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'Prisoner' Is An Intimate Portrait Of One Journalist's Captivity In Iran

Writer Jason Rezaian is unsparingly personal throughout the telling of his arrest, imprisonment and trial, writing of his childhood, family, visits with his wife — and fears and insecurities.

President Trump has won over religious conservatives with promises of Supreme Court nominees, hard-line support for Israel and a host of other items.

Why Trump Continues To Forge An Unlikely Bond With Religious Conservatives

It is not that conservative evangelicals think Trump is one of them, but rather that they believe he is being used by God. As the Bible says, "By their fruits ye shall know them." (Matthew 7:20)

To Get To College, It Helps Black Students To Have A Black Teacher Early On

New research shows that black teachers have a much stronger effect on black students than previously thought.

Students sit in class at Jamia Muhammadia, a madrassa in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.

Pakistan Wants To Reform Madrassas. Experts Advise Fixing Public Education First

The government hopes to reform seminaries, which are often seen as places where students are indoctrinated with extreme interpretations of Islam. Experts argue the entire education system must change.

Political activist Angela Davis speaks onstage at the National Museum Of African American History and Culture last year in Washington, D.C.

Civil Rights Award Rescinded From Angela Davis After Jewish Community Objections

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute planned to honor the activist at a February event. It now says her statements and public record do not "meet all of the criteria on which the award is based."

People wait outside the port of entry at Tornillo, Texas, in June 2018. Beyond them is one of the tents that were put up to house unaccompanied migrant children.

Tent City Housing Migrant Children To Close As Kids Are Released To Sponsors

The Department of Health and Human Services confirms the population at Tornillo, Texas, is down from nearly 3,000 adolescents last month to about 1,500. The camp is due to close at the end of January.

Officials remove the linen-wrapped mummy of King Tutankhamun from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor in 2007. New radar scans show that other rooms may be hidden behind the tomb's walls.

High Chance That 2 Rooms Are Hidden Behind King Tut's Tomb, Egypt Says

One of the hidden chambers found in a new scanning project may be the tomb of Queen Nefertiti, who died in the 14th century B.C.

Children and workers seen at a tent encampment in June near the Tornillo Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas.

Almost 15,000 Migrant Children Now Held At Nearly Full Shelters

With government shelters across the country nearing capacity, officials are considering a range of options from releasing the children more quickly to building more tent cities.

Medicare's new program will alter a year's worth of payments to 14,959 skilled nursing facilities across the U.S., based on how often in the past fiscal year their residents ended up back in hospitals within 30 days of leaving.

Medicare To Cut Payments To Nursing Homes Whose Patients End Up Back In The Hospital

Medicare's incentive program to discourage nursing homes from discharging patients too quickly will also give bonuses to facilities that have fewer rehospitalizations.

In this Nov. 15, 2018 photo provided by Ivan Pierre Aguirre, migrant teens are led in a line inside the Tornillo detention camp holding more than 2,300 migrant teens in Tornillo, Texas.

US Waived FBI Checks On Staff At Growing Teen Migrant Camp

The Trump administration has put the safety of thousands of teens at a migrant detention camp at risk by waiving FBI fingerprint checks for their caregivers and short-staffing mental health workers, according to an Associated Press investigation and a new federal watchdog report.

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