FULL STORY By Lila King, CNN March 5, 2010 11:58 a.m. EST Time was, if you wanted to make a time-lapse film, first you had to build a machine. In the late 1920s, John Ott was an American high school student with a passion for photography and a lot of time on his hands. He […]

  By Madison Park, CNN February 23, 2010 10:47 a.m. EST (CNN) — Last spring, U.S. doctors’ offices were barraged with phone calls and worried patients packed into hospitals. Schools closed. Face masks and Tamiflu were suddenly in short supply. The country verged on an H1N1 panic. The new flu virus, first widely reported in […]

  By Matt Smith, CNN February 24, 2010 — Updated 2004 GMT (0404 HKT)   (CNN) — The Obama administration has called for a freeze on government programs other than defense and entitlements, but why should the Pentagon be excluded? That’s the position of CNN iReporters Egberto Willies and Adriana Maxwell, both of whom see […]

(CNN) — The decision to award President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to "strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" appears to have left some in the United States divided over whether intangible achievements are worthy of such an esteemed award.  . . . . . . For others, it’s not about […]

Veterans have fought for the country without asking why. When they come home, it is shameful the way they are treated and the support they get. CNN created an iReport.com project to interview these heroes. Katie Hawkins-Gaar, an Associate Producer at CNN presents this telling article. Click here for the full CNN article. In Kingwood, […]

  From Rolling Stone: In the days that followed, news channels, TV specials, feature magazines and front pages tried to understand what happened. Not so much the events of Jackson’s death – though there was confusion surrounding that – but rather the nature of his life and legacy. He was a man with a complicated […]

  CNN iReporter Egberto Willies     of Kingwood, Texas, summed up the conflicting feelings Jackson engendered among his admirers: "I grew up on Michael Jackson," Willies said in a video post on iReport.com. "I loved Michael Jackson. I hated Michael Jackson. I admired Michael Jackson. I was ashamed of Michael Jackson. I was sorry for Michael […]

Others agree, saying Sotomayor is simply a reflection of the modern United States. “As a woman and Hispanic, she brings a necessary flavor to the court that reflects what America is,” said Egberto Willies of Kingwood, Texas. “She is the new face of America,” added Jimmy Deol of Toronto, Canada. “She’s a woman, she’s of […]