Mary Wyant spent years as a professional artist. But after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she slowly became unable to paint.
She painted this self-portrait in the midst of her frustration and confusion, when the only thing she truly knew was her own self.
120,000 victims of the Syrian conflict are packed into U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees tents or “caravan” trailer units at the Zaatari refugee camp in Northern Jordan.
One man waiting outside the UNHCR administrative gate attempted to tell anyone and everyone who passed through about his grievances at the camp. In a sign of desperation, he offered to light himself on fire in front of our camera to protest his living conditions. We declined his offer. He was immediately escorted back to the entrance gate by a security officer where the man continued to look for anyone who would listen.
There are more Syrian refugees in Zaatari than any other camp in the world.
Learn more from NewsHour Foreign Editor Justin Kenny’s report here.
The Bluths are coming back! We’re ready…are you?
What better way to prepare for their arrival than quizzing yourself on the greatest and most absurd moments from “Arrested Development”?
“I’m really struggling here. I’m having a hard time getting out of bed, I’m having a hard time sleeping because this one incident that I have relived through investigation, it’s never died in my mind. I go to sleep and I think about this, everything reminds me about it.”
-Former Airman 1st Class Jessica Hinves grew up in a military family. When she turned 25, she left her job at a vineyard in east Texas and acted on her sense of duty to serve. She joined the Air Force and she had every intention of having a lifelong military career.
But two days before completing a round of training, she says she was raped by a fellow airman. To her surprise, her case was never brought to court. Her career was cut short due to the post traumatic stress disorder that followed her ordeal.
“Our prayers are with the people of Oklahoma and we will back up those prayers with deeds as long as it takes.”
-President Obama made a statement earlier on the tornado that ripped through Oklahoma.
“I hadn’t realized I’d learned to talk with a weightless tongue.”
-Commander Chris Hadfield spoke earlier today from Houston during his first press conference since returning to Earth.
Hadfield said that symptoms of adapting to Earth after four months of weightlessness on the International Space Station include dizziness, a sore body and neck and difficulty walking and exercising. He has to sit down while taking a shower so he doesn’t faint, and with no callouses on his hands and feet, walks around like “walking on hot coals.”
During the press conference, he wore a G-suit underneath his clothing to coax the blood back up to his head. Learn more about his adjustment from space to Earth here.
Photos above taken by NewsHour’s Cat Wise (how apropos!)
At the Internet Cat Video Festival in Oakland, Calif., around 6,000 people gathered on a late spring afternoon to celebrate all things feline and to watch nearly 70 minutes of hilarious cat web videos projected on a 10-story building after the sun went down.
The festival is the brain-child of Scott Stulen who is project director at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Last summer, Stulen and his colleagues posted a request for people to nominate their favorite cat web videos. They received 10,000 submissions from all over the world, and 79 were selected to be shown at a festival at the museum.
“There were total massacres…People were tortured, burned, shot, stabbed by soldiers. They were exterminating entire communities. You can’t say that’s not genocide.”
-Jose Cortez, an Ixil civil war survivor who runs a small NGO that aids fellow survivors, on the ongoing genocide trial in Guatemala.
Using forensic science, investigators have found compelling evidence that thousands of innocent indigenous Ixil Mayans were the target of extermination in Guatemala during the 1980s, a discovery that is directly affecting the genocide trial of former leader Efrain Rios Montt.
At the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in Bronx, NY a medical procedure cost $38k. That same procedure cost $637k at the Stanford Hospital in Stanford, CA.
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