Month: June 2023

Since he became president of the small West African nation of Sierra Leone in 2018, Julius Maada Bio has dedicated 22 percent of the country’s budget to education, a policy that…

Looking for Purpose Ms. Calderone grew up in a small town on Long Island, where, she said, her worldview, was fairly limited. “We didn’t travel,” she said. “We didn’t eat…

On one vessel, five people died on a very expensive excursion that was supposed to return them to the lives they knew. On the other, perhaps 500 people died just…

Ozempic and Wegovy have already changed the landscape for obesity in America — a breakthrough that has been described and debated so much in terms of cosmetic benefits and medical…

A survivor of two boat sinkings tells his story in the deadliest year for migrants in the Americas.

Jay Bloom, a Las Vegas investor, says he and his son changed their mind because of safety concerns.

“If you steer away from sound engineering principles, which are all based on hard won experience, there is a price to pay, and it’s a terrible price,” he said. “So…

Hour-by-hour, this is how the story of OceanGate’s doomed submersible unfolded.

“Joy and sorrow were always communal rights in small maritime communities” like the Canadian city.

A declassified report finds no direct evidence the virus came from a lab, but adds it can’t be ruled out.