We trust them. We get sick, or have some unexplained pain, maybe even get a bit scared and we go to them to “get well”. And maybe that tactic works when you are young and very strong… before the contamination takes full effect. But the more we consume the garbage considered food, or the chemically laden […] Continue reading → 
The downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 highlights a fact long known to those watching the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine: You can’t expect reliable information about it from officials or media, whether Russian, Ukrainian or Western. As a result, relatives of people killed on the plane must now subsist on a familiar diet of […] Continue reading → 
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Less than five months ago, they had rushed to Kuala Lumpur International Airport — anxious relatives with a hope in their hearts, however faint, that a missing jumbo jet with their loved ones had not crashed, and would eventually be found. This week, throngs of relatives came again with no hope, […] Continue reading → 
The record flood of Central American children crossing the U.S. border is stretching funds and setting off improvisation at public schools. While politicians spend the summer fighting over how to turn back the tide, school leaders across the U.S. are struggling to absorb a new student population the size of Newark, New Jersey’s. More than […] Continue reading → 
Thousands of immigrant children fleeing poverty and violence in Central America to cross alone into the United States can live in American cities, attend public schools and possibly work here for years without consequences. The chief reasons are an overburdened, deeply flawed system of immigration courts and a 2002 law intended to protect children’s welfare, […] Continue reading → 
In the more than 100 days since her husband disappeared along with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Zhang Qian’s world has collapsed. She quit her job, sleeps rarely and prefers not to go out, except to the Buddhist temples where she has found some solace. “At the temple, I can speak from my heart to my […] Continue reading → 
Several families of those aboard Flight MH370 have launched a fund-raising drive to encourage an insider to come forward. Sarah Bajc, whose partner was on the flight, tells DW she believes information is being withheld. The fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has been shrouded in mystery ever since the passenger jet left Kuala Lumpur […] Continue reading → 
The Malaysian government on Tuesday released 45 pages of raw satellite data it used to determine the flight path of the missing jetliner, information long sought after by some of the relatives of the 239 people on board the plane. More than three months after the plane went missing en route to Beijing, no trace […] Continue reading → 
A woman who dropped out of Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University was arrested Sunday night after admitting to calling in two bomb threats in an effort to keep her family from learning she had dropped out of school, police said. Danielle Shea, 22, of Quincy, Massachusetts, made the threats after arriving at the ceremony in a cap […] Continue reading → 
Two Bangladeshi navy ships have begun searching the Bay of Bengal for traces of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, but have yet to find anything, a commander said Friday. The ships are operating off a tip from an Australian company that claims to have found possible traces of an underwater airplane wreck in the area. […] Continue reading → 
Near Perth, Australia A private company declared that it has found what it believes is wreckage of a plane in the ocean, but leaders of the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are dismissing the claim. The reasons for the skepticism are obvious — the site where GeoResonance says it found the wreckage, […] Continue reading → 
With Most of the seabed area searched for missing Malaysia Airlines flight without success experts fear wider hunt could take years. The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane could take years, a senior US defence official has warned, as the underwater search off Western Australia failed to find any trace of wreckage or black […] Continue reading → 
Today marks 46 days since Malaysia Airlines flight 370 vanished over the southern Indian Ocean. For the legal fraternity in the United States, it is officially Day 1. According to CNN, the US enforces a 45-day rule for how long American lawyers have to wait before reaching out to a family that has lost a […] Continue reading → 
Today marks 46 days since Malaysia Airlines flight 370 vanished over the southern Indian Ocean. For the legal fraternity in the United States, it is officially Day 1. According to CNN, the US enforces a 45-day rule for how long American lawyers have to wait before reaching out to a family that has lost a […] Continue reading → 
As the search continued off the coast of Australia for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, the airline announced another plane bound for India was forced to make an emergency landing early Monday after one of its tires burst on takeoff. All 159 passengers and seven crew members arrived safely back in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, about […] Continue reading →