Family of Aderrien Murry, 11, shot by police demands answers
The Mississippi boy was shot after calling police for help in a domestic disturbance, his family says.
South Carolina six-week abortion ban temporarily halted
The bill will undergo Supreme Court review following intervention by Judge Clifton Newman.
US and Mexico sound alarm over cosmetic surgery-linked fungal outbreak
The US and Mexico are urging the WHO to declare a public health emergency over the outbreak.
Navy finds ‘perfect storm’ of problems in elite Seals course
Mr Mullen, 24, had been suffering from poor health for several days during “Hell Week”, but received no significant medical help from instructors. On two separate occasions, a medical officer…
Actors lose Romeo & Juliet nude scene lawsuit
In December, the actors filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures for sexual harassment and child sexual abuse. They claimed the film’s director, Franco Zeffirelli, had encouraged them to film nude…
Connecticut ‘witches’ exonerated by Senate lawmakers
Eleven of the 12 were hanged after trials the state Senate acknowledges were a “miscarriage of justice”.
Nobel Peace Prize winner compares Zuckerberg to dictator
The Fillipino journalist, Maria Ressa, told the BBC that social media users are ‘handcuffed’ to Facebook. A Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2021 and co-founder of Rappler, the Philippines’ biggest…
Opinion | To Be Gay in a Country Where It’s Still Illegal
I’m traveling in West Africa on my annual win-a-trip journey, a global reporting expedition on which I take a university student to highlight issues that deserve more attention. My winner…
Opinion | How the Internet Shrank Musk and DeSantis
If you had told me several months ago, immediately after Elon Musk bought Twitter and Ron DeSantis celebrated a thumping re-election victory, that DeSantis would launch his presidential campaign in…
Opinion | Don’t Kill ‘Frankenstein’ With Real Frankensteins at Large
“There is no time in our history in which the humanities, philosophy, ethics and art are more urgently necessary than in this time of technology’s triumph,” said Leon Wieseltier, the…