The Trump administration has conducted military strikes on boats suspected of carrying narcotics, resulting in over 60 deaths. Officials have not provided evidence that the boats were carrying drugs, ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he doesn’t know how many people died of COVID-19, blaming the Biden administration for keeping what he said is faulty data—though the ...

Tropical cyclones—also known as hurricanes, typhoons or storms, depending on their location and intensity—are among the world's most destructive and costly climate disasters. Their direct physical ...

Last week I published a long story about my near-fatal bacterial infection six months ago, and the material benefits that kept me alive. Since the piece ran I have been completely overwhelmed by ...

Was George Floyd killed by a police officer? The official answer, according to a newly revealed set of federal government records, is no. Under the federal Death in Custody Reporting Act, anyone who ...

Three people died on California’s waterways on Saturday as summer recreation on rivers and lakes ramps up. On Saturday morning, shortly after 6 a.m., the bodies of two individuals were found in the ...

Between 2019 and 2023, nearly 4,000 people died in U.S. jails. That's about 1,000 people annually. Nearly one-third of those deaths don't have a cause of death, according to an analysis of federal ...

In prisons and jails, a person’s care is entirely in the hands of the institution. When someone dies in custody, the public ...

As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents ramp up mass arrests under President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, ICE is now detaining a record number of immigrants (nearly half of ...

Dr. Stephen Doran of Omaha, Nebraska, has seen people die well and people die poorly during his more than 25 years as a neurosurgeon. Doran, 62, who was ordained a Roman Catholic deacon in 2021, ...

If you died and then came back to life, how would the experience change how you spend your time at work? My research assistant and I were interested in this question, so we conducted a study to find ...