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on crime in post-Apartheid South Africa and what's being done about it... Today, she visits the black township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, where young black residents have joined forces with white police to catch criminals. It's an unusual alliance between those who fought to overthrow Apartheid and those who fought to protect it. Soweto and the other black townships surrounding Johannesburg have a murder rate three times higher than that of New York City.

In reaction to a declining domestic marketplace, Avon, the world's largest cosmetic company, and other U.S. businesses have targeted a more global audience. The strategy has definitely worked for Avon, last year they made four-and-a-half billion dollars in profit from sales in 125 countries. One town on the Amazon has no doctor or dentist, but the 3,000 residents are served by six Avon representatives.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House would move ahead with an official impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The move follows a phone call Trump had with Ukraine's new president.

The estimated 7.8 magnitude temblor was felt across the region. Buildings swayed in India's capital.

Fox News's Bret Baier apologized Friday for his report that an indictment was "likely" to result from the FBI investigation of the Clinton Foundation. The gaffe is the latest in a rough year for Fox.

Judith Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, was sentenced to jail Wednesday after she refused to identify a confidential source who leaked the name of CIA agent, Valerie Plame. Time magazine's Matthew Cooper was also slated to go to jail for refusing to name his source, but at the last minute, his source offered him a reprieve.

How will the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's redacted report impact U.S.-Russia relations? David Greene talks to veteran Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner.

Impeachment talk started again among Democrats Thursday with the release of the redacted Mueller report. Many still see that as too politically risky even though they see Trump as unfit for office.

Beyond the glamour of Hollywood and the romance of the Golden Gate Bridge, there is another California -- and it's home to the greatest garden in the world. The 400-mile-long Central Valley supplies fully one-quarter of the food America eats. Now the region faces huge changes. NPR's John McChesney and Richard Gonzales begin a four-part series focusing on the future of California's Central Valley.

Wall Street is reeling from a falling dollar, soaring oil prices and mortgage losses. However, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke tells lawmakers the economy is still humming along reasonably well.