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Festival volunteer Erin Petrey pours nonalcoholic martinis during bartender Derek Brown's master class at the Mindful Drinking Fest in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21.

This drinks festival doesn't have alcohol. That's why hundreds of people came

One of the hottest tickets in Washington, D.C., was to a festival that was all about drinking and having fun — but not about booze.

Avon Twitty's file folders contain his paper trail of grievances over the years while inside the Communications Management Unit at Terre Haute.

'Guantanamo North': Inside Secretive U.S. Prisons

Reports about what life is like inside the military prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay are not uncommon. But very little is reported about two units for convicted terrorists and other inmates who get 24-hour surveillance, right here in the U.S.

Mir, a Pakistani man who used to live in Xinjiang, China, clutches the hands of his two daughters. Since Chinese authorities detained his wife, he's been raising their two girls alone. "My mind just won't work," he says. "I sound incoherent, I can't think, I even forget what to say in my prayers."

'My Family Has Been Broken': Pakistanis Fear For Uighur Wives Held In China

Rights groups estimate as many as 1 million Uighurs are detained in Chinese camps, with the aim of stripping away their ethnic identity, suppressing their Muslim faith and ensuring loyalty to China.

Wajahat Malik, right, and a Pakistan Navy seaman navigate the Indus River. Malik organized a 40-day expedition down the 2,000-mile river to document "the peoples, the cultures, the biodiversity and just whatever comes our way," he says — including the impact of climate change and pollution.

Floating in a rubber dinghy, a filmmaker documents the Indus River's water woes

Pakistani filmmaker Wajahat Malik pulled together an expedition to raft down the 2,000-mile river. He hopes to reconnect people with the Indus, which is being threatened by overuse and climate change.

Paul Manafort listens to Rick Gates testifying on Tuesday.

Rick Gates Has Told Many Lies. On Tuesday, Manafort's Defense Seized On Them

Rick Gates returned to the witness stand Tuesday. Paul Manafort's defense lawyer asked him about his admitted lying, cheating and embezzlement in an effort to damage his credibility as a witness.

Virginia's Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin, pictured on the campaign trail, speaks with now Lt. Gov.-elect Winsome Sears after a rally in Fredericksburg, Va., Oct. 30, 2021. Youngkin and Sears, both Republicans, won election on Nov. 2, and will be sworn into office Jan. 15, 2022.

Virginia's first Black woman lieutenant governor says we need to move on from slavery

Winsome Sears, a Republican, will be sworn into office Saturday in Virginia alongside Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin. Sears ran, in part, on the idea that the country's racial reckoning has gone too far.

Tony Bennett performs at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City on Sept. 18, 2011.

Tony Bennett on his first job, Sinatra's advice and San Francisco

The legendary crooner, who died July 21, told Terry Gross in 1991 he never got tired of singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco": "I'm very grateful for that song."

A view of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 5.

Supreme Court dissents and rejoinders, with respect and disrespect

Feelings seem raw at the court, certainly for the court's three liberal justices, who were on the losing end of some of the court's biggest cases this term, but also for the conservatives.

Maxine Toler, who lives near Los Angeles, has been asking neighbors why they do or do not want the vaccine. But it's the health inequities of today, not the infamous "Tuskegee Study," that Toler hears about when she talks to Black friends and neighbors about the COVID-19 vaccine.

Stop Blaming Tuskegee, Critics Say. It's Not An 'Excuse' For Current Medical Racism

The Tuskegee syphilis study is often cited as a reason why Black Americans might hesitate on the COVID-19 vaccine. But many say it's current racism in health care and Tuskegee is used as an excuse.

Caitlyn Houston kisses her seven-week-old daughter, Parker, as they wait in the ER for a hospital bed to open up on Dec. 7 at Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. "There's so many kids in here that they have to take the ones that are really bad," Houston said.

Children's hospitals are struggling to cope with a surge of respiratory illness

Pediatric cases of RSV and flu have sent families crowding into ERs, as health systems struggle with staff shortages. In Michigan, only 9 out of more than 130 hospitals have a pediatric ICU.

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