Progress in vaccinating children against a variety of life-threatening diseases has stalled in the past two decades – and even gone backwards in some countries – a new global study suggests. The situation has been made worse by the Covid pandemic, leaving millions of children unprotected from diseases such as measles, tuberculosis and polio. The researchers...
The first major heatwave of the summer is intensifying across the eastern half of North America, triggering health alerts and disrupting daily life for millions. Heat warnings are in effect from the US Midwest to the East Coast, as well as in parts of Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia in Canada, impacting more than 160...
Helen Bushby Culture reporter at Sheffield Documentary Festival Fish+Bear Pictures Li (left) is posed for a photograph by Hao, during his week-long course in how to attract women To say China’s women are outnumbered would be an understatement. With a staggering 30 million more men than women, one of the world’s most populous countries has...
Double the number of households in Britain will get £150 off their energy bills this winter as the government changes the rules on who qualifies for the Warm Home Discount. Anyone on means-tested benefits will automatically see the money knocked off their bills no matter what size of property they live in. While debt charities...
Chi Chi Izundu and James Stewart BBC News Investigations BBC/Ben Lack/Getty Images “Ticket Queen” Maria Chenery-Woods and Peter Hunter made millions as touts When a judge dismissed an appeal by prolific ticket tout Peter Hunter and his husband and accomplice David Smith against their landmark conviction for fraud, he sounded an alarm. The evidence, he...
Part of the Series Voting Wrongs As part of a broader push to both vilify immigrants and suppress voting rights, Republicans in Congress and multiple states are pushing legislation requiring voters to produce documents, such as passports and birth certificates, to prove their citizenship before registering to participate in elections. Experts are warning that proof...
“Keir Starmer’s government is sacrificing millions of working-class votes for the Labour Party on the altar of big business profits, militarism and war”, Communist Party General Secretary Robert Griffiths told our Party’s Political Committee on Tuesday evening (27 May 2025). “Scores of billions of pounds extra can be found for more nuclear weapons, to...
The reconciliation bill is a “redistribution of resources from struggling Americans to the Pentagon,” an expert said. The over $150 billion allocated for boosting militarization in the U.S. in Republicans’ reconciliation bill could, instead, be used to keep millions of people enrolled in Medicaid and food assistance programs, a new report finds. According to a...
The police watched us. The march leaders chanted, “Tell me what democracy looks like!” We answered, “This is what democracy looks like!” Ducking under signs and umbrellas, I saw us, the left, grim-faced and determined. The gray sky and rain added a heaviness. I pivoted and noted the absence of Black New Yorkers. Where were...
At least 62 soldiers were injured amid the pier operation, with one later dying to his injuries. President Joe Biden’s military pier installed for a short time off the coast of Gaza last year lacked basic planning and was far more dangerous to U.S. soldiers than previously known, a new report finds. The Department of...
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. Just one year ago, JD Vance was a leading advocate of the Great Lakes and the efforts to restore the largest system of freshwater on...
For more than half a century, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a division of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), has worked to improve workplace safety and to study the effects on workers of exposures to toxins such as lead. Its teams of epidemiologists, occupational nurses, specialist doctors, toxins...
Nadine Yousif BBC News Reporting fromVancouver, British Columbia Eloise Alanna/BBC Vancouver has been labelled one of the most “impossibly unaffordable” cities in the world for housing Before Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canada and threatened its sovereignty, the Canadian psyche was consumed with another major issue: housing affordability. With an election on the horizon, voters...
A scheme to support GPs to provide care and advice to patients which avoids them joining long NHS hospital waiting lists is being expanded in England, the government says. GPs will work more closely with specialists to access expert advice quickly for patients with conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, menopause symptoms and ear infections....
Every spring for the past six years, millions of people tune in to a round-the-clock livestream of moose on the move in northern Sweden. “The Great Moose Migration” tracks the animals as they swim across the Angerman River and make their annual journey toward greener, summer pastures. This year’s 24-hour programme from SVT Play, the...