The final lick of paint was barely dry on the newly built, white-tiled Al-Hasanat home when the war in Gaza erupted in October. For three-year-old Ayten, the apartment in central Gaza was a source…
The 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act has garnered little fanfare. Only a handful of news articles and events have commemorated the centennial of the law giving U.S. citizenship to Native Americans. Perhaps that’s unsurprising.…
A recent study published in PLOS Medicine has found that heatwaves are linked to more than 150,000 deaths per year in 43 countries across five continents. Lead author Yuming Guo…
By Katherine E. McKinney, Scott D. Sagan, Allen S. Weiner | July 1, 2020 In his first radio address after the bombing of Hiroshima, President Harry S. Truman claimed that…
By Richard Rhodes | August 6, 2020 Since the first use of nuclear weapons in war, 75 years ago this August, people concerned with the danger of large-scale nuclear war…
Among patients receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for major depression, those who experienced longer therapeutic seizures had higher odds of depression remission, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. Compared with patients whose…
In its first edition, Prison Matters brings together a global overview of the latest estimates and trendson prison population and prison, building upon the 2021 and 2023 editions of Data…
More than half of people incarcerated before the age of 18 go on to be reincarcerated as adults, with bipolar disorder and substance use disorders significantly increasing the odds of…
The global average surface temperature soared to 17.15 degrees Celsius on Monday, or 62.87 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking a short-lived record set on Sunday Shi En Kim July 25, 2024 1:36…
Beneath the blazing summer sun on a former slave plantation, Lamont Gross and fellow prisoners stooped in long rows, picking vegetables by hand under the watchful eyes of armed guards…