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Cancer Deaths Are Falling, but There May Be an Asterisk

The news Cancer deaths in the United States are falling, with four million deaths prevented since 1991, according to the…

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Detroit Man Charged in Stabbing Death of Synagogue President

The authorities say the killing of Samantha Woll, widely known as a civic leader, followed a home invasion by a…

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Behind the Birth of an Anti-Vaccine Story

Before he received his second shot of a Covid-19 vaccine, there was little reason to think that George Watts Jr.…

World

In Los Angeles, the ‘Coroner to the Stars’ Has the Last Word

There is no medical examiner’s office in the world like the one in Los Angeles County, where investigations of sudden…

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An ‘Unsettling’ Drop in Life Expectancy for Men

The News The gap in life expectancy between men and women in the United States grew to its widest in…

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How Aid in Dying Became Medical, Not Moral

The debate over aid in dying still rages in the language that medicine and the media use to describe the…

World

Khaled Khalifa, Syrian Novelist ‘Exiled at Home,’ Is Dead at 59

His books, laced with humor and often banned in his country, chronicle centuries of strife in the Middle East, earning…

World

How a Young Activist’s Murder Has Been Gleefully Distorted Online

Because Ryan Carson was a liberal activist, social media trolls blamed his own politics for his death.

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This Above All: My Undying Obsession With ‘Hamlet’

For one critic, every encounter with this Shakespeare play deepens her understanding of its insights into grief, family and gender.

World

Monitor Condemns Rikers Violence as 9th Person Dies in Custody This Year

A scathing report about the troubled Rikers Island jail complex and another death there come as New York City faces…

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