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Schools are closed in Seattle today as the city's first teacher strike in 30 years enters its fifth day. The impasse has delayed the start of the public school year for about 53,000 students.
The University of California has announced that it has sold off more than $200 million worth of investments in coal and tar sands companies. Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, discusses this divestment from fossil fuels.
On Tuesday, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin denied Richard Glossip a stay of execution as protests grew from supporters who say he is innocent. Glossip is scheduled to die at 3 p.m. Central time today.
Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope, celebrated mass in Cuba Sunday before hundreds of thousands of worshipers in Havana's Revolution Square.
Pope Francis arrives in Washington, D.C., today for the start of his historic U.S. tour. A group of 100 women, many of them undocumented, are also set to arrive in D.C. after marching 100 miles from a detention center in York, Pennsylvania, in order to...
Doctors Without Borders is demanding an independent international inquiry into a U.S. airstrike Saturday on an Afghan hospital in the city of Kunduz that killed 22 people.
Herrera discusses the role of poets in social movements, and reads his poem "Ayotzinapa," about the disappearance of 43 students in Guerrero, Mexico.
A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan with tremors felt as far away as Pakistan and northern India. Scores of people are reported dead with the toll expected to rise.
The Pentagon is also intensifying airstrikes against ISIL. Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine General Joseph Dunford, told a Senate panel he would consider recommending more U.S. soldiers be placed with Iraqi troops.
Republican presidential candidates faced off at their third debate Wednesday night in Boulder, Colorado.
In a major policy shift, the White House has announced a team of special operations forces numbering less than 50 will be sent to Syria.
Up to 7,500 Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by U.S.-led warplanes have launched an offensive against the self-proclaimed Islamic State in northern Iraq.
