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As the MV Hondius sailed out of Ushuaia, the most southerly city on Earth, on 1 April, the grey skies above Tierra del Fuego lifted, lighting…

On the night of 27 July 2023, Kimberly Milne jumped to her death from a road bridge.Her suicide came after months of mental health crises, compounded…

The blizzard blew so fierce that the skier at the head of the line kept disappearing into a whiteout. The winds were gusting over 50 miles…

Reading fiction has been such a joy for me that my heart broke a little to learn recently that many schools no longer assign full books…

Gaza City – The rain came pouring down on Osama al-Hussari’s home, the storm that hit Gaza City earlier this week refusing to relent.Inside the 57-year-old’s…

Residents remove their belongings from flood-damaged homes in Meureudu, Indonesia.Credit: Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA/ShutterstockIn late November, three tropical cyclones — Senyar, Ditwah and Koto — devastated cities and…

Before an Afghan refugee, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, yesterday shot and seriously injured two National Guard members who had been deployed by President Donald Trump to Washington, D.C.,…

Lucian Leape, a pioneer in patient safety, once said the single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that “we punish people for…

In December 2023, I spent half a minute with Charlie Kirk in the bowels of the Phoenix Convention Center. Turning Point USA, the youth organization that…

At this year’s Venice Film Festival, no film has been more talked about than this latest project from Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, which recounts the…