On a November night in Baltimore, John Berardi was hurrying home with a hot pizza. Moments later, he was bleeding in the street after a teen attacked him with a metal broom. Officers didn't arrive on the scene until nearly an hour later. Berardi's story is a window into the deeper crisis facing Baltimore including a chronically understaffed police department, a juvenile justice system that recycles offenders back onto the streets, and city leadership struggling to keep pace with a wave of children committing adult crimes. Emma Freire reports: (fb)

The U.S. has narrowly opened refugee admission to farmers from South Africa. The Trump administration claims that the farmers have been targeted by the South African government which has failed to protect white Afrikaners from violence and actively attempted to seize their farmland. Carolina Lumetta got the first interview with Afrikaner refugees when they landed in the country: (fb)