The top U_N_ official in Haiti is sounding an alarm to the U_N_ Security Council that escalating gang violence is liable to lead the Caribbean nation to “a point of no return.”
Judge temporarily blocks NYC mayor from allowing ICE agents on Rikers Island jail
A New York judge has ordered city officials to temporarily halt discussions with the Trump administration allowing federal immigration agents to operate within the Rikers Island jail complex
Wife of detained Columbia activist says her husband was denied release for his son’s birth
The wife of detained Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil is accusing federal immigration officials of purposely denying a request for her husband to attend the birth of their first child so the family would suffer
Herbert Gans, leading sociologist and media analyst, dies at 97
Herbert Gans, an eminent sociologist and media analyst, has died at age 97
Trump adds a second endorsement in the race to be next Arizona governor
President Donald Trump has added another endorsement in next year’s Republican primary for Arizona governor
A sequoia forest in Detroit? Plantings to improve air quality and mark Earth Day
Arborists are hoping to transform vacant land on Detroit’s eastside by planting giant sequoias, the world’s largest trees
Karen Read’s second murder trial revives debate over who killed her Boston police officer boyfriend
The much-anticipated retrial of Karen Read is set to begin
Who’s who in the criminal trial of a former Tennessee House speaker and his onetime top aide
The former Tennessee House speaker and his onetime chief of staff are facing a federal criminal trial this week
Is ‘de-extinction’ really possible? – podcast
The American biotech company Colossal Biosciences recently made headlines around the world with claims it had resurrected the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct at the end of the last ice age. But does what the company has done amount to ‘de-extinction’ or should we instead think of these...
Top cancer experts ‘being put off UK by politicians’ messaging on immigration’
Exclusive: Leaked report says high visa costs also derailing clinical trials and research, denying NHS life-saving drugs NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs ‘due to Brexit costs’ Children with cancer cannot wait’: human cost of clinical trial delays The world’s best cancer doctors, scientists and researchers are being put off...