How Prison Shaped a Woman’s Career Path
All this week, WBHM is exploring challenges people confront after being released from Alabama’s prisons. One struggle former inmates face is what to do with their lives once they are released.
For 10 years of her adult life, Jamie Faust was in and out of county jail and federal prison. In 2012 she entered Julia Tutwiler’s Prison for Women as an HIV positive inmate. At the time, HIV inmates were segregated from the general population.
She tells WBHM’s Sarah Delia that living with HIV in prison wasn’t easy, but the experience pushed her to follow a career path she might not have otherwise.
Israel’s military says aid airdrops will begin in Gaza as hunger grows
Israel's military said the airdrops would begin Saturday night in Gaza, after mounting accounts of starvation-related deaths. Israeli officials also said humanitarian corridors will be established.
Taiwanese political gridlock endures as China-friendly party survives recall vote
A months-long recall effort to oust lawmakers considered pro-Chinese has failed in the self-governing island's legislature.
‘Scotland is already great.’ Protesters troll Trump on his golfing trip
The U.S. president is spending a long weekend in his late mother's birth country of Scotland. There, he's been confronted by protesters waving photos of Jeffrey Epstein.
Southwest aircraft takes a dive to avoid midair collision
The Southwest Boeing 737 dropped almost 500 feet to avoid another aircraft.
Remembering David Nabarro: ‘a great champion of global health and health equity’
That's how the head of the World Health Organization paid tribute to Nabarro's lifelong public health leadership. A physician, Nabarro was a leading voice in the effort to quash the COVID-19 pandemic.
PEPFAR escaped the rescission ax. But where does it stand?
Founded by George W. Bush, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief was taken out of the list of agencies that lost previously pledged funds. But its future is far from certain.