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Yvonne Miller was beside herself with grief when her 23-year-old son, Christopher B Kelly, died from gun violence in August 2020. She connected with the Trauma…

Jim Henson’s Creature Shop has sat, for the past 16 years, on the fourth floor of an office building in Long Island City, New York, behind…

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Betsy Lewis, 75, poses for a portrait at her home in Houston, Texas. Photograph: Danielle Villasana/The GuardianI can remember many things about the afternoon I told…

In August 1775, nothing particularly dramatic was happening among the roughly 14,000 soldiers of the Continental Army besieging the British army in Boston. Indeed, nothing particularly…

I am dependent on long-term oxygen therapy after a double lung transplant.I’m entitled to reimbursement of the excess electricity used by the oxygen concentrator and have…

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Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. The world is in a “plastics crisis”,…

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