Officials in New York state announced charges in the 1984 rape and murder of a Long Island teenager after, they said, the suspect’s DNA was recovered from a discarded straw.
AFP’s Roberto Schmidt photographs a large ice sculpture of the word “Democracy” after it was placed on the National Mall near the US Capitol in Washington, DC.
Nora Ligorano, one of the artists, says: “We do this work to spark thought and provoke awareness... and hopefully take some action"
NEW: I talked to scholars who study political contagion about how America’s freefall could affect the rest of the world. They are… concerned. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
