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Fighting Isn’t the Only Killer of Gazans Amid the War, Researchers Say

Gazan health officials say that more than 38,000 people have been killed in nine months of fighting between Israel and…

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U.N. Cites a Lower Death Toll Among Women and Children in Gaza

The United Nations has begun citing a much lower death toll for women and children in Gaza, relying on a…

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Anti-Monarchy Activist in Thailand Dies After Hunger Strike

Netiporn Sanesangkhom, 28, supported abolishing the law that prohibits criticizing royalty and wanted to push the authorities to stop jailing…

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Most Wrongful Death Lawsuits Tied to Astroworld Festival Are Settled

The rapper Travis Scott and the concert promoter Live Nation faced 10 suits after the 2021 tragedy. One case from…

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Widening Racial Disparities Underlie Rise in Child Deaths in the U.S.

New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by…

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Court in Iran Sentences Prominent Rapper to Death, His Lawyer Says

The rapper, Toomaj Salehi, was initially arrested after releasing music in support of the protests that roiled the country in…

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Black Prisoners Face Higher Rate of Botched Executions, Study Finds

Lethal injections of Black people in the United States were botched more than twice as often as those of white…

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Doctor Is Fired After Maternal and Infant Deaths at a Brooklyn Hospital

A doctor involved in an infant death at Woodhull Medical Center was later involved in a C-section that led to…

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Who ‘Won’ Covid? It Depends How You Measure.

Twenty months ago, in July 2022, I wrote a long essay sketching what I called the “pretty brutal” endemic future…

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Putin Breaks Silence on Navalny’s Death, Calling It an ‘Unfortunate Incident’

President Vladimir V. Putin described the death of the imprisoned opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny as an “unfortunate incident” and…

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