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Sara Anne Willette and her family plan on moving to the countryside in the South as COVID-19 continues to impact the immunocompromised community. — Courtesy of Sara Anne Willette (NEW YORK) — Sara Anne Willette has spent more than 1,620 days in isolation since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The New Jersey resident took […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (KENOSHA, Wis.) — Kenosha, Wisconsin, is a picturesque community on the shore of Lake Michigan. It is known for its boats, fresh corn at the farmer’s market and the country’s oldest velodrome. However, everything changed when Kenosha burst into the national spotlight in 2020. Jacob Blake, 29, a father of three, was […]
Karl Tapales/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two years after the launch of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, 10 million contacts have been answered, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. “That’s 10 million people who, often on the worst day of their life, had a resource to reach out to,” Hannah […]
fstop123/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Facing high fines and potential jail time for providing abortions, Dr. Jennifer Smith, an OB-GYN in Missouri, has had to refer patients out of state. “I’ve had a patient bleeding through her clothes in the second trimester who had to drive to Illinois for care, because in Missouri, we couldn’t […]
ABC (UKRAINE) — It can be difficult to sleep in Kharkiv. Ukraine’s second-largest city is now under continuous attack, its residents waking many nights to the sounds of huge blasts. Less than 20 miles from the border with Russia, Kharkiv has become known around the world as a symbol of Ukraine’s resistance. Two years ago, […]
Carl Iwasaki/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In the Mississippi Delta, farms, wildlife refuges and churches dot the landscape alongside the Magnolia State’s country highways. In some ways, the region looks on the surface in 2024 as it did in 1954. Yet a quick drive reveals that even though the area’s population has long been on […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As they sat in the lobby of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Washington, D.C., last month, Garnell Whitfield Jr. and others who have lost relatives nationwide to gun violence listened as U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland helped dedicate an exhibit honoring those killed. Garland […]
Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Millions of Americans are still experiencing long COVID more than four years since the global COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic. According to the most recent federal Household Pulse Survey, between Jan. 9, and Feb. 5, 6.8% of U.S. adults currently have long COVID and 17.6% have had long COVID. […]
belterz/Getty Images (LONDON) — Instead of sending a deluge of troops into Avdiivka to overpower the Ukrainians holding the frontline city, Russian forces earlier this month instead began sending in just a few soldiers at a time. Two or three Russians would storm Ukrainian positions within city, followed about a half-hour later by two or […]
Mint Images/Getty Images (ORLANDO) — Nearly a decade after a Florida State University Law School professor was shot to death at his home while sitting in his car, his family said they are relieved. On Monday, a Florida jury found Charlie Adelson guilty of concocting a plot with a former girlfriend and hiring two men […]
