Amy Silverstein

GlobalPost

Amy Silverstein is a GlobalPost breaking news writer and a freelance reporter from Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Reuters, LA Weekly, Mother Jones, The Daily Climate and CNN.com. She was named a finalist for a Livingston Award in 2012.

McDonald’s: Pink slime won’t be used in hamburger meat

May 13, 2017Lifestyle

McDonald’s Big Macs will no longer contain ammonium hydroxide or “pink slime.”

Groundhog Day 2012: Woodchuck rescuer prepares for big day

May 13, 2017Lifestyle

Asian factories hurt by Europe debt crisis

May 13, 2017Business, Finance & Economics

South Korean detained for Kim Jong Il Twitter message

May 13, 2017Politics

Canned lard safe to eat after 64 years

May 13, 2017Lifestyle

Kolkata Book Fair bows to threats, cancels author Taslima Nasreen’s book launch

May 13, 2017Lifestyle

Author Taslima Nasreen’s launch at the Kolkata Book Fair is cancelled after the fair organizers received threats from Muslim leaders.

Ramarley Graham, unarmed Bronx teen, killed by NYPD

May 13, 2017Agence France-Presse

Police shot the teenager during a drug bust.

Sierra Club took $26 million from natural gas industry

May 13, 2017Lifestyle

The club says it stopped accepting the funds in 2010.

China cut internet and phone access in Tibet

May 13, 2017Agence France-Presse

Protests in Tibet lead to loss of internet.

Tea Party says green projects are a United Nations plot

May 13, 2017Lifestyle

Tea Party activists protest efforts to reduce pollution. Newt Gingrich supports their concerns.