Death
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World
Detroit Man Charged in Stabbing Death of Synagogue President
The authorities say the killing of Samantha Woll, widely known as a civic leader, followed a home invasion by a…
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Business
Behind the Birth of an Anti-Vaccine Story
Before he received his second shot of a Covid-19 vaccine, there was little reason to think that George Watts Jr.…
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World
In Los Angeles, the ‘Coroner to the Stars’ Has the Last Word
There is no medical examiner’s office in the world like the one in Los Angeles County, where investigations of sudden…
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News
An ‘Unsettling’ Drop in Life Expectancy for Men
The News The gap in life expectancy between men and women in the United States grew to its widest in…
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News
How Aid in Dying Became Medical, Not Moral
The debate over aid in dying still rages in the language that medicine and the media use to describe the…
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World
Khaled Khalifa, Syrian Novelist ‘Exiled at Home,’ Is Dead at 59
His books, laced with humor and often banned in his country, chronicle centuries of strife in the Middle East, earning…
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News
How a Young Activist’s Murder Has Been Gleefully Distorted Online
Because Ryan Carson was a liberal activist, social media trolls blamed his own politics for his death.
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Arts
This Above All: My Undying Obsession With ‘Hamlet’
For one critic, every encounter with this Shakespeare play deepens her understanding of its insights into grief, family and gender.
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News
Monitor Condemns Rikers Violence as 9th Person Dies in Custody This Year
A scathing report about the troubled Rikers Island jail complex and another death there come as New York City faces…
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World
Some Key Facts About Fentanyl
It’s lowering American life expectancy and influencing the nation’s politics.