Ebola treatment center set on fire in Congo after residents clash with authorities over victim’s body
An Ebola treatment center in the epicenter of the deadly outbreak in eastern Congo was set on fire Thursday after...
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DOJ Escalates War on Trans Youth Healthcare With Criminal Subpoenas
NYU Langone was slapped with a DOJ subpoena for sweeping records related to gender-affirming care for young people. Photo: GHI/Education Images/Universal...
Cruise ship outbreak leaves 3 dead as officials delay medical evacuations and probe hantavirus threat
A suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has left three people dead and several others...
‘Killing off the country’: Iran executes dozens, arrests 4,000+ in war crackdown
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Tuesday accused Iran’s regime of dramatically intensifying its crackdown on dissent...
An American Company Drilled for Oil in Kenya — and Left Behind Soaring Cancer Rates
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Goat meat goes down like big shards of glass when the symptoms...
Conversion Therapy Gets Speech Protections — But Trans Kids’ Existence Gets No Protection At All
A protester demonstrating for trans rights in New York City on Feb. 3, 2025. Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images...
Father loses legal fight to halt euthanasia of 25-year-old daughter in Spain
This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide &...
Israel’s Deadly Blockade Traps 7 U.S. Doctors in Gaza
The Israeli government is blocking medical workers from entering or leaving Gaza, twice canceling the departure of seven U.S.-based physicians...
Private Prison Falsified Records in Detainee’s Death in ICE Custody
Staff at a for-profit Pennsylvania immigrant prison serially falsified detention records about a man who died in 2023, according to...
Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant
At first, Steven Saari said, federal immigration agents seemed to think he was one of them. Saari, a Marine Corps...
Iranian brutality: Nobel laureate fighting for life after barbaric assault at notorious prison
The Norwegian Nobel Committee is calling on Iran to stop its physical abuse and life-threatening treatment of Nobel peace laureate...
By Slashing Foreign Aid, Trump Is Fueling the Spread of HIV in Uganda
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. KAMPALA, UGANDA — Ever since President Donald Trump was elected a year...
An Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill With a Cruel New Twist
A new gender neutral bathroom at Shawnee Mission East High School, on June 16, 2023, in Prairie Village, Kan. Photo:...
An American Citizen Has Been Stuck in El Salvador’s Prison System Since the Biden Administration
When the cops arrived at a party in Cantón la Estancia, a tiny hamlet in the shadow of the San...
He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting. Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti’s Killing
Less than 40 minutes after federal immigration agents shot and killed 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti on Nicollet Avenue in south...
