11.12.13
Surrounded by rubble, children swarm around a public well in this storm-ravaged city, where bodies are still lying in the streets days after a deadly typhoon struck.
The children douse themselves with water and fill plastic cups and jugs.
"Even though we're not sure that it is clean and safe," Roselda Sumapit said, "we still drink it, because we need to survive."
11.13.13
A Newtown, Connecticut, police officer haunted by the horrific images of the ma** shooting at an elementary school there said Monday that he could lose his job after being diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder.
Thomas Bean, one of the first officers to respond to the December 14 shooting that left 26 dead, including 20 children, told CNN that he has contemplated suicide, continues to have flashbacks, and is left crying some nights by memories of the bloodshed.
11.14.13
Congressional Democrats are upping the pressure on President Barack Obama to fix what's ailing his signature health care initiative with some in the party warning they may be forced to back a House Republican proposal if the White House doesn't offer an alternative by week's end.
11.15.13
As cadaver crews collected more bodies off of streets and from underneath rubble in the Philippines Friday, the national disaster agency raised the d**h toll in the wake Typhoon Haiyan to 3,621.
The number of those injured stood at 12,165, state news agency PNA reported, after the storm ripped up a group of the nation's islands with winds more than three times stronger than those of Hurricane Katrina. At least 1,140 individuals are officially missing