This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. When a firefighter dies in the line of duty, a small team of federal health workers is often called on to pinpoint what went wrong...
Ben Parker BBC News, Suffolk PA Hannah and Mike Lynch were among seven people who died when the Bayesian sank A coroner has said criminal investigations need to finish before a full inquest can start into the deaths of four people when a yacht sank off the coast of Sicily. Tech tycoon Mike Lynch, 59,...
Dominic Hughes Global health correspondent Getty Images Escherichia coli bacteria – also known as E. coli, the bug that causes food poisoning – is one of the bacteria that is showing greater resistance to front-line antibiotics More than three million children around the world are thought to have died in 2022 as a result of...
A police officer driving a van who followed two teenagers before they both died in an e-bike crash in Cardiff, will not face criminal charges, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says. The CPS said there was insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction. The driver of the police van, along with another officer...
On Thursday, the Senate rejected Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vermont) resolutions to block the sale of $8.8 billion in weapons to Israel by an even wider margin than in similar votes last year — despite Israel having since violated the Gaza ceasefire agreement. The Senate’s opposition to the resolutions comes as Israel has maintained a total...
Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will travel to Thailand for a regional summit as his country reels from an earthquake that killed thousands and left cities in ruins. The earthquake in central Myanmar last Friday killed 3,085 people and injured 4,715, the junta has said. Hundreds more are missing and the toll is expected...