May 12 Why Did April Spawn so Many Deadly Tornadoes in the South? By Jenny Marder Photo courtesy Katrina Floyd A scary thing happened to Katrina Floyd on the morning of April 27. A thunderstorm swept through her northeast Alabama town of Ider in the early morning hours, uprooting trees and knocking out power and cell… Continue reading
May 12 NATO Strikes Gadhafi Compound, Demjanjuk Found Guilty of Nazi War Crimes By News Desk A picture taken in Gaza city on May 11, 2011 shows Moammar Gadhafi appearing on Libyan state television. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images) NATO air strikes targeted one of Moammar Gadhafi's compounds in the Libyan capital of Tripoli Thursday, following attacks… Continue reading
May 11 Japan’s Triple Disaster, By the Numbers On March 11, Japan's northeastern shore was struck by a massive earthquake followed by a violent tsunami. Within days a third disaster was unfolding, a crisis at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power facility. Continue reading
May 11 Watch Syrian Regime’s ‘Fear Factor’ May Be Giving Way to Wider Protests As Syrian government tanks shell residential neighborhoods, Judy Woodruff discusses what is next for the Syrian uprising with The National Defense University's Murhaf Jouejati and The Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Andrew Tabler. Continue watching
May 11 Watch All Eyes on Mississippi River Levees, Spillways as Flood Tensions Continue Crews filled sandbags and shored up levees along the Mississippi River as enormous volumes of water surged south. Jeffrey Brown takes a closer look at the levee and floodgate system with the Association of State Floodplain Managers' Larry Larson and… Continue watching
May 11 Slide Show: The Japan Crisis, 2 Months Later By Talea Miller It has been two months since a catastrophic earthquake rocked Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and critically damaging the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In the slide show below, learn more about the toll and costs of the triple-disaster,… Continue reading
May 11 Detained GlobalPost Reporter ‘Treated Well’ in Libya, Visitor Says By Larisa Epatko Our partners at GlobalPost reported Wednesday that their freelance contributor James Foley and another Western journalist detained with him in Libya, Claire Morgan Gillis, were allowed a visitor who said they were in good health and were being treated well. Continue reading
May 11 30 Years After Bob Marley’s Death By Tom LeGro Today marks the 30th anniversary of the death of music legend Bob Marley. The Jamaican reggae star died young in 1981, at just 36 from cancer, leaving behind a legacy that reaches across all musical genres, ages and around the… Continue reading
May 11 Q&A: In Syria, Destroying the Country to Save the Regime? By Larisa Epatko The Syrian government stepped up its campaign to quash a seven-week uprising Thursday, reportedly using tanks to fire on cities. We asked Andrew Tabler of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy about the government's actions. Continue reading
May 11 House Intel Chair: No Evidence Senior Pakistani Officials Knew bin Laden’s Whereabouts By Michael D. Mosettig The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that thus far, he has seen no evidence that senior Pakistani officials knew of or abetted Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad. Rep. Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican and former… Continue reading