Nov 05 Red Hook’s Resilience Tested by Sandy Red Hook is a remarkably close-knit and neighborly community. Sandy tested that social infrastructure but did not damage it, even though half the neighborhood lacks power and hundreds of residents have lost piles of personal possessions and family memorabilia. Continue reading
Nov 05 The Overseas Contingent By Jeremy Blackman An absentee ballot completed and ready to send home to the U.S. Photo courtesy of the Overseas Vote Foundation. Their numbers rival the populations in some swing states, and they could -- in theory -- play as critical a role… Continue reading
Nov 05 Could New Technology Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Anti-Aircraft Missiles? By David Chalian A member of the 8th Security Police Squadron is silhouetted against the sky as he holds a Stinger anti-aircraft guided missile. Photo by USAF. With the Syrian civil war seemingly locked in stalemate as the violence enters its 20th month,… Continue reading
Nov 05 Booming Business is Tragedy for Gravediggers of Aleppo EmbedVideo(4884, 482, 304); Video shot and edited by Toby Muse. For those resting in Aleppo's cemetery, Syria's violence is now over. The graveyard is a rare spot of peace -- as if both the rebels and the army see… Continue reading
Nov 02 Watch As Civilian Casualties Rise, Syrian Children Attend Secret Schools As Civilian Casualties Rise, Syrian Children Attend Class in Secret Schools… Continue watching
Nov 02 Watch As Civilian Casualties Rise, Syrian Children Attend Secret Schools As Civilian Casualties Rise, Syrian Children Attend Class in Secret Schools… Continue watching
Nov 02 Watch Northeast Storm Victims Begin to Lose Patience at Lack of Basic Needs Northeast Storm Victims Begin to Lose Patience at Lack of Basic Needs… Continue watching
Nov 02 Watch News Wrap: EPA Charges Korean Automakers Overstated Cars’ Fuel Economy News Wrap: EPA Charges Korean Automakers Overstated Cars' Fuel Economy… Continue watching
Nov 02 Health Care Workers Brace for New Cholera Outbreaks in Haiti By Fred de Sam Lazaro PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Hurricane Sandy might have saved its fullest fury for America's mid-Atlantic coast, but its earlier blows in the Caribbean wreaked havoc in Haiti. Already struggling to recover from the effects of Hurricane Isaac in August,… Continue reading
Nov 02 Haiti Battles Hurricane Sandy and Cholera By Larisa Epatko More than 50 people have died in Haiti from Hurricane Sandy, which hit the Caribbean island in late October, washing away crops and threatening to worsen a cholera epidemic. Continue reading