Most Shared Stories Tagged: Africa

Conflict & Justice

Geo answer

For today's geo quiz we asked whether the number of immigrants to the US is going up or down, and where most of them come from. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets the answer from William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington. He says at least half of the people coming to the United States are from Latin America...and that newly released census numbers for 2007 indicate a slowdown in immigration.


Geo answer

Today's answer is Stuttgart, Germany. It's where the U.S. military has headquartered its new Africa command center - AFRICOM.

Science, Tech & Environment

The Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded in part to two French researchers who discovered the HIV virus. But another influential scientist in the field - an American - was left out. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with science journalist Jon Cohen.