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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Choosing to forgive can be frightening, but it’s a powerful tool for repairing the harm done by violence, oppression and other traumas. By Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is a professor of…

GENEVA (21 June 2024) – The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture contacted the French Government ahead of a major security and arms fair being held in Paris this week, to…

A controversial children's coloring book titled "From the River to the Sea" in South Africa promotes antisemitic narratives, excludes Israelis, and denies Israel's right to exist. A controversial new children's…