The United States passed one million COVID-related deaths this week. It's now the third-leading cause of death in the country.President Joe Biden traveled to Buffalo to visit a community devastated by a racist attack that claimed the lives of ten Bla... Details

On Saturday, a shooter targeted shoppers at the only Black-run grocery store in Buffalo, New York. Ten people were killed and three were injured. Eleven of the victims were African American.The racist attack left residents of Buffalo and America reel... Details

As the nationwide infant formula shortage continues, parents are scrambling to feed their children.43 percent of formula is sold out nationwide as retailers struggle to keep it on the shelves. That's according to Datasembley, which collects real-time... Details

With the Supreme Court set to roll back federal protections for abortions, protesters have mobilized across the country. A new report by Reveal looks into the growing number of calls to police from abortion clinics in Florida. It found that reports o... Details

There have been nearly 200 mass shootings in the first 5 months of 2022, including a shooting at a Buffalo grocery store that left 10 dead. And incidents near a public school in Washington D.C. and on the New York City subway in April have the public... Details

On the Greek island of Lesvos, refugees from the nearby Moria camp gathered in a fish restaurant for lunch. The owners had converted the restaurant to a nonprofit dedicated to feeding refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere. Familie... Details

Senate Democrats put forward a bill to codify Roe v. Wade after a leaked draft of a majority opinion suggested the Supreme Court was poised to overturn the landmark abortion access case. The effort failed. Elon Musk said that he would reverse Preside... Details

According to the Cremation Association of North America (CANA), 56 percent of Americans who died in 2020 were cremated.That's more than twice the rate two decades ago.What's behind this surge? And what does it suggest about the way our cultural value... Details

Thanks in large part to the pandemic, home prices are soaring. In March, the median hit a record high of over $370,000. One affordable housing option is the mobile home. Around 22 million Americans live in a mobile or manufactured house. It's the la... Details

As abortion gets harder and harder to access in the U.S., Latin America is moving in the opposite direction. In December 2020, Argentina legalized abortion up to 14 weeks and became the largest nation south of the U.S. to do so. Mexico and Colombia's... Details

There's one person with the power to end the war in Ukraine in an instant: Russian President Vladimir Putin. He's a powerful figure, and new reporting on the source of his wealth reveals just how powerful he really is.We discuss Putin's personal fort... Details

While the term self-care was reimagined in the 1980s by Black civil rights activist and feminist Audre Lorde, the concept has been co-opted and commercialized. Has the pandemic changed how we view self-care? What do we get wrong about it? And what do... Details

A leaked draft of a Supreme Court majority opinion suggesting the justices voted to overturn Roe v. Wade leaked this week, sparking nationwide protests in support of federally-protected abortion rights.The Federal Reserve implemented its first half-p... Details

The Midterm elections are six months away and the most recent polling suggests Republicans have an early edge. If they take the House, Rep. Kevin McCarthy is likely to become the majority leader. He garnered attention in the past two weeks when The N... Details

A leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion suggests that the justices have voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, eliminating 50 years of federal abortion protections.Whatever the court decides, abortion laws are already changing across the United States. ... Details

The Ohio primary kicks off a month of similar contests in vital swing states from Pennsylvania to Georgia. And there's one unofficial candidate on the ballot: former President Donald Trump.According to a New York Times count, the former president has... Details

For almost all of us, $44 billion is an amount of money we can't even fathom—let alone access in order to buy one of the largest social media companies in the world. But Elon Musk is poised to do just that. If the deal between Musk and Twitter pans o... Details

Her claim to fame came in 2014 with her fourth novel, "Station Eleven" — a post-apocalyptic pandemic survival tale that's garnered new meaning over the last two years. Now, Emily St. John Mandel is back with her latest work of speculative fiction, "S... Details

Moderna has asked U.S. regulators to authorize low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under six. When can we expect a decision from the F.D.A.?The top infectious disease expert in the U.S., Dr. Anthony Fauci, was forced to clarify remarks he ... Details

This week, Twitter accepted a $44 billion buyout offer from Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk. As part of the purchase, Musk, who calls himself a "free speech absolutist," will gain total control of the company. And it's raising questions about how ... Details