Molly Hennessy-Fiske
Molly Hennessy-Fiske is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, where she has spent eight years covering metro, national, business and foreign news, including reporting rotations in Afghanistan, Egypt and Iraq. She won an Overseas Press Club award in 2015, a DART award from Columbia University in 2014, was a finalist for the Livingston Awards and Casey Medal and won state awards for her work in California, Florida, New York and North Carolina. She completed a Thomson Reuters fellowship in Lebanon in 2006 and a Pew Fellowship reporting from Mexico in 2004. She has reported for newspapers in Boston, Miami, Raleigh, Schenectady, Syracuse, Washington and West Palm Beach. Hennessy-Fiske grew up in Upstate New York before attending Harvard College, graduating with a bachelor's degree in social studies in 1999. She is currently Houston bureau chief.
Recent Articles
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Egyptian officials arrest crew members after smuggler's boat capsizes off Mediterranean coast, killing dozens
Four people arrested Thursday in connection with a boat that capsized off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, killing dozens of migrants, face charges of human trafficking and manslaughter, officials said. Officials said those arrested were crew members on a boat carrying migrants trying to reach Europe....
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U.N. suspends aid deliveries to Syria after deadly attack on humanitarian convoy
The United Nations suspended humanitarian aid deliveries to Syria after an attack killed 21 civilians unloading supplies west of embattled Aleppo at the end of the weeklong cease-fire, officials said Tuesday. The attack Monday night struck 18 of 31 trucks in an aid convoy in rural Urem al-Kubra,...
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Syria's military declares end of cease-fire with rebels; aid convoy is shelled
Syria’s military on Monday declared an end to the week-long cease-fire brokered by U.S. and Russian officials, blaming opposition fighters for repeated violations and launching attacks on rebel-held areas. Before the military’s announcement, opposition fighters and activists also had accused the government...
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3 brothers in south Texas, one a Border Patrol agent, charged in drug cartel-linked murder case
Joel Luna seemed an ideal Border Patrol hire: south Texas native, high school ROTC standout, Army combat veteran. Luna worked out of a border checkpoint about 100 miles north of Mexico in Hebbronville, patrolling ranch land frequented by smugglers of humans and drugs. The covert work drew upon...
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Record-tying magnitude 5.6 quake in Oklahoma oil country rattles Midwest
Oklahoma regulators ordered more than three dozen oil and gas wastewater disposal wells to shut down after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake — matching the strongest ever to hit Oklahoma — struck Saturday morning and reverberated across the Great Plains, rattling even far-off Iowa. People took to social...
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Texas sues to enforce right to carry guns in county courthouse
Responding to complaints from gun-rights advocates pushing for greater access to public buildings, the Texas attorney general has sued a southeast Texas county that tried to ban guns from its courthouse. “A local government cannot be allowed to flout Texas’s licensed carry laws, or any state law,...
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Mexico mourns Juan Gabriel, the singer known as 'El Divo de Juarez'
Popular Mexican singer Juan Gabriel was known as “El Divo de Juarez,” and as news of his death spread Monday, more than 100 people gathered to mourn outside the block-long mansion that was his home in this border town — one of several he purchased in a city where his mother had once worked as...
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In one Texas congressional race, there's a third candidate — and his name is Trump
Campaign 2016 updates: Clinton aide Huma Abedin to separate from Anthony Weiner after his sexting Aug. 29, 2016, 7:05 p.m. Abedin announced the end of her marriage after new sexually charged photos of Weiner surfaced.Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin splits from husband Anthony Weiner after latest...