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For nearly 30 years, Boston University has led the largest and longest-running study of Black women’s health, shining a light on tragic disparities and showing women their lives matter Photo by KATE_SEPT2004/iStock For nearly 30 years, Boston University has led the largest and longest-running study of Black women’s health, shining a light on tragic disparities […]

The explosions woke Ali Al-Sunaidar and his children in the middle of the night — a familiar feeling after years of war. He knew that the ancient mud-brick buildings in Yemen’s capital, Sana, could collapse under the pressure released by bombings, so he opened the windows in his home, letting in the winter air. “We […]

At a remote spot in the Arizona desert, near a hole in the border wall, dozens of migrants huddled over wood fires. After fleeing war in Sudan, violent gangs in Central America or Mexican cartels, the men had all crossed into the United States illegally, walked on foot over rugged terrain for hours, and arrived […]

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (C) reviews a military honour guard with Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) during a welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 8, 2018. GREG BAKER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images For decades, the US […]

WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD, Nov 9 (Reuters) – A defective drone in Iraq may have helped keep America from being dragged deeper into a widening Middle East conflict. The drone, which was launched at the Erbil air base by an Iranian-backed militia before sunrise on Oct. 26, penetrated U.S. air defenses and crashed into the second floor of […]

The U.S. is on the brink of another shutdown, and Black Americans could feel the brunt of the potential furloughs and chaos brought on by Congress. Black workers make up 13% of the total U.S. population but nearly 20% of the federal workforce. In the short term, the effects of a shutdown might not be […]

US president signs legislation lifting the debt ceiling, averting a catastrophic default on the federal government’s debt. With just two days to spare, President Joe Biden has signed legislation that lifts the nation’s debt ceiling, averting an economically disastrous default on the federal government’s debt. The White House announced the signing on Saturday, done in […]

For years, two communities in the Curare-Los Ingleses Indigenous Reserve in southeast Colombia have worked to protect the black caiman — the largest predator in the Amazon River basin, which was hunted to near extinction in the area for its highly-prized skin. Now, with support from a Conservation International partnership that combined scientific measures with […]

Not to be dramatic, but hearing the news that the United States could be on the brink of a financial disaster in a few weeks, was not exactly how we’d . . .

Press ReleaseApril 26, 2023 U.S. Ambassador Bridget A. Brink visited the Danube river ports of Reni and Izmail to highlight the U.S. government’s sustained support for Ukraine’s grain exports and its economically vital agricultural sector amid Russia’s ongoing full-scale war against Ukraine. The United States is working with the private sector to mobilize investment and […]


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