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By Dani Blum Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the F.D.A. to revoke authorization of the shots at a time when they were in high demand and considered life-saving. By Christina Jewett While the ...

I mean, it’s a huge crisis: 30 million-plus people in 2025 will need help.” A volunteer in Omdurman in May 2024Mosab Abushama Not nearly enough aid is getting through. In late December ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas of reneging on parts of a ceasefire agreement that looked set to pause more than 15 months of fighting in Gaza, risking completion of the ...

(Brussels, January 16, 2025) – The Georgian government drove the country toward a human rights crisis in 2024, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2025. The government ...

Yoon, apprehended at the presidential compound, is the first sitting president in South Korea to be detained, raising the stakes in the ongoing political crisis. A key contention in his case is ...

The move threatened to destabilize the government at a critical time even though it would not, in and of itself, prevent the Gaza deal from moving ahead. A majority in the cabinet is in favor of ...

The inauguration ceremony in Ghana began at around 10 a.m. local time on Jan. 7, or around 2 a.m. Pacific Time in Los Angeles. A few hours after it ended, now 10:30 a.m. in L.A., the Palisades ...

How To Tackle Our Mental Health Crisis Naomi Judd was a musician who left country music better than she found it, a caring nurse, a proud mother and a wife who adored her partner of 42 years.

The first storm is a fiscal crisis nearly a decade in the making ... That is exactly what our budget delivers. At the same time, I am putting forward common-sense proposals to spend less by ...