Faith Groups Get Out The Vote For The Midterm Elections
President Trump has prayed with evangelicals in the White House. He's nominated judges they like to federal courts, and granted their wish of moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. For the president's...
View ArticleFrom The Front Lines Of NAFTA, More Relief Than Rejoicing
The new trade deal with Canada and Mexico has been warmly welcomed by farmers, manufacturers and business groups across the country, but not always for the reasons President Trump anticipated. While...
View ArticleWhy The Tech Industry Wants Federal Control Over Data Privacy Laws
New laws in Europe and California are forcing tech companies to protect users' privacy or risk big fines. Now, the industry is fearing that more states will enact tough restrictions. So it's moving to...
View ArticleVatican's Meeting Of Bishops Is Overshadowed By Abuse Allegations
As clerical sex abuse scandals buffet the Catholic Church, a three-week assembly of bishops is under way in Rome on how to make the Church relevant for young people. But the assembly, known as a synod,...
View ArticleRomanian Referendum To Ban Same-Sex Marriage Fails
Like many churchgoers in Romania, retired engineer Marius Tufis opposes same-sex marriage. "I don't like man with man and woman with woman," he said, frowning in the sun after Sunday's service. "Our...
View ArticleThe Tale Of The Stolen Totenberg Stradivarius Ends With A New Legacy
Three years after his death, my father, virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg, made headlines all over the world when his beloved Stradivarius violin, stolen 35 years earlier, was recovered by the FBI....
View ArticleKetch Secor Brings An Appalachian Tale To Life With 'Lorraine'
Ever since he was a kid, Ketch Secor was obsessed with old-time country music. In fact, he made a career of it by leading the string band Old Crow Medicine Show . Appalachia, the birthplace of the...
View ArticleDespite A Ban, Arkansas Farmers Are Still Spraying Controversial Weedkiller
The fields and back roads of eastern Arkansas were a crime scene this past summer. State inspectors stopped alongside fields to pick up dying weeds. They tested the liquids in farmers' pesticide...
View ArticleIn Changing Climate, Endangered Right Whales Find New Feeding Grounds
Amy Knowlton pilots the 29-foot research vessel Nereid out of Lubec harbor and into the waters of the Bay of Fundy, off of easternmost Maine. A scientist with the New England Aquarium's Anderson Cabot...
View ArticleTrying Not To Break Down — A Homeless Teen Navigates Middle School
Fourteen-year-old Caydden Zimmerman's school days start early and end late. He has a 90-minute bus ride to get from the homeless shelter where he is staying in Boise, Idaho, to his middle school. He...
View ArticleChinese Firms Now Hold Stakes In Over A Dozen European Ports
For decades, whenever stevedore Giorgos Nouchoutidis arrived for work at the port of Piraeus, he would breathe in the fresh, briny sea breeze and feel a surge of pride. This port has long been a...
View ArticleMichael Upgraded To Category 4 'Major' Hurricane As It Approaches Florida...
Updated at 2:00 a.m. ET Wednesday Hurricane Michael has grown into a Category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds reaching 130 mph, as it barrels toward northwestern Florida, making it a much stronger...
View ArticleWhen ICU Delirium Leads To Symptoms Of Dementia After Discharge
Doctors have gradually come to realize that people who survive a serious brush with death in the intensive care unit are likely to develop potentially serious problems with their memory and thinking...
View ArticleComing To The Right Answer By Themselves: Talking With Boys About Sexual Assault
In the basement of a suburban Philadelphia home, half a dozen high school freshman boys recently met to munch on chips and pretzels — and to talk about sexual assault in the wake of the Brett Kavanaugh...
View ArticleIn A Drying Climate, Colorado's 'Water Cop' Patrols For Water Thieves
Dave Huhn is a sheriff's deputy for Montezuma County, Colo., a stretch of sagebrush mesas and sandstone cliffs bordering Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, home to Mesa Verde National Park, where ancestral...
View ArticleOf Protest And Patriotism: A 1968 Gold Medalist Remembers The Games
Fifty years ago Friday, Mexico City kicked off the opening ceremonies of the 1968 Summer Olympics. World records were shattered in those Games, but it was Tommie Smith's and John Carlos' medal podium...
View ArticleCommerce Secretary Now Recalls Discussing Citizenship Question With Steve...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDWiAiSWgNU Updated 8:50 p.m. ET Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross now recalls speaking with a White House official about the possibility of adding a citizenship question...
View ArticleA 'Voice For The Voiceless': Sainthood For El Salvador's Archbishop Óscar...
In March 1980, Patricia Morales Tijerino and her sister had just left a wedding in a little chapel in El Salvador's capital and were on their way to the reception. "And then I spotted him," Morales...
View ArticleNo Longer Daily, White House Press Briefings Fade As Trump Does The Talking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCL1ZG53tEU Press secretary Sarah Sanders last walked up to the lectern in the White House press briefing room on Oct. 3 after a 23-day drought. Before that, there had...
View ArticleBlown Roofs, Flying Glass: 'This Whole Town's Destroyed'
Most of the roads in Florida's Bay County are now impassable. There's no electricity, no working sewers, no gasoline, very little cell service, and a boil water advisory. "This whole town's destroyed"...
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