Hannah Mccarthy

A man was convicted by a US jury on Monday of attempted murder in the shootings of three Palestinian university students, including one with Irish citizenship, in Burlington, Vermont, in November 2023. Irish-Palestinian student Hisham Awartani was paralys... See more

Marabou storks circle the smoke-filled sky as a 12-year-old boy returns from the top of a hill of smouldering waste carrying plastic sheets he gathered at Dandora, a sprawling 30-acre dumpsite in the eastern suburbs of Nairobi. Casey says that for the pas... See more

Civics 101 host Hannah McCarthy welcomed Harvard historian and author Jill Lepore during a recent Writers on a New England Stage event to discuss her book "These Truths: A History of the United States." The book confronts a vital question: Has the nation,... See more

Missy, who is 43, has lived her whole life in the same house in San Miguel del Padrón, a borough of eastern Havana, but “many generations have left the country.” Cuba faced an inflationary spiral at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, which triggered an e... See more

Sitting on a stoop in old Havana, Marta says her daughter, who lives in Germany, will not return to Cuba. “She has issues with the government,” the 75-year-old says. “I’m all alone. I haven’t seen my daughter or my granddaughters in two years.” Marta is o... See more