Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, a liberal icon who lost the most lopsided presidential election after bluntly telling voters to expect a tax increase if he won, died Monday. He was 93.
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The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million people Saturday amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France.
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The estate of a 36-year-old woman with hypertension who died while in pretrial detention in Covington County Jail may pursue deliberate indifference, failure to train and civil rights claims against several defendants, a federal court in Alabama ruled. The woman had repeatedly asked for medical assistance in the weeks before her death and was only given aspirin.
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A Fourth Circuit panel Tuesday reversed a grant of qualified immunity to several sheriff’s deputies in Virginia, ruling they failed to act on an intoxicated man’s obvious medical needs before he was found dead in a jail cell.
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A federal court in Louisiana denied a correctional officer’s request to dismiss claims brought by the family of a 19-year-old woman with a serious blood disease who was denied her medicine and medical attention, despite being seen sitting on the floor of the shower surrounded by blood, and died in pretrial detention.
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Pandemic lockdowns and stay-at-home orders kept many drivers off U.S. roads and highways last year. But those who did venture out found open lanes that only invited reckless driving, leading to a sharp increase in traffic-crash deaths across the country.
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Serious pollution is causing premature deaths in the world’s five most populous cities.
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One expert likened the life-expectancy plunge to data not seen since World War II, and it is the largest gap between Black and white Americans since 1998.
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A 7-year-old boy has died in eastern Switzerland after a homemade igloo collapsed on him and his father, police said Wednesday.
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Fossil fuel pollution caused more than eight million premature deaths in 2018, accounting for nearly 20% of adult mortality worldwide, researchers reported Tuesday.
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Deaths on French roads dropped to their lowest level since World War II last year as Covid-19 restrictions sharply reduced car traffic, the national road safety agency said on Friday.
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New York may have undercounted Covid-19 deaths of nursing home residents by as much as 50%, the state’s attorney general said in a report released Thursday.
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Almost half a million people have died in natural disasters linked to extreme weather events in the last 20 years, according to a new assessment of the direct threat posed to humanity by climate change.
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A 58-year-old French woman, who was wrongfully declared dead in a long-running dispute with a former employee, goes to court Monday in the city of Lyon to try resurrect her existence.
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As communities across the country feel the pain of a surge in coronavirus cases, funeral homes in the hot spot of Southern California say they must turn away grieving families as they run out of space for the bodies piling up.
Read moreAn appeals court in Texas ruled that a woman was properly awarded damages in her emotional distress and deceptive trade practices suit against a funeral home that allegedly buried her newborn daughter in a “food cooler wrapped closed with duct tape.” The woman believed her daughter would be buried in a traditional casket.
Read moreA federal court in California granted a preliminary injunction to a group of “end of life doulas” in their lawsuit challenging the California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau’s demands they become licensed funeral directors. The doulas, associated with the nonprofit the Full Circle of LIving and Dying, offer “advice, counseling and other services to families and loved ones of those who are dying.”
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Russia’s updated statistics on coronavirus-linked deaths showed that over 100,000 people with Covid-19 had died in the pandemic by December, a number much higher than previously reported by government officials.
Read moreThe death of Legal Marijuana Now Party candidate Adam Weeks, who was vying for a Minnesota congressional seat when he died, is “not the sort of exigent circumstance” that allows the state to refrain from holding the election for that seat, the Eighth Circuit ruled.
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Long-term exposure to air pollution may be linked to 15% of Covid-19 deaths globally, according to research published Tuesday that highlights the health risks posed by greenhouse gas emissions.
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