An honest, unvarnished review of the week's global news stories. BBC world affairs editor John Simpson and experts from across the world ditch the spin and get to the news.

A judge set bail for Conroy Simpson at $250,000 after Schenectady police charged him with fleeing a crash that killed Zion Delaney. Schenectady police said they charged a man with leaving the ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - BART service between the Lake Merritt and Coliseum stations has been restored after it was temporarily stopped following a "major medical emergency," the transit agency said ...

Michael Lin, a UC Berkeley architecture graduate, was one of several people who applied to a program in which BART gifted one of its cars from the retired fleet. On March 13, Number 1234 was ...

Jessica Simpson is opening up about her shocking heartbreak. The singer, 44, got candid about writing her new EP “Nashville Canyon, Part 1” amid her split from husband Eric Johnson after 10 ...

thoughtfully traces the island’s journey from an impoverished fishing community during the Second World War through its golden age as a hippie enclave in the ’70s, continuing onward to the ...

Former GOP Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a political legend whose quick wit bridged partisan gaps in the years before today's political acrimony, has died. He was 93. Simpson died early Friday ...

Jessica Simpson is opening up about writing her EP Nashville Canyon, Part 1 in the midst of her separation from Eric Johnson. “I was out in Nashville and I had my heart wide open, I was in a ...

Jessica Simpson has tapped back into her music roots and is shedding some light on her "broken" heart from her split with Eric Johnson. Simpson performed at the Luck Reunion music festival in ...

Alan Simpson, the former three-term U.S. senator from Wyoming known for his humor, plain-speech and willingness to work through partisan differences, died in hospice care in Cody, Wyoming. He was 93 ...

Jessica Simpson’s world was turned “upside down” when she broke up with her estranged husband Eric Johnson. The “With You” singer reflected on her new chapter as a “very single lady ...

Simpson played a major role in immigration reform, co-sponsoring the bill that provided a path to legal residency for thousands of people in the United States. With his boyhood friend Norman ...