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Pritzker Prize 2022: Francis Kéré becomes first African to win 'Nobel of architecture'
When he was 7 years old, Francis Kéré left his family home to attend school because his village, Gando in Burkina Faso, did not have one of its own. Thirteen years later he moved to Germany on a carpentry scholarship with a dream of returning home one day to build the classrooms that didn't then exist.
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Cosby Says He Doesn’t Expect To Testify At Sex Assault Trial
Bill Cosby says he doesn’t expect to testify at his Pennsylvania sexual assault trial.
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T.I. Tells Trolls To Shut Their Mouths About His Crumbling Marriage
T.I. claps back at the haters who've blamed him for the dissolution of his marriage.
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Lil Yachty Begs YG To Send Him His "Teenage Emotions" Verse
Lil Yachty declares YG as the first known feature on his debut album, "Teenage Emotions" ... if he ever gets his verse, that is.
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Remembering Houston Radio Legend Robert “Bassman” Washington
Houstonians are mourning the loss of a Houston radio legend. Robert “Bassman” Washington died Sunday morning at the age of 48-years-old.
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CNN's Don Lemon is engaged to boyfriend Tim Malone
He put a ring on it! CNN anchor Don Lemon announced his engagement to boyfriend Tim Malone on Saturday.
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Deshaun Watson Named AFC Offensive Player of the Week
Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson was named AFC Offensive Player of the Week by the NFL after Sunday’s victory of the New England Patriots. Watson has now earned his fifth Player of the Week award in his career which ranks him second in franchise history behind defensive end J.J. Watt who has seven.
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Deshaun Watson Named AFC Offensive Player of the Week
Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson was named AFC Offensive Player of the Week by the NFL after Sunday’s victory of the New England Patriots. Watson has now earned his fifth Player of the Week award in his career which ranks him second in franchise history behind defensive end J.J. Watt who has seven.
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Four astronauts are preparing to return home from a record-breaking mission. This image shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 15, 2020. Mandat
Nupur Gupta was nearing the end of a two-week stint teaching at a yoga retreat in Goa, India. It was February 2019 and the weather was balmy, bathing Goa's famous beaches in a warm glow. The sea glistened, invitingly.
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Will Vladimir Putin Ever Release His Grip on Russia?
It may be more than a week until Russians actually cast their votes, but President Vladimir Putin's campaign already feels like a victory lap.
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Trump, facing fury, says he misspoke with Putin
President Donald Trump, facing an onslaught of bipartisan fury over his glowing remarks about Vladimir Putin, said more than 24 hours afterward that he had misspoken during his news conference with the autocratic Russian leader.
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Yes, I will keep listening to Michael Jackson
I believe Wade Robson and James Safechuck. Not because I believe all accusers of sexual molestation should be believed; I don't. Not because I believe that "Leaving Neverland," the HBO documentary by Dan Reed in which both men accuse Michael Jackson of sexually molesting them, answers all the points made by the dead singer's family in his defense; it doesn't.
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Trump Faces His First Budgetary Cliff
Everyone knows that Washington was built on a swamp. But in recent years it's felt more like the capital is teetering on the edge of a cliff.
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'I can't breathe.' Jamal Khashoggi's last words disclosed in transcript, source says
"I can't breathe." These were the final words uttered by Jamal Khashoggi after he was set upon by a Saudi hit squad at the country's consulate in Istanbul, according to a source briefed on the investigation into the killing of the Washington Post columnist.
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Gupta to Jeff Sessions: Medical marijuana could save many addicted to opioids
I feel obligated to share the results of my five-year-long investigation into the medical benefits of the cannabis plant. Before I started this worldwide, in-depth investigation, I was not particularly impressed by the results of medical marijuana research, but a few years later, as I started to dedicate time with patients and scientists in various countries, I came to a different conclusion.
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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Calls for the Firing of the NYPD Officer Responsible for Taking the Life of Eric Garner
Jackson Lee—“The time has come for the individual responsible for Eric’s death to face accountability, and be fired from the New York Police Department. This is the right course of action and should be done for many reasons. First, if our efforts at ensuring greater community police relationships are to have any meaning, then all stakeholders must feel that there is accountability when police officers err. This is one-such occasion where ideals about restorative justice dictate that all stakeholders stand collectively for the officer’s firing. This is the only conclusion given what the video of Eric’s last moments of life shows: the officer who killed Eric was not in fear for his life. Eric was not combative—in fact, the video shows him flailing, begging for his life, telling his apprehender that he could not breathe. My conversations with his mother—whom I know personally—further underscore that this father and grandfather was not a menace to society; rather, he was like the countless other African American men whose life was wrongly taken by law enforcement. It is time for accountability and responsibility and terminating this officer’s employment is the obligation of people who support enhanced police relations. It is time for all parties dealing with law enforcement across the nation to insist on police accountability and integrity. In addition to community-oriented policing as a method of training police, police departments across the nation should work to improve police/community relations as part of a community-oriented policing strategy. And, it is time for the man who took Eric Garner’s life to be fired from his position as an officer on the NYPD and it is time for the Garner family to have peace and justice.”
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Iran: No Female Ministers in Rouhani's Proposed Cabinet List
Iran's newly re-elected President has not included any women in his proposed list of 17 ministers, according to Iranian state media, reneging on an election pledge to his largely reformist base.
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Congressman Al Green Presents His Articles of Impeachment
On Wednesday, October 11, 2017, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) continued his call for the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump by reading/noticing Articles of Impeachment. Rep. Al Green did not force a vote on Wednesday, stating that he wanted to provide his colleagues in Congress and the American public an opportunity to review the articles. However, he indicates that there will be a vote.
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Seoul's mayor found dead, after seven-hour search
The mayor of Seoul -- the second-most powerful official in South Korea -- has been found dead on a mountainside within the capital city.
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Mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor has announced his retirement from the sport, posting the news on Twitter.
Nearly a year before his letter Sunday telling lawmakers he did not believe President Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice, Attorney General William Barr authored a memo saying he thought the obstruction investigation was "fatally misconceived."
