... * More on this on tonight's show: “Federal prosecutors briefed Attorney General Eric Holder about the civil rights investigation into the shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown, during Holder's trip to Ferguson on Wednesday.” * Making a connection: ...

FERGUSON, Missouri — The police haven't been able to stop it. Neither have the pastors, or the thousands of mostly peaceful protesters that have filled the city's streets for more than a week. Tear gas, gunshots and other forms of violence have become a ...

Israel retaliated with airstrikes Tuesday in Gaza after Palestinian militants fired three rockets into southern Israel, bringing a swift end to a temporary truce. Peace talks in Cairo to end the month-long war collapsed as Israeli officials withdrew their ...

In what Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson called a “turning point” for Ferguson in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the city saw its calmest night of protests as no bullets or tear gas were used. Johnson added that the bottles thrown around ...

Law-enforcement tactics in Ferguson, Missouri, have shifted more than once since last week's shooting of Michael Brown, and last night marked a new posture: the curfew was lifted, but the National Guard was on hand. And for a while, it appeared that ...

Zack Beauchamp and Max Fisher asked the sort of question on Friday that needs an answer: “Did Russia and Ukraine just start a war?” The answer probably isn't as obvious as it should be. Wars often come with some kind of qualifier – there are, among other ...

FERGUSON, Missouri—Police Chief Thomas Jackson has landed in what could be described as a nightmare scenario for the head of a largely segregated police department: the racially fraught and inexplicable killing of an unarmed black teen, Michael ...

For the first time ever, a woman has won a Fields Medal, the world's top math prize, according to The New York Times. Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian mathematician who is a professor at Stanford, was one of four winners announced on Wednesday. She is ...

For the first time ever, a woman has won a Fields Medal, the world's top math prize, according to The New York Times. Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian mathematician who is a professor at Stanford, was one of four winners announced on Wednesday. She is ...

More than 22,000 Americans were without power at the start of the July 4 holiday after Hurricane Arthur scythed through North Carolina's Outer Banks early Friday. Thousands more had already fled in preparation for the Category 2 storm, which has seen ...

Mississippi's incumbent Republican Senator Thad Cochran narrowly bested his Tea Party backed opponent in a runoff primary election on Tuesday. The victory was billed by many as a rebound for the GOP establishment just a week after House Majority ...

Mississippi's incumbent Republican Senator Thad Cochran narrowly bested his Tea Party backed opponent in a runoff primary election on Tuesday. The victory was billed by many as a rebound for the GOP establishment just a week after House Majority ...

... * Nigeria: “Nigerian officials say that 54 people were killed in two attacks in northern Nigeria suspected to be by Islamic extremists. Police constable Abdullahi Mohammed said Tuesday that suspected Boko Haram members killed 24 soldiers and 21 ...

... * Nigeria: “Nigerian officials say that 54 people were killed in two attacks in northern Nigeria suspected to be by Islamic extremists. Police constable Abdullahi Mohammed said Tuesday that suspected Boko Haram members killed 24 soldiers and 21 ...

For too long, much of the conversation about the climate crisis has focused on a horizon: we must act now to prevent problems in the future. The warnings were, of course, true, but they were also incomplete. The effects of climate change will grow more ...

Transgender people in India no longer have to categorize themselves as “male” or “female” in official documents. India's Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling Tuesday that allows hundreds of thousands of transgender people to identify themselves as a ...

As I write this, journalist Kathy Gannon is being medevaced from the southeastern province of Khost in Afghanistan, to the U.S. military base in Bagram, near Kabul. She and her colleague, photographer Anja Niedringhaus, both working for the Associated ...

As I write this, journalist Kathy Gannon is being medevaced from the southeastern province of Khost in Afghanistan, to the U.S. military base in Bagram, near Kabul. She and her colleague, photographer Anja Niedringhaus, both working for the Associated ...

As I write this, journalist Kathy Gannon is being medevaced from the southeastern province of Khost in Afghanistan, to the U.S. military base in Bagram, near Kabul. She and her colleague, photographer Anja Niedringhaus, both working for the Associated ...

Proving yet again that the leader of the western world's oldest institution is anything but old-fashioned, Pope Francis suggested this week that the Catholic Church could be open to civil unions for people in “diverse situations of cohabitation” – widely assumed ...