The Russian or pro-Russian forces in Slavyansk, eastern Ukraine, have taken several journalists prisoner. One is an American.

The heat in Texas prisons is deadly, and that makes it cruel and unusual punishment.

Turkish PM Erdogan has apologized, in a way, for the killing of a million Armenians.

He did not use the term "genocide" but at least recognizes that the killing was wrong. It is a step forward.

This is not a matter of personal blame. I expect that none of the people who decided how Turkey would treat the Armenians is still alive today. The point is that states need to acknowledge their wrongs in order to avoid repeating them.

A prominent Pakistani TV journalist was shot and survived. He and his TV station say the country's intelligence agency tried to assassinate him.

That agency has a history of kidnaping, torturing and killing reporters.

A Texas family won a 3 million dollar judgment against frackers.

It is crucial to defeat their secrecy about their operations. The reason companies say they want secrecy is to keep secrets from other companies. That argument never justifies putting the public interest at risk.