Prosecutor says she received 'pushback' after charging parents over Michigan...
Oakland County, Mich., prosecutor Karen McDonald says she has received "pushback" from within her own office over the decision to charge the parents of the Oxford High School shooting suspect, but she...
View ArticleIt's time to recalculate your COVID 'risk budget'. Here's how
After two years of this pandemic we've gotten the hang of a few things, like wearing a mask in crowds and washing our hands frequently.Vaccines and boosters are here. Testing is more available — though...
View ArticleRead the impassioned plea from Ukraine's U.N. ambassador to Russia to stop...
Updated February 24, 2022 at 5:02 PM ETMoments after Russia announced the invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian representative to the United Nations launched an intense, last-ditch call for Russian...
View ArticleOne witness describes the Russian invasion of Ukraine: 'I woke up and heard...
When 22-year-old college student Vitaliy Shutov went to bed last night, he didn't think a Russian invasion of Ukraine would actually happen.But then he woke to the sound of explosions near his home...
View ArticleA part of the NATO treaty could turn Russia's invasion of Ukraine into a...
As Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, some U.S. officials and analysts were already warning of a possible escalation of the conflict into a wider war.The trigger: Article 5 of the North Atlantic...
View ArticleWe're trying everything to avoid WWIII, acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine says
RZESZOW, POLAND — As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, NATO forces are building in border countries in an effort to contain the conflict and prevent a wider war, according to the latest...
View ArticleA rescue team evacuates premature American twins from Kyiv in a daring mission
RZESZOW, Poland — It's 9:15 a.m. and Bryan Stern is waiting outside a Kyiv hospital. The sound of shelling in the distance forces him and his team to hurry. They need to get two premature babies into...
View ArticleOne woman's 18-point survival checklist for fleeing Ukraine as Russia invades
PRZEMYŚL, Poland — As millions leave Ukraine to escape the Russian invasion, one woman's checklist for surviving the train ride into Poland reveals the desperation and struggle that awaits those who...
View ArticleA Polish hotel recovering from its own tragic past has become a refuge for...
In the city of Lublin, between winding cobbled streets, stands a bright yellow building that's impossible to miss.It has eight columns out front and a wide staircase that leads to large, carved wooden...
View ArticleThis Polish mayor has become a hero for Ukrainians in crisis. But what of his...
PRZEMYSL, Poland — As the mayor of a small city hugging the border with Ukraine, Wojciech Bakun admits he was ill-prepared to become a front-line humanitarian worker dealing with the fastest exodus of...
View ArticleFor this team delivering aid into Ukraine, the supply run is personal
RZEZSOW, Poland — Silva Alkebeh has run missions everywhere from Darfur to Pakistan to Bangladesh. Now, she is loading a truck in Poland that is bound for Ukraine.But these aren't military shipments,...
View ArticleVolunteers in Poland are setting up Ukrainian refugees to survive the coming...
PRZEMYSL, Poland — As Ukrainians continue to flee the war at home and pour over the border into neighboring countries, a makeshift system of supplies and volunteer aid has sprung up in the Przemyśl...
View ArticlePoland rebuilds abandoned rail tracks to Ukraine to help refugees fleeing the...
KROŚCIENKO, POLAND - In a remote mountainous province in the southeast tip of Poland, surrounded by snow and bare trees, 11 burly men in orange suits are hard at work.They are rushing to rebuild an...
View ArticleOn the front lines of Poland's makeshift response to the Ukrainian refugee...
MEDYKA and KROSCIENKO, Poland — At the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, an exhausted Ukrainian mother carries her toddler over the checkpoint and onto Polish soil.There, a young man in uniform is...
View ArticleTragedy now overshadows Uvalde, a small town growing in population
The small town of Uvalde, Texas, is a place where Friday night football rules, and its claim to fame is being the hometown of actor Matthew McConaughey.It's not a place where tightknit locals expected...
View ArticleWhat tiny towns in rural America can teach the cities about adaptation
When Zach Huelsing and Jon Lehman started dating long-distance in 2007, the lonely drives on the highway to see each other soon became tedious.So they began taking the side roads, winding their way...
View ArticleThe monkeypox outbreak was avoidable and warning signs were ignored, expert...
Monkeypox has been a developing problem for decades and the current global outbreak was avoidable, but the looming threat was largely ignored, according to a leading expert on the virus.Dr. Anne Rimoin...
View ArticleThe cartels flexed their power in Tijuana — and now the battle for influence...
TIJUANA, Mexico — Moses Zazueta Ramirez was at home last Friday when he started getting messages from his mom and seeing the chaos unfold on social media.A drug cartel had hijacked and burned more than...
View ArticleIn converted buses and tin-roof sheds, migrant students get a lesson in hope
In a small shelter made of cinder block walls and a tin roof, Armando Hurtado Medina writes on a whiteboard the size of the TVs in many American homes.It's 6pm and lessons have just begun in this...
View ArticleDemocracy, are you OK? What recent history tells us about the state of politics
When Liz Truss took power last week in London, she became the United Kingdom's fourth prime minister in six years. In Israel, voters are about to hold their fifth election in less than four years. And...
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