Death
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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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World
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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World
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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Iran’s 2022 Protest Crackdown Included Killings, Torture and Rape, U.N. Finds
A fact-finding mission looking into the demonstrations that followed the death of Mahsa Amini found brutality and rejected Iran’s version…
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Guy Alexandre, Transplant Surgeon Who Redefined Death, Dies at 89
His willingness to remove kidneys from brain-dead patients increased the organs’ viability while challenging the line between living and dead.
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World
Death Toll in Gaza Passes 30,000
The death toll in Gaza passed a somber milestone on Thursday as the local health ministry reported that more than…
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War and Illness Could Kill 85,000 Gazans in 6 Months
An escalation of the war in Gaza could lead to the deaths of 85,000 Palestinians from injuries and disease over…
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War and Illness Could Kill 85,000 Gazans in 6 Months
An escalation of the war in Gaza could lead to the deaths of 85,000 Palestinians from injuries and disease over…
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World
Worst-Case Scenario for Gaza: War and Illness Kill 85,000 in Next 6 Months
An escalation of the war in Gaza could lead to the deaths of 85,000 Palestinians from injuries and disease over…
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