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Why Schools Fail To Teach Slavery's 'Hard History'

A new report says too many students don't know the basics of American slavery and too many teachers feel ill-served by bad textbooks and timid state standards.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who resigned last week in a televised speech from the Saudi capital, Riyadh, stares out from a poster on the side of a road in Tripoli, Lebanon.

Saudi Arabia Tells Its Citizens To Leave Lebanon, And It's Not Completely Clear Why

The bulletin didn't give a reason, merely citing "situations." But it's been five days since Lebanon's premier announced — from Saudi Arabia — that he was resigning, and he hasn't been home since.

Nurse Sheri Juan measures a San Diego hospice patient's arm for edema, which could be a sign his congestive heart failure is worsening, Jan. 12, 2017.

New Medicare Website Measures Quality Of Hospice Care

For patients facing the end of life and for their loved ones, how to select a hospice can be challenging. Now a new national scorecard shows which hospices do a better job at easing the process of death, and those that need to improve.

This undated photo shows the USS Carl Vinson at sea.

San Diego-Based USS Carl Vinson Returns Home

San Diego-based ships and sailors in the carrier strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson are scheduled to return to San Diego Friday after a deployment of more than five months.

The National Weather Service shows high temperatures are expected Friday, June 23, 2017.

Extremely Hot Weather Persists Through The Weekend

Extremely hot weather in San Diego County's deserts is expected to persist Friday through early next week and temperatures in other inland areas will spike on Sunday.

Jamie Harron, 27, was arrested in July and charged with a variety of offenses. He was ordered jailed for three months over what he says was incidental contact with a man in a crowded bar.

Dubai Jails, Then Frees, Scottish Tourist Over Touching Man In A Bar

One day after a Dubai court ordered Scottish tourist Jamie Harron to spend three months in jail over touching a man as he passed him in a bar, Dubai's ruler has ordered Harron freed.

A refugee transit center on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, in a photo taken last year. Two class action lawsuits are seeking injunctions to transfer refugees held there to Australia and award damages to them.

Lawsuits Say Australia Subjects Asylum-Seekers To Torture And Crimes Against Humanity

The class actions represent more than 1,000 migrants detained by the government on islands belonging to other countries, under contract with Australia.

Mohamed Ayas, 15, was shot in the back by Myanmarese soldiers as he attempted to flee his village in Myanmar's western Rakhine State.

PHOTOS: Children Caught In The Crossfire Of Rohingya Crisis

More than half the 400,000 refugees who have fled to Bangladesh are children. That presents a daunting challenge to aid workers.

A home in the El Cerrito neighborhood of San Diego has solar panels on its roof, Jan. 25, 2016.

San Diego Seeks Proposals For Providing Renewable Energy To Residents

The city of San Diego announced Thursday that it is looking for proposals from organizations on how they might provide residential and commercial electricity from renewable resources.

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the new mayor of Freetown in Sierra Leone, speaks at the 2018 Concordia Annual Summit in New York City. "For decades, there had been no structure, no focused thinking of a strategy for the city," she says. "The way my brain works is with plans. I have to have a to-do list."

Break Rules, Clean Up Gutters: The To-Do List Of A Rookie Mayor In Sierra Leone

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the first female mayor in Freetown in years, is trying to clean up the perpetual mess caused by rain and garbage — a first step in her plan to revive the beleaguered city.

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