An autopsy report revealed that a pet Gila monster’s venomous bite contributed to a Colorado man’s death in February in what an expert described as “an incredibly rare” fatality caused by one of the desert lizards. The man, Christopher Ward, 34, died on Feb. 16 “due to complications of Gila monster envenomization,” said the Jefferson […]
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3 People Fatally Shot in Falls Township, Pa., Police Say
Three people were fatally shot on Saturday morning at two separate residences in Falls Township in Pennsylvania, according to the authorities, who said they tracked the gunman to a home in Trenton, N.J. The gunman, identified by the authorities as Andre Gordon, 26, drove a stolen vehicle and killed two people at a residence in […]
Read More16 Killed in Russian Missile Strike on Odesa, Ukraine Says
A Russian missile attack on Odesa killed at least 16 people and injured 55 others, Ukrainian authorities said on Friday, the latest in a series of deadly air assaults on the southern Ukrainian port city. Ukraine’s state emergency services said a first missile hit several houses late in the morning, prompting rescuers to rush to […]
Read MoreTornadoes and Injuries Reported as Severe Weather Tears Through Midwest
Severe storms tore through three Midwestern states on Thursday, producing reports of damaging tornadoes across Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana and injuring dozens of people. In eastern Indiana, the towns of Winchester in Randolph County and Selma in Delaware County appeared to be badly hit. Local officials said they believed a tornado had hit a trailer […]
Read MoreAlec Baldwin Seeks Dismissal of ‘Rust’ Manslaughter Indictment
Lawyers for Alec Baldwin filed court papers on Thursday seeking to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter indictment against him related to the fatal shooting on the “Rust” movie set, arguing that prosecutors did not properly present the grand jury with evidence that could have supported his case. Mr. Baldwin — who was practicing drawing a gun […]
Read MoreTeen Pregnancy Linked to Risk of Earlier Death in Adulthood, Study Finds
Teen pregnancy increases the chances that a young woman will drop out of school and struggle with poverty, research has shown. Teenagers are also more likely to develop serious medical complications during pregnancy. Now a large study in Canada reports another disturbing finding: Women who were pregnant as teenagers are more likely to die before […]
Read MoreCalifornia Prosecutors Filing Murder Charges in More Fentanyl Deaths
Just about every state in America has cracked down on fentanyl distribution, by stepping up arrests and increasing prison sentences. But few places are as aggressive as Riverside County, Calif., in prosecuting people who supply fatal does of fentanyl. Since late 2021, the Riverside County district attorney, Mike Hestrin, has charged 34 suspected fentanyl suppliers […]
Read MoreThe Alarming Findings Inside a Mass Shooter’s Brain
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Read MoreMarking The 4-Year Anniversary of the Covid Pandemic
Jessie Thompson, a 36-year-old mother of two in Chicago, is reminded of the Covid-19 pandemic every day. Sometimes it happens when she picks up her children from day care and then lets them romp around at a neighborhood park on the way home. Other times, it’s when she gets out the shower at 7 a.m. […]
Read MoreAvalanche Expert’s Death Shows Dangers of Backcountry Skiing
An avalanche forecaster was killed in an avalanche while skiing in Oregon last week, the authorities said. The forecaster, Nick Burks, 37, was backcountry skiing on Gunsight Mountain in the Elkhorn Mountains in northeastern Oregon on March 6 when he triggered an avalanche at the top of a couloir, or crevasse, in the mountain, the […]
Read MoreOregon Decriminalized Drugs. Voters Now Regret It.
Fact-checking by Susan Lee. The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Mike Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle […]
Read MoreThe Fourth Anniversary of the Covid Pandemic
Four years ago today, society began to shut down. Shortly after noon Eastern on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid — or “the coronavirus,” then the more popular term — to be a global pandemic. Stocks plummeted in the afternoon. In the span of a single hour that night, President Donald Trump […]
Read MoreTexas Helicopter Crash Near Mexican Border Kills 3
A helicopter carrying National Guard members and a Border Patrol agent crashed on Friday in southern Texas near the border with Mexico, killing three of its occupants and critically injuring the fourth, officials said. The helicopter, which crashed at 2:50 p.m., was a UH-72 Lakota, Joint Task Force North said in a statement. Two of […]
Read MoreIran’s 2022 Protest Crackdown Included Killings, Torture and Rape, U.N. Finds
United Nations investigators say Iranian authorities killed, tortured and raped women, men and children in a brutal repression of mass protests that erupted over the death in police custody of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for allegedly wearing a mandatory hijab incorrectly. A U.N. fact-finding mission reporting to the Human Rights […]
Read MoreReminder: Trump’s Last Year in Office Was a National Nightmare
One of the amazing political achievements of Republicans in this election cycle has been their ability, at least so far, to send Donald Trump’s last year in office down the memory hole. Voters are supposed to remember the good economy of January 2020, with its combination of low unemployment and low inflation, while forgetting about […]
Read MoreAndrew Cuomo Faces House Subpoena Over Covid Deaths in Nursing Homes
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has been subpoenaed to appear before a House subcommittee to answer for his administration’s handling of nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic, reigniting a flashpoint that could further damage his chances at a political comeback. The Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic accused Mr. Cuomo of […]
Read MoreWhy Bicycle Deaths Have Risen in New York City
