. They've clashed with al-Qaida's local affiliate, routed Iraq's army and pushed back Kurdish peshmerga fighters. American airstrikes in Iraq have recently caused somewhat of… Continue reading
Aug 29 U.S. officials fear radicalized citizens will carry out lone-wolf terror plots By Ken Dilanian, Bradley Klapper, Associated Press The Obama administration has offered a wide range of assessments of the threat to U.S. national security posed by the extremists who say they've established a caliphate, or Islamic state, in an area straddling eastern Syrian and northern and western… Continue reading
Aug 29 Syrian refugees top 3 million, says U.N. agency By Larisa Epatko The number of Syrian refugees seeking safety in other parts of the world has surpassed 3 million, making it the “biggest humanitarian emergency of our era,” said Antonio Guterres, head of the U.N. refugee agency, on Friday. Continue reading
Aug 29 Uganda’s gay rights and sex worker activists answer your questions about HIV prevention By Nora Daly As HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths around the world fall, rates in Uganda have been on the rise in recent years. Part of the problem, according to many of the world's top public health experts, is that the populations most… Continue reading
Aug 29 Perry criticizes Obama for ‘no strategy’ on Syria By Will Weissert, Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press Texas Gov. Rick Perry is wasting little time pouncing on President Barack Obama's "we don't have a strategy yet"comments about the violent militant faction attacking cities in Iraq,… Continue reading
Aug 29 ‘We are all humans’ — young Israelis and Palestinians speak out By Corinne Segal Israel and Hamas announced an open-ended cease-fire this week, bringing a halt to the conflict in Gaza that has rocked the area and killed more than 2,000 people since the end of June. We spoke with Israeli and Palestinian students… Continue reading
Aug 29 NATO: very much alive at 65 By Michael D. Mosettig When the leaders of the North Atlantic alliance wrapped up their Chicago summit two years ago and started preparing for their 65th anniversary meeting in 2014, they could have asked John Travolta to provide the soundtrack, "Stayin' Alive."… Continue reading
Aug 29 First Ebola case reported in Senegal as virus spread picks up speed By Sarah McHaney Ebola has spread to a fifth country as the Ministry of Health in Senegal announced it’s first case today. A university student from Guinea is receiving treatment for Ebola in Dakar, the nation’s capital. He had contact with Ebola patients… Continue reading
Aug 28 Watch PBS NewsHour full episode Aug. 28, 2014 By PBS News Hour Thursday on the NewsHour, Ukraine accuses Russia of making a military advance across the border. Also: Speeding up human trials of a new Ebola vaccine, providing for unaccompanied child migrants, reinventing Chicago’s community colleges and the creative process behind designing… Continue watching