Adam Janos (@AdamTJanos)
George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old multiracial Hispanic American, is officially going on trial.
Charged with the fatal shooting of 17-year-old African-American Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, the neighborhood watchman's altercation with the youth has become a lightning rod story for race relations, gun control, and Stand Your Ground laws in America.
As of Monday, the Obama administration has decided to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning after pill to minors, dropping an earlier appeal to a judge's order allowing it.
Manu Ginobili, 35 year old shooting guard for the San Antonio Spurs, is not the player he once was. But the future is bright for Latino ballers, with the following players showing promise on other teams.
Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old ex-employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) who leaked details of the U.S. secret surveillance operation PRISM to the Guardian, is missing in Hong Kong after checking out of the Mira hotel Monday at noon.
Coaches like the Miami Heat’s Erik Spoelstra are a rare breed. Here's why.
A building in center-city Philadelphia (i.e. downtown) collapsed during demolition Wednesday morning, killing six people and injuring thirteen more. City first responders worked through the night and into Thursday looking for people through the rubble before finally clearing the site in the afternoon.
Major League Baseball will seek to suspend up to 20 players connected to a performing-enhancing drug (PED) clinic in the Miami area, including Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun, possibly within the next few weeks, according to sources for ESPN. The suspensions - which would purportedly range from 50 to 100 games, according to MLB's current drug testing policy - would represent the largest PED scandal in American sports history.
The Oscar Pistorius murder trial is adjourned.
After his first procedural hearing since bail was set in February, the South African track star was let off until August, during which time prosecutors will build their case.
Pope Francis and the Vatican asked Catholics worldwide to join the Holy See on Sunday, June 2nd between 5-6 PM Rome time (11 AM - 12 PM EDT) in Eucharistic adoration (ie praying before a consecrated communion host). It was the first worldwide holy hour ever called.
Army and Navy. Hatfields and McCoys. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.
The world loves a good rivalry, and baseball's American League may be the breeding ground for a new one: Miguel Cabrera, third baseman for the Detroit Tigers vs. Mike Trout, center fielder for the Los Angeles Angels.
Two nationwide street gangs in Honduras - Calle 18 and Mara Salvatrucha - called for a peace and immediate end to violence in the streets of the Central American country. The deal, which was ushered in by a local bishop, was first announced by a member of Mara Salvatrucha, from a prison in San Pedro Sula, a city in the north of the country. Calle 18's announcement came moments later.
We’ve seen it movies, ever since we were kids: robots, rising up against the man who created them, destroying civilization with the swift brutality that’s only possible for something without a beating heart. Now, life is imitating science-fiction as the United Nations Human Rights Council debated on Thursday the role killer robots (aka lethal autonomous robotic weapons) have in the future of warfare.
Puerto Rico’s governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla signed a measure into law that criminalizes employer discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation.
American Novelist John Dos Passos once said that "accidents will happen in the best regulated families." For one unfortunate family in Argentina, lighting struck twice in a tragic double-dose.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden met with leaders of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago for an intense three-hour trade talk that resulted in the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) between the United States and the fifteen nations that Caricom consists of.
