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Family and colleagues of a Mexican crime photographer gather to pay final respects

Photojournalist Margarito Martinez was shot dead this week in the northern border city of Tijuana, the second journalist to be killed in Mexico in just weeks.

This undated selfie photo provided by family members shows Ma'Khia Bryant. The 16-year-old Bryant was shot and killed by police as she swung a knife at two other people on April 20, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio.

An Ohio police officer was cleared in the shooting of teenager Ma'Khia Bryant

The Columbus police officer who shot and killed 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant last year has been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, Ohio prosecutors announced Friday.

While Cities Celebrate Dropping HIV Infection Rates, Rural Communities At Risk Of Resurgence

Central Illinois Friends began 30 years ago in the height of the AIDS epidemic as a hospice center for patients dying of the disease.The agency is still…

An election worker places a voting receipt inside a box at a polling center Monday in Quezon City, Philippines.

Dictator's son far ahead in Philippine presidential vote

With 80% of the votes tabulated, Marcos Jr. had 25.9 million, far ahead of his closest challenger, current Vice President Leni Robredo, who had 12.3 million.

"This instrument right here, born in Africa, but then made in America and then altered by white America — that's the story of so much of our music," Rhiannon Giddens says of the banjo.

Rhiannon Giddens Speaks For The Silenced

Giddens' Freedom Highway is an exploration of African-American experiences accompanied by the banjo, with "a sound, that deepness, that quality is what people associated with American music."

Safia Munye looks over the remains of her restaurant, Mama Safia's Kitchen, on Saturday. It was destroyed last week during protests in Minneapolis.

Restaurant Owner Whose Business Burned Calls For Justice For George Floyd

Somali immigrant Safia Munye opened the Minneapolis restaurant Mama Safia's Kitchen with her retirement savings. It was destroyed. "This can be replaced. George's life cannot," she says.

Darren Braker uses an axe to break through the floor of a doctor's office with the aid of Jesse Braker (center) and Brent Luthi on Wednesday in Joplin, Mo. The men were attempting to help a local family physician retrieve patient records from a basement office.

In Joplin, Leaders Hold Tight To Rescue Hopes

No new survivors were pulled Wednesday from the rubble left by the single deadliest tornado in decades, but officials said they weren't giving up.

In Joplin, Leaders Hold Tight To Rescue Hopes

No new survivors were pulled Wednesday from the rubble left by the single deadliest tornado in decades, but officials said they weren't giving up.

What Hondurans In The U.S. Can Expect When They're Deported

Trump has ended temporary protected status for nearly 60,000 Hondurans. A Honduran who was deported 18 years ago gives them a preview of what life will be like when they return.

Guatemala Nun

Daniel talks with Dianna Ortiz, an American nun who says she was raped and tortured in Guatemala in 1989. Sister Dianna is in the eighth day of a vigil in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Park, which is across the street from The White House. She says that the U.S. government has information about her torturers and is keeping a vigil to pressure the U.S. government to release its investigative files on her case, and others like it. The Clinton administration has said that once the Intelligence Oversight Board has reviewed her case, the appropriate information will be made available.

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