Alert: Passenger on a previous Titan submersible dive testified his mission was aborted underwater due to apparent malfunction
Passenger on a previous Titan submersible dive testified his mission was aborted underwater due to apparent malfunction.
Bridgeport man charged with murder in daylight shooting on Spring Street, police say
Bridgeport police have charged 46-year-old Roshay Williams in the targeted killing of 37-year-old Akeem Shoucair-Grant on ...
US will let more people take methadone at home
The new federal rules allow stable patients to take home 28 days’ worth of methadone. Colorado, New York and Massachusetts ...
Nepal’s revamped truth commissions will need to go beyond ‘ritualism’ to deliver justice to civil war victims
The two main bodies involved — the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons — were created by Nepal’s government in 2015 to deal ...
Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone
People use the wind phone to “call” and have a one-way conversation with deceased loved ones. Here they can say the things left unsaid. Wind phones offer a setting for the person to tell the story of ...
Half of Black gay men will be diagnosed with HIV, despite highly effective preventive treatments − why?
Black gay and bisexual men made up about 38% of the estimated 37,981 new HIV diagnoses in the U.S. in 2022. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 50% of these men ...
As bears in CT get ready for fall 'power-eating marathon,' officials warn of dangers
Connecticut residents need to be vigilant as bears begin their pre-hibernation “power-eating marathon,” environmental experts ...
College can be confusing for first-generation students – but it doesn’t have to be
That’s right. On average, early adulthood is more secure — in terms of career, family, health and a host of other outcomes — for college graduates. What we often miss, though, is the insecurity that ...
Gentrification isn’t inevitable − it can hinge on how residents view their neighborhood
Common understandings of gentrification and urban development often frame these urban processes as natural, linear and even inevitable for low-income neighborhoods. The argument goes that once you see ...
Self-forgiveness is more than self-comfort − a philosopher explains
Douglas Stewart, a philosopher of education who has researched forgiveness extensively, writes that to forgive implies a willingness to let go of our negative emotions or hard feelings and to adopt in ...
Trump and Harris vocabularies signal their different frames of mind
Harris had nine “future” statements, all of which were about what she intends to do. For example, she said, “And when I am president, we will do that for all people, understanding that the value I ...
Men are carrying the brunt of the ‘loneliness epidemic’ amid potent societal pressures
As partners and fathers, men are still often perceived as deficient if they can’t provide economically. And societal norms stress that they are not valued for their capacity as caregivers, even if ...