Today is World Press Freedom Day — a celebration established over 30 years ago by the United Nations to remind all of us that a free press is essential to a functioning and ethical society and ...

What a difference a month makes. The forecast for how much water will flow this year into Lake Powell, a bellwether reservoir on the Colorado River, was already meager. Now, after a dry April, it’s ...

To save a dying aquifer – or at least their piece of it – a group of roughly 60 farmers in northwest Kansas decided on a self-imposed diet. The move a dozen years ago to voluntarily restrict the water ...

Jules Lion, who was born in Paris in 1810, came to New Orleans as a master lithographer. It was his mastery of daguerreotype, however, that caught the city’s attention. “His introduction of the ...

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Sign up for Verite's free newsletters and get the New Orleans news you need three times a week. The federal government has terminated two grants for African American ...

The number of people held in immigration detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement essentially flatlined this month. The total detained population—counted as beds occupied at midnight on a ...

Collage artist Njaimeh Njie, of Pittsburgh, poses for portraits with some of her art in East Liberty on April 7. (Photo by Vondre Clark/PublicSource) I grew up in Stanton Heights but my family passed ...