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Wenjia Tang The Media Barely Covered One of the Worst Storms to Hit U.S. Soil
Weeks ago, Super Typhoon Yutu devastated the Northern Mariana Islands, which are home to tens of thousands of Americans. Mainland outlets paid little attention.
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California Department of Water Resources via Reuters How Did the Oroville Dam Crisis Get So Dire?
Drought, climate change, and aging infrastructure combined to create a looming catastrophe that forced 188,000 Californians to evacuate.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP The Pathos of El Faro's Final Hours
Across 500 pages of transcript drawn from the sunken freighter’s bridge, crew members question the decision to sail into Hurricane Joaquin and gradually grasp their perilous situation.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Why Was NJ Transit Going Too Fast in Hoboken?
In the last minute before a fatal crash last week, a commuter train sped up to twice the limit, the NTSB says.
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Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters 174 Heroin Overdoses in Six Days in Cincinnati
Officials say they face a public-health emergency, and believe a batch of the opioid may be tainted with an elephant tranquilizer.
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DHA via AP Carnage in a Kurdish Town in Turkey
A bomb in the city of Cizre, near the Syrian border, killed 11 police officers and injured dozens more. The banned PKK has claimed responsibility.
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Reuters Can a Data Recorder Solve the Mystery of El Faro?
A device plucked from 15,000 feet under the sea could help investigators understand why the cargo ship went down last October, killing 33 people.
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Ian Langsdon / AP The Fragile Unity of a Nation Under Attack
With each new terrorist incident in France, the solidarity that accompanied previous ones becomes harder to sustain.
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Stewart F. House / Getty The Dallas Shooting and the Advent of Killer Police Robots
Chief David Brown says officers used a device equipped with a bomb to kill a suspect, a perhaps unprecedented move that raises new questions about use of lethal force.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Trump's Angry Broadside Against Muslims and Immigration
The presumptive Republican nominee responded to the shooting in Orlando with a blistering attack on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters Can Prosecutors Convict Anyone at All in the Death of Freddie Gray?
Officer Caesar Goodson, who was driving the van in which the 25-year-old black man was fatally injured, faces the most serious charges.
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Joseph Kaczmarek / AP 'Preventable Tragedy': Amtrak 188 and the Case for Positive Train Control
The NTSB concludes that the engineer in a deadly 2015 crash in Philadelphia was distracted by radio traffic, following rocks striking another train.
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Reuters 'So, How's the Ethnic Cleansing Going?'
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Congress Plumbs the Depths of Flint’s Water Crisis
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and EPA chief Gina McCarthy on Thursday faced harsh questioning about lead poisoning in the city.
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Al Goldis / AP When Did Rick Snyder Learn About Legionnaire's in Flint?
Michigan’s governor says he only found out in January, but newly revealed emails show his aides were aware of the fatal outbreak nine months ago.
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Aaron Josefczyk / Reuters Cleveland Cop Michael Brelo: Acquitted but Fired
Six officers involved in the November 2012 shooting of Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell will be dismissed.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The Political Reactions to the San Bernardino Shooting
The tenor of the immediate responses to the mass shooting in California exemplified the partisan divide.
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Zoubeir Souissi / Reuters Darkness in the Arab Spring’s Brightest Spot
Tunisia declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after an explosion killed 12 presidential guards in the capital.
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Mali TV ORTM / AP Hostage Crisis in Mali: What We Know
Gunmen killed at least 18 people, and took more than 100 hostages, at a luxury hotel in the capital city of Bamako.
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Wikimedia Track of the Day: 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'
