Climate change-fueled wildfires are costing the US economy between $394 billion to $893 billion annually, a new congressional report suggests – a shocking figure that is more than double what previous government reports have estimated.
Ahmed Arafat, a 26-year-old Palestinian-American, is doing everything he can to keep his small family safe from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. Meanwhile, all his family in Tennessee can do is sit by the phone and pray. They hope he’ll be able to escape through the border and find safety in Egypt.
Zaher walks calmly across what used to be his village, now reduced to piles of rubble. Standing on top of a mound of sand, he locates his home – or rather, what little is left of it.
A Chicago-area landlord was arrested and charged with murder and hate crimes after authorities said he stabbed and killed a 6-year-old boy and seriously wounded his mother, allegedly because the tenants are Muslim.