Before Shark Week and ‘Jaws,’ World War II spawned America’s shark obsession

Every summer on the Discovery Channel, “Shark Week” inundates its eager audiences with spectacular documentary footage of sharks hunting, feeding and leaping. Debuting in 1988, the...

Global food prices fall for 1st time in 12 months: UN body

ANKARA – World food prices fell in June for the first time in 12 months, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday. Following...

July 19 ‘Freedom Day’: Boris Johnson’s biggest gamble is trusting the public

There is a reason that Tom Bower’s biography of Boris Johnson is subtitled “The Gambler”. The book details the life of a Teflon-coated politician who seemingly...

Global Covid-19 death toll exceeds 4M: WHO

GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said it has recorded over four million Covid-19-related deaths globally, but the organization’s Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, added...

With rising human drug use, a collateral rise of dogs ingesting cannabis and opioids

In the past few years, opioids and cannabinoids have received a great deal of attention from the media and public health authorities. The dangers of opioids...

The history of ‘Israel’ and ‘Palestine’: Alternative names, competing claims

On May 21, the airstrikes ended, the rockets stopped and the street fighting between Jewish and Arab Israelis abated as Israel and the militant Islamist group...

US Black and Latino communities often have low vaccination rates – but blaming vaccine hesitancy misses the mark

By early July 2021, nearly two-thirds of all U.S. residents 12 years and older had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine; 55% were...

Yes, US states did get more money from Washington than they needed for COVID-19 relief

Across the country, states got huge infusions of cash from the federal government to help them deal with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; the most...

Slain Haitian president faced calls for resignation, sustained mass protests before killing

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in the early morning hours of July 7, 2021, in a brazen attack on his private home outside Port-au-Prince, the...

Should the Supreme Court have term limits?