Last year was the deadliest year for cyclists in New York City since 1999, according to new data from the city’s Department of Transportation. Most of the 30 cyclists who died in 2023 were riding electric bikes, which have proliferated on city streets in recent years. A total of 23 people died riding e-bikes, which […]
Read MoreRussian Strike’s Toll Rises to 10 as Zelensky Blames Air Defense Delay
Rescue workers in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa pulled the bodies of a mother and baby from the rubble of an apartment building on Sunday, bringing the death toll in a Russian attack two days ago to 10. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said delays by the country’s allies in supplying air defenses had […]
Read MoreRussian Strike’s Toll Rises to 10 as Zelensky Blames Air Defense Delay
Rescue workers in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa pulled the bodies of a mother and baby from the rubble of an apartment building on Sunday, bringing the death toll in a Russian attack two days ago to 10. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said delays by the country’s allies in supplying air defenses had […]
Read MoreThe Fires Sweeping Across Texas Offer a Terrifying Warning
On Thursday, as flames from the Smokehouse Creek Fire raced eastward across the Texas Panhandle for the fourth straight day at speeds faster than a person can run, a cold front, driving a snow squall, swept southward over the Great Plains. In an elemental collision, the fire and snow met east of Amarillo, the swirling […]
Read MoreIsrael, Gaza and Double Standards, Including Our Own
Does the West have a double standard when it comes to Israel, pouncing on everything it does with undue harshness? When he was challenged about the bloodshed in Gaza on “Face the Nation” last weekend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel responded, “What would America do” after something like the Oct. 7 Hamas attack? “Would […]
Read MoreBangladesh Fire Kills at Least 43 in Shopping Mall
At least 43 people were killed and dozens were injured when a fire ripped through a shopping mall late Thursday night in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, officials said. “So far, we know that 43 have died,” Dr. Samanta Lal Sen, the health minister, told reporters outside a hospital where some of the injured were being […]
Read MoreAs Hungry Gazans Crowd an Aid Convoy, a Crush of Bodies, Israeli Gunshots and a Deadly Toll
Israeli forces opened fire on Thursday as a crowd gathered near a convoy of aid trucks in Gaza City in a chaotic scene in which scores were killed and injured, according to Gazan officials and the Israeli military, which attributed most of the deaths to a stampede. Although officials from both sides offered differing accounts, […]
Read More5 Convicts Familiar With Navalny’s Prison Confirm Hellish Conditions
Locked in an Arctic prison, Aleksei A. Navalny is likely to have spent his final days in some of the most inhumane conditions within Russia’s extensive penitentiary system, according to five men who have served sentences in the same penal colony as the Russian opposition leader. The men described in phone interviews unbearable cold, repulsive […]
Read MoreWeary but Determined, Ukrainians Vow Never to Bow to Russia
When Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv a couple of weeks ago, schoolchildren and their teachers installed in newly built underground classrooms did not hear a thing. Down in the bowels of Kharkiv’s cavernous, Soviet-era subway stations, the city administration has built a line of brightly decorated classrooms, where 6- and 7-year-olds are […]
Read MoreNew York Mourns Flaco, an Owl Who Inspired as He Made the City His Own
He had soared through Manhattan, perching on oak trees and elms in Central Park, tenements on the Lower East Side, water towers on the Upper West Side. “I feel like he was showing us how we can break free out of our cages, the mundane, the things that don’t serve us, the things that hold […]
Read MoreAleksei Navalny’s Allies Confirm His Death
Aleksei A. Navalny’s political allies on Saturday confirmed his death, saying that his mother had received an official notification of it. Kira Yarmysh, Mr. Navalny’s spokeswoman, said in a statement on X that Russian investigators had transferred Mr. Navalny’s body from a penal colony in the Arctic to the nearby town of Salekhard, where it […]
Read MoreVirginia Home Explosion Kills One Firefighter, Injures 11 Others
A firefighter was killed after a house in Virginia exploded Friday night, injuring 11 other people and scattering pieces of the home across the neighborhood, officials said. Firefighters arrived at the home in Sterling, Va., a suburb of Washington, about 7:40 p.m., said James Williams, the assistant chief of operations for Loudoun County Fire and […]
Read MoreBiden Condemns ‘Putin and His Thugs’ for Navalny’s Death
President Biden blamed President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia personally on Friday for the reported death of the imprisoned Russian dissident Aleksei A. Navalny, and cited the case in pressing House Republicans to approve military aid to Ukraine in its war with Moscow. But while he once threatened to impose “devastating” consequences on Mr. Putin […]
Read MoreC.D.C. Considers Ending 5-Day Isolation Period for Covid
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering loosening its recommendations regarding how long people should isolate after testing positive for the coronavirus, another reflection of changing attitudes and norms as the pandemic recedes. Under the proposed guidelines, Americans would no longer be advised to isolate for five days before returning to work or […]
Read More6 Bodies Found at Burned Pennsylvania House Where 2 Officers Were Shot
The remains of six family members have been recovered from a burned home in southeastern Pennsylvania, including those of a man who is believed to have shot two police officers on Wednesday, the authorities said on Friday. Jack Stollsteimer, the Delaware County district attorney, said at a news conference on Friday afternoon that the recovery […]
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