Sergeant Mike Smith was a 28-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department, and only two years away from retirement when he was killed. His 9-year-old daughter Caroline remembers the last time she saw her father. Omar Villafranca reports. Source Read More »
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Dallas surgeon: “This killing, it has to stop”
On Monday, Doctor Brian Williams, a trauma surgeon at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, spoke about trying to save the wounded — and about tense race relations in America. Source Read More »
Two officers killed in Michigan courthouse shooting
Just four days after the Dallas shooting, at least two more law enforcement officers were killed at the Berrien County Courthouse in southwest Michigan. A county official says the shooter was an inmate being taken to the county jail when he grabbed a bailiff’s gun and started shooting. Source Read More »
Surprising health benefit of nail-biting?
A new study suggests kids who bite their nails or suck their thumb may have a lower risk of certain allergies. Brook Silva-Braga reports. Source Read More »
After child’s death, feds warn against using Peloton treadmill
Consumer Product Safety Commission cites a fatality and 38 other cases of kids and a pet injured by exercise equipment. Source Read More »
Country music duo Brothers Osborne on overcoming personal struggles
Anthony Mason talks to country music duo TJ and John Osborne of Brothers Osborne about their decision to take a break after John reached a breaking point with his mental health, and how they banded together as TJ decided to come out as gay in February. Source Read More »
Bill Nye at the head of the class
“Bill Nye the Science Guy” has gone from changing the way kids look at science to trying to change the way some adults deal with climate change. It’s a campaign that’s driven by pure passion, as he explains to Rita Braver. Source Read More »
Is it time for Hollywood to face up to a divisive issue?
A recent op-ed has dragged an Academy Award-winner into a debate about beauty, cosmetic surgery, and the battles women face to rise above double standards in Tinsel Town. Critic David Edelstein takes on the issue. Source Read More »
Dispensing with words
Don’t have time to read any more? Residents in a town in southern France don’t have that problem. Thanks to the startup website short-editions-dot-com 10,000 short story authors have been matched with a community of 150,000 regular readers with time to kill while waiting on line. David Turecamo explains an innovative technology. Source Read More »
Alma Wahlberg, mother of Mark and Donnie, dead at 78
“My mom Alma’s joy for life, love and people — combined with a pride in her humble beginnings and refusal to forget where she came from — undoubtedly shaped me into the man that I am,” Donnie Wahlberg said. Source Read More »