Pandemic czar says quarantine to be shortened to 12 days ■ Senior PLO official Saeb Erekat in critical condition ■ Preschools reopen, movement restrictions canceled ■ Violating restrictions, Haredim reopen…
Thawing permafrost onland raises tsunami risk, of all things. And: why hominin evolution has a sobering insight for us. All this and more in this week’s Haaretz climate change briefs…
They were coming for the governor. Armed white supremacist militias had repeatedly disrupted elections and rattled the government, and now they wanted to take the state’s chief executive into custody.…
March 2011. The Arab Spring was in full force. The Libyan Civil War intensifying. And then, on the 11th day of the month, the fourth most powerful earthquake ever recorded…
Shelby Parker planned to get pregnant this year. The timing seemed right: She was working as a middle school teacher in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, a job that provided benefits for…
Preterm birth before 28 weeks of gestation may be linked to childhood depression, suggests a study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Subina Upadhyaya, M.P.H., and colleagues…
Donna Mays had waited a long time for Oct. 13. It was the day she hoped her son Jamel Floyd—whom she had expected to be released that month after more…
The bodies of those who perished washed up on the coast near Obock (a small port town on the Gulf of Aden) are being recovered and buried by IOM staff, the UN…
The state’s voter rolls have grown by nearly 2 million since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, but polling locations have been cut by almost…
When local government officials of Ziebice, a small Polish village, looked up at one of the most prominent evangelist churches, they knew it was on its last legs. After standing…