When it comes to the politics of deeply divided places and people, there is no such thing as an easy or a straightforward conversation. Every conversation is complex and very challenging and often involves extreme levels of violence. I come from the central highlands of Sri Lanka which was not where the island's 30-year civil war happened.The war happened in northern and eastern Sri Lanka regions with a Tamil majority. Coming from the Singhala community, the country's ethnic majority, war to me in my young ...

And good evening. We come on the air tonight from Texas's Hill Country. Just below us is the Guadalupe River and you can see the destruction it carved out in parts of central Texas.Down there is where the river stands tonight. And we wanted to show you how high it rose, more than 30 feet, even higher from where we are broadcasting live tonight, wiping out everything in its way. And today we were with rescuers digging into mangled cars caked in mud along river banks.Crews setting out on airboats and diving i ...

[Music] Hello everyone. How do you decide that you've done a good job. I used to work in uh aviation operations and I had a really solid set of metrics that told me I was doing a good job.If I made a flight plan that was safe, legal, no one died and got pe people from A to B with the lowest possible cost and resource used. I knew that I was doing a good job. That made me really confident to be questioned.And in fact, in that industry, it's really common to get a colleague to doublech checkck your work. It's ...

The most common phrase I hear at school assemblies or family gathering is our children are our future. But what happens if that future becomes threatened from within. What if the very children we are upholding are the ones slaughtering our futures instead because of a justice system unable to hold them accountable.If the juvenile system doesn't change, we're not protecting the future. We're sentencing it. I remember hearing about a case not too long ago.An average teenage boy, ordinary and plain, seen by no ...

As more than 2,000 protests are set to begin against the president's agenda in just hours, the Trump administration says it wants the National Guard to play an even bigger role in enforcing that agenda. Trump's borders are Tom Holman tells the Washington Post, quote, "They can't make immigration arrests, but they can certainly augment for security, transportation, infrastructure, and intelligence." And Holman says he's open to using the guard to respond to protests if other cities quote go down the same pat ...

Contentious moments on Capitol Hill today as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsath faced questions about the Marines deployed to Los Angeles over immigration protests. Are the Marines in Los Angeles ordered to protect property by any means necessary. Sir, I would say the ICE officers and police officers being attacked is not political theater.Um, the National Guard Just Yes or no. Just yes or no. The National Guard and Marines have the full authority to protect federal ICE agents or agents and federal buildings ...