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Darren Walker, the outgoing president of the Ford Foundation, has had a far-reaching and profound impact on the philanthropic sector

Brazil’s Forest Service announced a plan to bring a massive area of Amazon rainforest currently vulnerable to illegal deforestation under national governance Tuesday

Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops who responded after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks

Puerto Rico has lost nearly half of its doctors in just over a decade, according to a 2023 report, as the healthcare system is grappling with severe understaffing, power outages, and lower wages compared to the mainland U.S. That's why one doctor, Pedro Juan Vázquez, who is better known by…

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The head of an oversight board that investigates allegations of misconduct by New York City police officers has announced her resignation, ending a tenure in which she had publicly criticized the NYPD’s handling of a major disciplinary case

The right-wing Colorado congresswoman said she wanted confirmation that the president was alive

Melanie Georger, who dreamed of flying for commercial airlines, was only person onboard after passengers jumped

A Russian court says it has convicted Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, of spreading false information about the Russian military and sentenced her to 6½ years in prison following a secret trial