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Most Wrongful Death Lawsuits Tied to Astroworld Festival Are Settled

The rapper Travis Scott and the concert promoter Live Nation faced 10 suits after the 2021 tragedy. One case from…

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Widening Racial Disparities Underlie Rise in Child Deaths in the U.S.

New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by…

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Court in Iran Sentences Prominent Rapper to Death, His Lawyer Says

The rapper, Toomaj Salehi, was initially arrested after releasing music in support of the protests that roiled the country in…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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