Children who lost a parent that day share a burden of grief, prying questions and ubiquitous footage of the disaster that killed their parentsRobyn Higley has always hated September. It’s the month when everything bad happens, when her spirits, general…
Afghanistan: resistance leader says he wants peace talks with Taliban
Ahmad Massoud, whose forces are fighting the Islamist militants in Panjshir valley, says he wants ‘lasting peace’The leader of the Afghan opposition group resisting Taliban forces in the Panjshir valley has said he welcomes proposals from religious sch…
Greenville residents find remnants of former lives as they return home after Dixie fire
A photographer captures moments as residents return: ‘I’m doing what I can, which is to take pictures and have the story be told’As some families in Greenville, California started to return home this week after the Dixie fire tore through this town of …
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon review – B-movie thrills in New Orleans superhero gumbo
The new film from Ana Lily Amirpour will keep the fans happy with the tale of mind-controlling waitress on the loose the French QuarterIranian-American director Ana Lily Amirpour serves up heaped spoonfuls of B-movie thrills in Mona Lisa and the Blood …
Divers rush to locate source of reported oil spill in Gulf after Hurricane Ida
Coast Guard says suspected oil spill spotted in Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Ida wreaked havoc in region last weekClean up crews are rushing to try to locate the source of a suspected oil spill spotted in the Bay Marchard area of the Gulf of Mexico o…
‘Cardinal Keith O’Brien was like God to me. Then he tried to seduce me’: the whistleblower’s tale
As disgraced cardinal Theodore McCarrick faces trial in the US, an ex-priest tells of how he testified against the Scottish cardinalAs disgraced 91-year-old cardinal Theodore McCarrick stood in an American court last week, charged with three counts of …
How a Tahoe refuge saved owls, coyotes and raccoons from wildfire
Wildfires take a devastating toll on local animals. A Lake Tahoe refuge made sure its creatures didn’t suffer the same fateGreg Erfani watched the flames grow bigger and bigger as they crept toward Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care, the animal refuge he helps r…
Bosses turn to ‘tattleware’ to keep tabs on employees working from home
The pandemic prompted a surge in the use of workplace surveillance programs – and they’re not going away any time soonDavid, 23, admits that he felt a twinge of relief when the first wave of Covid-19 shut down his Arlington, Virginia, office. A recent …
New York mayor: Ida devastation shows need to prepare for ‘very, very worst’
Dozens died across the north-east as the storm system passed through and the climate crisis makes extreme weather more likelyAs the north-eastern US reeled from catastrophic damage caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, politicians and city officials…
Partisan gerrymandering has empowered a hard-right turn in Texas
Republicans are steamrolling a series of extremist laws, undeterred by demographic shifts in the state favoring DemocratsTexas lawmakers have taken the state’s long history of chest-thumping conservatism to new levels over the last few months.Republica…