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Black Prisoners Face Higher Rate of Botched Executions, Study Finds
Lethal injections of Black people in the United States were botched more than twice as often as those of white people, according to a report from an anti-death-penalty group.
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Doctor Is Fired After Maternal and Infant Deaths at a Brooklyn Hospital
A doctor involved in an infant death at Woodhull Medical Center was later involved in a C-section that led to a mother’s death, according to state investigators and hospital staff.
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Who ‘Won’ Covid? It Depends How You Measure.
Twenty months ago, in July 2022, I wrote a long essay sketching what I called the “pretty brutal” endemic future for Covid: probably about 100,000 deaths annually, at least for the next few years. The number was just a ballpark estimate, drawn from ...
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Putin Breaks Silence on Navalny’s Death, Calling It an ‘Unfortunate Incident’
President Vladimir V. Putin described the death of the imprisoned opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny as an “unfortunate incident” and claimed he had been ready to release him in exchange for Russian prisoners held in the West. Mr. Putin, in a news ...
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Iran’s 2022 Protest Crackdown Included Killings, Torture and Rape, U.N. Finds
A fact-finding mission looking into the demonstrations that followed the death of Mahsa Amini found brutality and rejected Iran’s version of Ms. Amini’s death.
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Guy Alexandre, Transplant Surgeon Who Redefined Death, Dies at 89
His willingness to remove kidneys from brain-dead patients increased the organs’ viability while challenging the line between living and dead.
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Death Toll in Gaza Passes 30,000
The death toll in Gaza passed a somber milestone on Thursday as the local health ministry reported that more than 30,000 people had been killed in the war since Oct. 7. The number of deaths since Israel launched its military offensive against Hamas ...
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War and Illness Could Kill 85,000 Gazans in 6 Months
An escalation of the war in Gaza could lead to the deaths of 85,000 Palestinians from injuries and disease over the next six months, in the worst of three situations that prominent epidemiologists have modeled in an effort to understand the potential ...
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War and Illness Could Kill 85,000 Gazans in 6 Months
An escalation of the war in Gaza could lead to the deaths of 85,000 Palestinians from injuries and disease over the next six months, in the worst of three scenarios that prominent epidemiologists have modeled in an effort to understand the potential ...
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Worst-Case Scenario for Gaza: War and Illness Kill 85,000 in Next 6 Months
An escalation of the war in Gaza could lead to the deaths of 85,000 Palestinians from injuries and disease over the next six months, in the worst of three scenarios that prominent epidemiologists have modeled in an effort to understand the potential ...
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