Death
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A Million Americans Have Died From Covid. We Need to Mourn Together.
“There is no time to grieve now, there is no time. There is only time for labor in the cold,”…
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Elephants in Mourning Spotted on YouTube by Scientists
It was 2013 when Sanjeeta Pokharel first witnessed Asian elephants responding to death. An older female elephant in an Indian…
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Edward J. Bronson, Who Fought for Fairer Trials, Dies at 91
Edward J. Bronson, a political science professor whose research into potential bias was credited with improving the impartiality of criminal…
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Australian Gets 12 Years for Anti-Gay Killing of an American in 1988
SYDNEY, Australia — An Australian man who in January was convicted of killing a gay American doctoral student more than…
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Shanghai’s Low Covid Death Toll Revives Questions About China’s Numbers
By the numbers, Shanghai has been an exemplar of how to save lives during a pandemic. Despite the city’s more…
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A Door-to-Door Effort to Find Out Who Died Helps Low-Income Countries Aid the Living
FUNKOYA, Sierra Leone — Augustine Alpha begins gently. “Who lives in this home?” he asks the young man, who has…
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Politics
Terrorism Trial Ends With Account of Aid Worker’s Enslavement
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Federal prosecutors concluded their conspiracy and terrorism case against a British member of the Islamic State on…
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More Russians Consider Costs of War in Ukraine as Casualties Mount
Ivan Kononov, a senior lieutenant in the Russian marines, loved to cook. He made Italian food for his unit in…
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Police Officer’s Suicide After Jan. 6 Riot Is Ruled a Line-of-Duty Death
The death of Officer Jeffrey Smith, who killed himself nine days after confronting a mob at the U.S. Capitol on…
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Ash Wednesday Forces Us to Confront Death, but It Also Offers Hope
Several days a week, on the way from my home to the nearest coffee shop, I pass a cemetery. Among…
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