Social Issues
Latest Stories
4_3_2014_ap5974853877588201.jpg
ON THE WAY: Afghan election workers use an age-old method to transport ballot boxes and election materials.
4_3_2014_fort-hood-2-98201.jpg
Lt. Gen. Mark Milley (left) and Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, talk to the media near Fort Hood's main gate one day after a soldier opened fire on fellow service members at the Fort Hood military base, killing three people and wounding 16 before committing suicide. (Associated Press)
5d820ea61d16550d500f6a70670005c4.jpg
People walk outside the hospital where Colombian Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez is being treated in Mexico City, Thursday, April 3, 2014. Garcia Marquez was hospitalized with lung and urinary tract infections that are responding to treatment, federal health officials and the author's son said Thursday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
46e1ed751d38550d500f6a706700440e.jpg
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed said he's not giving up on a proposed ballot initiative that would give local governments more leeway to cut public employees' pension plans, while speaking before the Sacramento Press Club Thursday, April 3, 2014, in Sacramento, Calif. Reed and a group of other California mayors had hoped to put the initiative on the November ballot, but lost their court case challenging Attorney General Kamala Harris' description of the measure. Reed said he plans to try to get it on the ballot in 2016.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
e78814231d38550d500f6a7067009eed.jpg
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed said he's not giving up on a proposed ballot initiative that would give local governments more leeway to cut public employees' pension plans, while speaking before the Sacramento Press Club Thursday, April 3, 2014, in Sacramento, Calif. Reed and a group of other California mayors had hoped to put the initiative on the November ballot, but lost their court case challenging Attorney General Kamala Harris' description of the measure. Reed said he plans to try to get it on the ballot in 2016.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
a8892e261d38550d500f6a7067005011.jpg
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed said he's not giving up on a proposed ballot initiative that would give local governments more leeway to cut public employees' pension plans, while speaking before the Sacramento Press Club Thursday, April 3, 2014, in Sacramento, Calif. Reed and a group of other California mayors had hoped to put the initiative on the November ballot, but lost their court case challenging Attorney General Kamala Harris' description of the measure. Reed said he plans to try to get it on the ballot in 2016.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
ea9d6b191d04540d500f6a7067007d7b.jpg
The house where the soldier, Spc. Ivan Lopez grew up is seen in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, Thursday, April 3, 2014. Lopez, opened fire Wednesday on fellow service members at the Fort Hood military base, killing three people and wounding 16 before committing suicide. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
