What happens in the U.S. when you make a mistake about which house to go to? If you are Black, it can mean being shot without warning or cause. This is what happened to Ralph Yarl on April 13th in Kansas City. Yarl is 16 years old. On April 13, he went to pick up his...
During the pandemic, states were federally mandated to forgo the screening process of eligibility for Medicaid, the U.S. program that provides healthcare coverage for about 85 million people, including many low-income families, pregnant women, seniors, and people with...
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance inherited from the days of the Cold War between the U.S. and the former USSR, now the Russian Federation. NATO gathers together 31 states in Europe and North America in a military alliance. After the...
Fallujah, Iraq, a city of just over a quarter million people, was the site of two major military attacks by the U.S. army. The city faced collective punishment in 2004 after four military contractors were captured and killed in the city square. The U.S. army made two...
The salmon fishing season in California has been canceled, as salmon populations have collapsed in the past few years. This year, only 170,000 fish are expected to return to the Sacramento River, down from a high of over a million salmon in the 1990s. Other salmon...
