Search results for

A freelance reporter in London tries to sell his boyhood stamp collection and takes a journey through memory and vanished nations.

1: Washington Post reporter LEON DASH won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his eight part series "Rosa Lee's Story." He has turned that into the new book "Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America." It is published by Basic Books. DASH shadowed Rosa Lee's life for four years. The book shows Lee's day to day life in one of Washington D.C.'s poorest neighborhoods. DASH joined the Washington Post in 1966 and served as West Africa bureau chief. In 1984, He joined the Post's investigation's unit in Washington. His previous book, "When Children Want Children," was based on a Post series on teen moms. He lives in Mt. Rainier, Maryland.

The environmental agency has proposed permits that would allow oil companies to continue releasing contaminated wastewater onto the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming. NPR found last year that the EPA has been allowing oil companies to send so much wastewater onto dry land that it was creating raging streams.

Scientists say a pair of condors are likely tending to an egg high up in a California redwood — the first time that's happened there in more than a century. A Yurok wildlife official gives an update.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear says every COVID-19 metric is moving in the right direction, signaling a new phase in the two-year-long pandemic. During a briefing on Monday, Beshear reported just over 9,000 new cases of the virus over the past week, as well as 283 deaths. Those numbers represented the 7th straight week of declines.

A new report from the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce finds the commonwealth has added a lower percentage of jobs than the United States as a whole in the…

Counties in far west Kentucky rank below the statewide average for economic growth since the 2009 recession. That's according to a report released Monday…

A new report finds close to half of American families did not earn enough to cover necessities in 2024. And with prices continuing to rise, there's little sign that's changed.

The Pacific-based aircraft carrier USS George Washington has begun heading toward the Middle East as reports have emerged of mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deployed USS Abraham Lincoln.

The monarch butterfly is widely recognized and widely dispersed across North America and it's in trouble. Federal officials decide soon whether it gets protection under the Endangered Species Act.