Despite a record 46-day streak of triple digit feels-like temperatures, Miami’s unprecedented brutal summer last year wasn’t that deadly, contrasting with the rest of the nation where federal records show heat fatalities nationally spiked to a 45-year high. When Jane Gilbert took over three years ago as the county’s heat officer, one of the first in an increasingly warmer nation, …
In August 2022, two days before he was due to appear at an event in Chautauqua, a small town in upstate New York, Sir Salman Rushdie had a dream. ‘At a quarter to eleven on August 12, 2022, on a sunny Friday morning in upstate New York, I was attacked and almost killed by a young man with a knife …
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. A source familiar with the Zero Unit program said it "stayed in close contact with a network of tribal elders," who alerted program officials when civilians were killed. The CIA, he said, provided the logistics, intelligence and money in cash, and the Zero Units "conduct" the raids and "deliver" the target, with U.S. …
