Luis Tato - AFP / Getty Images At Least 60 Christians Kidnapped at Gunpoint in Nigeria As Christians around the world were worshiping in church, one congregation in Nigeria was about to be attacked by gunmen. By Amanda Thomason November 23, 2021
Saul Loeb - AFP / Getty Images Trump Celebrates as Country Bans Twitter, Says More Should Do the Same 'Perhaps I should have done it while I was President,' Trump said, referring to regulations against social media providers. By Dillon Burroughs June 9, 2021
Kayode Adewumi / Facebook screen shot 10-Year-Old Who Used to Be Homeless Becomes National Chess Master He's far from the youngest chess master - he comes in at number 28 - but he's set his sights on a new goal: To become the world's youngest grandmaster. By Amanda Thomason May 13, 2021
Rich Pedroncelli / AP Report: California Handed Out Over $11 Billion in Virus Benefits to Criminal Rings 'As millions of Californians applied for help, international and national criminal rings were at work behind the scenes,' an official said. By The Associated Press January 25, 2021
Sunday Alamba / AP Schoolboys Returned After Week of Captivity at Hands of Boko Haram Insurgents Over 300 Nigerian schoolboys were returned a week after being kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents. By The Associated Press December 18, 2020
Kola Sulaimon / AFP via Getty ImagesOp-Ed Itxu Díaz: 600 Black Children Who Don't Matter to Anyone 'The country is watered with the blood of Christian martyrs and it’s time for them to stop feeling abandoned by the free world.' By Itxu Díaz December 17, 2020
Sunday Alamba / AP Nigerian Boy Kidnapped by Islamic Terrorists Opens Up About Daring Escape Usama Aminu is one of the hundreds of students abducted by militants believed to be associated with the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram. By The Associated Press December 17, 2020
Abdullatif Yusuf / AP Boko Haram Abducts Hundreds of Children Amid Growing Threat of Islamist Violence Boko Haram extremists kidnapped over 300 students from a school in northern Nigeria. By The Associated Press December 15, 2020
Audu Marte / AFP via Getty Images Boko Haram Insurgents Kill Over 100 in 'Barbaric' Scorched-Earth Massacre Boko Haram insurgents killed 110 in an attack on a Nigerian farm village. By Kaylee Greenlee December 3, 2020
James O'Donoghue / TwitterCommentary Explosion That Rocked City Was So Powerful, Scientists Thought It Was a Meteor Impact 'Most of the destruction occurs on top and roof/ceilings of the buildings,' one report said. By C. Douglas Golden November 27, 2020