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The country’s largest insurers spent $120 billion on stock buybacks since 2010, with nearly half of that spent by UnitedHealth.

Moldy mattresses, 24/7 lights and constant noise contribute to a persistent health and safety crisis in prisons and jails.

A disgraced chiropractor found a new job selling bodies. In an industry with few guardrails, he soon faced accusations of mishandling human remains.

Why that little payment screen wants you to feel guilt

Gender-sensitive climate finance could unlock more efficient pathways for adaptation, resilience, and decarbonization. But, while the texts produced at the latest UN Climate Change Conference reflect some awareness of this, they lack the kinds of provisions needed to ensure implementation at scale.

Promotion offered casino games without knowing if customers were in recovery for gambling addiction, say campaigners

While so many Americans struggle to get by, the US is spending record-breaking amounts of money on the military

Border Guards Use Force, Deny Access to Asylum Procedures

• Polish law enforcement is unlawfully, and sometimes violently, forcing people trying to enter the country back to Belarus without considering their protection needs.
• Poland’s inhumane and illegal pushbacks of people seeking safety fly in the face of its duties under national and EU law and basic humanity.
• Polish authorities should ensure access to the asylum procedure and allow aid workers and independent observers access to the currently restricted border area.

Civilians Killed, Towns Destroyed in Rapid Support Forces Attacks

• The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militias carried out numerous abuses against civilians in Habila county in Sudan’s South Kordofan state from December 2023 to March 2024, during conflict with the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement–North.
• The abuses constitute war crimes and included killings, rapes, and abductions of ethnic Nuba residents, as well as the looting and destruction of homes. They led to mass displacement, turning Habila and neighboring Fayu into ghost towns.
• The United Nations and the African Union should urgently deploy a mission to protect civilians in Sudan.

Megachurches and “gigachurches” with upwards of 10,000 congregants are proliferating in the U.S.—with the help of tactics favored by Fortune 500 companies.

Grave errors like this, called never events, aren’t as rare as they might seem.

Several recent schemes were uncovered involving poker players at casinos allegedly using miniature cameras, concealed in personal electronics, to spot cards. Should players everywhere be concerned?

Investors buying into claims against governments are winning huge payouts. Developing nations, and the environment, are losing big.

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The Nazis feared journalist Carl von Ossietzky so much they sent him to a concentration camp. Could winning the Nobel Peace Prize save his life?

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More women and children are drowning trying to reach the US as Texas and Mexico militarize the border. Record requests reveal the soaring death toll in the Rio Grande amid official undercounts.

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• The Washington Post: Border drownings rose as migrants rushed to cross and Texas clamped down