Jose Mejia Martinez, 34, jailed on a shoplifting charge, died after multiple correction officers failed to seek medical help for three hours, a federal lawsuit charges. A Rikers Island detainee…
Johannesburg was built on gold. It’s now such a mess that homeless people direct the traffic. Solomon Owa’s fingers work quickly as he speaks over the hum of his sewing…
When the California congresswoman Barbara Lee first introduced a bill proposing a national commission on racial healing, the US had erupted in grief and rage over the murder of George Floyd. Since…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved the system that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children, rejecting a broad attack from…
Human activity and natural forces can cause parts of the Earth’s surface to sink. These cities are facing a double whammy: sinking land and rising seas. New York City is,…
“I think that’s my mom,” Tyler West told his then-fiancée as they looked through her baby photos, including one of a hospital delivery nurse Kelsey Poll andherfiancé, Tyler West, were…
Every year in India, many thousands are killed in marriage-payment disputes. Why does this war on women persist? On September 21, 2021, my mother sent a message to my extended…
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Fertility rates are tailing off sooner than expected “HOW PARAMOUNT the future is to the present, when one is surrounded by children,” wrote Charles Darwin in 1852, reflecting on his own…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Under the plaintive painted eyes of the holy, a volunteer team of two United Nations-backed engineers watched as a whirling laser took a million measurements a…