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At least 25 people, including four children, killed as torrential rains swept through towns across the state, governor says. At least 25 people died, including four children, when torrential rains swamped towns across Appalachia, Kentucky’s governor has said. Governor Andy Beshear said on Saturday that the number would likely rise significantly and it could take […]
BOSTON – Everyday discrimination experienced by people of racial and ethnic minority groups during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with significantly increased odds of moderate to severe depression and thoughts of suicide, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and their colleagues have found. In a study in JAMA Psychiatry, the team […]
Most Americans are feeling the squeeze of inflation. However, black households are getting the brunt of it, according to a University of California San Diego study, which is the first to share findings about how the impacts of inflation differ by race. Black households “experienced slightly higher and more volatile inflation in consumer goods” when […]
She remembers him as a genius who was set to skip ahead to kindergarten after just two weeks of pre-school. He was full of life and didn’t call her “Mom” or “Mommy” but “Happy.” But she was not surprised by the attention and support Highland Park received because it’s a predominantly White Chicago suburb, she […]
Attachments Geneva – This year was not easy for people on the move from the southern shore of the Mediterranean. The pandemic persisted, the levels of forced displacement increased, the structural problems of the European immigration policy endured with some worrisome new proposals and crises, and the European governments continued to violate people’s right to […]
As the U.S. COVID death toll nears a million, why that number is hard to fathom NPR Source link
A widow in North Carolina whose husband died of Covid-19 feels crushed when she hears people talk casually about life in America returning to normal. I will never go back to normal, she thinks to herself. I still feel as though I am missing a limb. A man in New York City who lost his […]
Adam Almonte sits on a bench overlooking the Hudson River where he used to sit and eat tuna sandwiches with his older brother, Fernando Morales, in Fort Tryon Park in New York, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. On the deadliest day of a horrific week in April 2020, COVID-19 took the lives of 816 people in […]
Residents shelter in the basement of a residential building to protect themselves from shelling in Lysychansk, Ukraine on April 13. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images) Ukrainian officials on Friday reported Russian strikes across the Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions in eastern Ukraine, amid warnings of a major Russian offensive in the coming days. The situation in the […]
Soon, likely in the next few weeks, the U.S. toll from the coronavirus will surpass 1 million. Through wave after wave, the virus has compiled a merciless chronology of loss — one by one by one. If losing one person leaves such a lasting void, consider all that’s been lost with the deaths of 1 […]