Lawmakers on Capitol Hill held a hearing today, and threatened to subpoena internal State Department communications to determine if administration officials placed trade policy above human rights on this year’s human trafficking report. FSRN’s...
The Gulf Coast Dead Zone is a massive area of water near Louisiana and Texas, where most marine life cannot live at the bottom due to low oxygen levels. It’s caused by an excess...
Militants from Brazil’s landless workers movement have mobilized in the capital Brasilia and across the country, alleging that the federal government is slashing its budget for agrarian reform. The group, one of Brazil’s largest...
Human traffickers often target job seekers in underdeveloped countries willing to migrate for work and use force, fraud or coercion to hold victims in conditions of debt servitude or slavery. A common scheme is...
Yet another journalist has been murdered in Mexico – but this time the crime occurred in what is known as the country’s safe haven. Shannon Young has more. Download Audio Photojournalist Rubén Espinosa was...
Turkey intensifies airstrikes against Kurdish militants; also targets IS Climate activists in Portland attempt to block Shell-leased ship on its way to the Arctic Medicare and Medicaid turn 50; advocates rally for single-payer for...
Investigators in Colombia’s second largest city began work this week to exhume human remains from what is considered to be the world’s largest mass grave in an urban area. Lewis Reining reads for Jorge...
All photos by Jorge Luis Rocha. Read/hear his accompanying radio report. Click on any thumbnail image to launch slideshow.
Medicare and Medicaid turned 50 on Thursday, and some advocates marked the anniversary by calling for expanding the publicly-funded federal health care program nationwide. Under the Affordable Care Act, 31 states plus the District...
An Ohio police officer turned himself in Wednesday and is charged with murder in the recent shooting death of an unarmed African American man during a routine traffic stop. From the very beginning, Samuel...
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