Monthly Archive: October 2016
Five U.S. Senators, led by former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, asked President Barack Obama Thursday to suspend all construction permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline and halt work on the nearly 4 billion dollar,...
The United Nations extended its mandate in Haiti this week for an additional six months – a move that many Haitians may not welcome. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon is set to arrive in...
The Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram has released 21 of the school girls it abducted two-and-a-half years ago. The group is believed to still be holding about 200 other girls. Sam Olukoya reports from...
A coalition of groups calling for a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico released research today after reviewing the frequency of accidents in the oil industry – at least those that get...
Many of the 35,000 former students at ITT Tech are still scrambling to figure out what to do this fall semester after the for-profit school collapsed. The mass closure of ITT campuses followed shortly after the...
Early Tuesday near the northern U.S. border with Canada, protesters shut down all five pipelines through which tar sands oil flows into the country; nine people were arrested. The actions came just two days...
Students across the country return to school today after celebrating Columbus, or Indigenous People’s Day. But in Chicago, many people expected classrooms to remain empty. The Chicago Teachers Union was set to strike unless...
Denver, Colorado today joins a short list of cities that are opting to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day instead of Columbus Day. The change comes after years of protest by Native American tribes and their...
Hurricane Matthew spirals up Florida coast; hundreds dead in Haiti After catastrophic bleaching of Great Barrier Reef, prospects for recovery look grim India-Pakistan tension grows along with unrest in Kashmir Colombian victims continue to...
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for his efforts to end the country’s 52-year-old armed conflict. The announcement comes just days after Colombian voters narrowly rejected the peace...