This story has been modified from its original version During the past few months, the crisis in journalism has reached meltdown proportions.
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U.N. envoy ‘motivates Somali warlords’
A controversial comment by the top U.N. envoy to Somalia "motivates" those who have carried out recent fatal attacks against journalists in the war-torn country, the head of the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) said Wednesday
Amputee, doctor of poor faces losing his home
Luis Caplan served the poor of the South Bronx for decades out of a small medical office. His leg was amputated after a bout with cancer in 1990, yet he continued to work for another five years
Winds continue to spread Australia’s wildfires
Winds whipping across southeastern Australia’s countryside continued to fan deadly brushfires Wednesday, spreading flames through rural towns and ravaging scores of homes. “The temperatures are much cooler, but the concern is there’s still this wind which sort of fans the flames and keeps them spreading,” said CNN Correspondent John Vause from Whittlesea, where tent cities have sprung up just north of Melbourne. Relief agencies pitched camps for those forced out of their homes.
Businesses in depressed Indiana town doubt Washington can help
Surviving economically in downtrodden Elkhart, Indiana, may require doing some things you don’t want to do. “Here in Elkhart, I’ve never seen things as bad as they are,” lifelong resident Yvonne Sell said Tuesday. “When you open the newspaper, unless you want to be a topless dancer, there’s nothing.” Elkhart became the poster child for the nation’s economic downturn when President Obama visited there Monday and then mentioned it several times during his first White House press conference
Obama’s inaugural speech
Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and the nation’s first African-American president Tuesday. This is a transcript of his prepared speech
Stimulus will lead to ‘disaster,’ Republican warns
Leading Republicans warned Sunday that the Obama administration’s $800 billion-plus economic stimulus effort will lead to what one called a "financial disaster." “Everybody on the street in America understands that,” said Sen. Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee