Opioid overdose deaths hit a record high in the District of Columbia in 2023, rising by more than 12% from 2022, according to a new report released by the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In 2023, 518 deaths were connected to the use of opioids at a 73% mortality rate versus 461 deaths […]
Over three dozen House Democrats, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, signed a letter Friday pressing the Biden administration to stop sending weapons to Israel following a drone strike that left seven aid workers dead in Gaza. The letter, also signed by Reps. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, James McGovern of Massachusetts, and Jan […]
War is hell. Bad things happen. That is why war is a last resort. The Israel-Hamas war is a war of necessity. Seven humanitarian aid workers were killed in Gaza on Monday by an Israeli air strike. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized and pledged that there would be an investigation. When I wrote about […]
JACKSON, Miss. — After men near Mississippi’s capital were buried in a pauper’s cemetery without their relatives’ knowledge, the U.S. Justice Department will help the city’s police revamp policies for performing next-of-kin death notifications. The intervention follows the discovery that seven men were buried in unmarked graves without their families’ knowledge. At least three of […]
DAMASCUS, Syria — An Israeli airstrike has destroyed the consular section of Iran’s embassy in Syria, killing a senior Iranian military adviser and roughly a handful of other people, Syrian state media said Monday. The strike on the Iranian consulate building could mark an escalation of the Israeli military’s ongoing targeting of Iranian military officials […]
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops fired on a crowd of Palestinians waiting for aid in Gaza City on Thursday, witnesses said. More than 100 people were killed, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israel–Hamas war to more than 30,000, according to health officials. Hospital officials initially reported an Israeli strike […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The collapse of a sand hole that killed a 5-year-old Indiana girl who was digging with her brother on a Florida beach is an underrecognized danger that kills and injures several children a year around the country. Sloan Mattingly died Tuesday afternoon at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea’s beach when a 4-to-5-foot-deep (1-to-1.5-meter) hole collapsed […]
TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia‘s coast guard retrieved the bodies of nine people who died after their boat sank on Thursday, marking the latest disaster for migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. The coast guard also retrieved 45 people from the boat after it started to fill with water four miles (about six […]
WASHINGTON — The kind of systemic failures that enabled the high-profile prison deaths of notorious gangster Whitey Bulger and financier Jeffrey Epstein also contributed to the deaths of hundreds of other federal prisoners over the years, a watchdog report released Thursday found. Mental health care, emergency responses and the detection of contraband drugs and weapons […]
A new report from the Washington Post claims that U.S. military forces in Jordan likely did not detect the approach of the drone that ended up killing three American troops last week, noting there wasn’t an air defense system located on-site that possessed the capabilities of taking it out, according to the initial assessment […]
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