Scott Neuman appears in the following:
Chinese Dissidents Executed For Their Organs
Friday, November 28, 2014
Writer and investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann alleges that Chinese dissidents are routinely rounded up and executed so that doctors can harvest their organs for transplantation.
Gutmann joins Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd to discuss the findings in his book, “The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and ...
America's Black Friday Craziness Has Crossed The Pond
Friday, November 28, 2014
Black Friday is in full swing in U.S. stores and online, with shoppers across the country hoping to snatch up Christmas bargains.
The National Retail Federation forecasts a 4.1 percent increase in holiday sales over the same period last year, bringing the total to $616.9 billion. It would be the ...
Video Of Woman Dancing On Tehran's Subway Goes Viral
Friday, November 28, 2014
A video of an Iranian woman defying the country's laws by dancing in a Tehran's subway train has gone viral on the Internet in recent days.
The unidentified woman, who also loses her hijab head covering during the dance, gyrates wildly to a song the British pop group Little Mix ...
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Kid Stuff And Leftover Outtakes
Friday, November 28, 2014
It's a holiday weekend for many of us, but we've still got a fresh episode — and a sparkly new panelist in the fourth chair: Guy Raz, host of NPR's TED Radio Hour. When we asked Guy about coming on the show, we learned that pop-culture-wise, he — like our ...
Experts Predict Low Oil Prices Through Next Year
Friday, November 28, 2014
OPEC's decision not to cut production continues to reverberate through global oil markets, with the price of Europe's benchmark Brent crude falling to a four-year low today — bad news for petroleum exporters in the Middle East and Russia, but good news for nearly everyone else.
Brent crude oil ...
Thailand Blocks Access To Damaging Human Rights Report
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Thailand's military junta has apparently blocked domestic access to a scathing new report from U.S.-based Human Rights Watch which describes the country as having fallen into an "apparently bottomless pit" since Army Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha seized power six months ago.
The Bangkok Post reports that clicking on the ...
WTO Members Approve Historic Trade Deal
Thursday, November 27, 2014
The World Trade Organization has received the unanimous backing of its 160 member nations for a first-ever multilateral trade deal, an agreement that has been years in the making and that the organization claims could add $1 trillion annually to global commerce.
India had been a sticking point on the ...
Indian Investigators Deny Village Girls Were Raped, Murdered
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Two teenagers who were found hanging from a tree outside a village in northern India in May in an apparent rape-and-murder may have taken their own lives, Indian officials now say.
The two girls, in their early teens, were first reported to be sisters and later cousins. They ...
Attacks In The Afghan Capital Kill 5
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Updated at 5:05 p.m. ET
At least five people are dead in the Afghan capital, Kabul, after after a suicide bombing attack on a British embassy vehicle. A guesthouse run by a foreign aid agency in the diplomatic area of the city also came under attack.
The BBC says ...
Oil Prices Tumble After OPEC Holds Firm On Output
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Update at 5:50 p.m. ET
OPEC oil ministers have agreed to keep production levels steady, virtually ensuring continued low prices at the gas pump and lower costs for jet fuel that could translate into cheaper air-ticket prices.
Reuters reports: "Benchmark Brent futures settled at $72.58 a barrel, down $5.17, after ...
Holiday Travel Snarls Look To Be Easing
Thursday, November 27, 2014
The weather is still wreaking havoc for Americans still traveling today in planes, trains and automobiles, but for the most part, the situation has improved dramatically as people crisscross the country making their way to Thanksgiving gatherings with family and friends.
AAA estimates that 46 million Americans will travel ...
British Mystery Novelist P.D. James Dies At 94
Thursday, November 27, 2014
British mystery and crime novelist P.D. James, whose best-known works featured poet and Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh as a protagonist, has died at age 94, her publisher says.
Phyllis Dorothy James, a baroness and award-winning writer of such books as Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower and The ...
Ferguson Timeline: Grief, Anger And Tension
Monday, November 24, 2014
The following lists significant events leading up to Monday's announcement by a grand jury not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Aug. 9: Brown is shot by Wilson around noon local time on Canfield Drive in Ferguson, Mo., just outside ...
White House Acknowledges Over-Counting Obamacare Signups
Thursday, November 20, 2014
The White House acknowledged today that it overreported the number of signups under the Affordable Care Act by nearly 400,000 people.
Some people with separate medical and dental plans were counted twice, leading the administration to state erroneously that more than 7 million had enrolled in coverage under ACA, instead ...
So What Is An 'Executive Action' Anyway?
Thursday, November 20, 2014
You can read here about President Obama's executive action on immigration. Or here, a story about his executive order.
Although commonly conflated in the media, the two terms aren't exactly interchangeable.
In short ...
A presidential executive order "is a directive issued to federal agencies, department heads, ...
Swedish Appeals Court Upholds Detention Order For Julian Assange
Thursday, November 20, 2014
An appeals court in Sweden has upheld a detention order in connection with sex assault accusations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since seeking refuge there more than two years ago.
The Svea Court of Appeals in Stockholm affirmed a lower ...
Buffalo, Parts Of Upper Midwest Brace For More Snow
Thursday, November 20, 2014
The good people of Buffalo are certainly no strangers to snow — but this week has put even the city's most seasoned winter veterans to the test.
The latest from the National Weather Service is that parts of western New York state could get another 3 feet of lake-effect ...
Producer Of 'Knight Rider' And 'Battlestar Galactica' Dies At 77
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Glen A. Larson, who produced some of the most iconic television shows of the '70s and '80s – including the Six Million Dollar Man, Battlestar Galactica, Magnum, P.I. and Knight Rider, died Friday at age 77.
The Los Angeles Times quotes the producer's son, James, as saying he died at ...
Clearing Of MH17 Debris Begins In Eastern Ukraine
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Dutch investigators have begun clearing the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, four months after the Boeing 777 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 289 aboard in an incident that sparked international outrage against separatists blamed for the attack.
A recovery team working in the self-declared Donetsk People's ...
Nigerian Army Retakes Chibok, Home Of Kidnapped Schoolgirls
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Nigeria's army says it has recaptured the northeastern town of Chibok from Boko Haram militants who claimed to have seized it the day before, six months after the rebels abducted hundreds of schoolgirls from the city.
Nigerian army spokesman Brig. Gen. Olajide Olaleye told the Associated Press that "Chibok is ...