Mass shootings across the US mark the first weekend of summer
The first weekend of summer brought a tragic yet familiar pattern for American cities wracked by gun violence as mass shootings left dozens dead or wounded at a party in…
The Journey Toward 988: A Historical Perspective on Crisis Hotlines in the United States
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0193953X2400025X?dgcid=author John Draper PhD a , Richard T. McKeon PhD, MPH baBehavioral Health Link, Inc, 7423 Narrows Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11209, USAbCenter for Mental Health Services, SAMHSA, 988 and Behavioral Health Crisis Coordinating Office, 5600 Fishers Ln,…
US acknowledges Northwest dams have devastated the region’s Native tribes
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-snake-river-dams-tribes-58f5c6737df3c3e141cbc8e1cd4926ca?user_email=963202ca2a01ae48a49c3e9533d813921c616a41841f39ea7c1b445d48198322&utm_medium=Afternoon_Wire&utm_source=Sailthru_AP&utm_campaign=AfternoonWire_June18_2024&utm_term=Afternoon%20Wire SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged, for the first time, the harmful role it has played over the past century in building and operating dams in…
TRIPLE-DIGIT HIGHS CAN BE MISLEADING
A single number can’t capture extreme heat. By Kylie Mohr Summer has only just officially begun, and the world is already sweltering. This week, two counties in northwestern Maine were…
Series of US mass shootings brings weekend of death and mayhem
One dead and 34 wounded as incidents in New York, Alabama, Missouri and Ohio swell 2024 mass shooting tally Maya Yang A series of mass shootings rocked the US early…
A new leader for the Global Food Institute
GW’s Global Food Institute appoints Executive Director Stacy Dean JOSÉ ANDRÉS JUN 24, 2024 Good morning, friends, I hope you all had an amazing weekend. Did you celebrate the solstice…
Over 1,000 die during haj due to hot temperatures
More than 1,300 pilgrims lost their lives during this year's Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, according to the country's health minister Fahd bin Abdurrahman Al-Jalajel. The fatalities were mainly among…
Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History
by Emily Strasser https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813197197/half-life-of-a-secret Published by: The University Press of Kentucky In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area…
NYC Jewish family pummeled at 5th-grade commencement by attendees shouting ‘Free Palestine,’ mom says
Susan Edelman https://nypost.com/2024/06/23/us-news/nyc-jewish-family-pummeled-at-5th-grade-commencement-by-attendees-shouting-free-palestine-mom-says A Jewish mom and her husband were attacked and beaten at a Brooklyn elementary school graduation by an Arabic-speaking family — who taunted them with shouts of “Free…
The Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti By Leslie G. Desmangles
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS A 1994 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this…