July 14, 2026
(NYT) – A.I. chatbots are not just a propaganda tool for violent extremists but are aiding in bomb construction and attack planning, new research finds. Until recently, the Islamic State, Al Qaeda and other extremists primarily used A.I. in the … Read More
July 3, 2026
(Illinois Public Media) – Illinois aid-in-dying law is set to take effect in September. It’s meant to give terminally ill patients a medical way to end their lives. But opponents call it “assisted suicide,” and they’ve joined with disability advocates … Read More
July 1, 2026
(Wired) – The maps and images show the extent of destruction and give rescue operations a tool to find any remaining survivors. Satellite Technology Is being used to streamline rescue efforts in Venezuela following the two earthquakes that struck on … Read More
July 1, 2026
(Church Life Journal) – I do not for one moment deny the importance of just war theory and its venerable tradition of thought, which continue to provide much guidance for Christians and others of good will. But just war theory … Read More
June 19, 2026
(NYT) – The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was mild. In ancient Siberian graves, scientists have discovered the oldest traces of one of humanity’s greatest enemies. Examining skeletons of … Read More
June 15, 2026
(Reuters) – Warfare in Ukraine and beyond faces a paradigm shift in the coming years as artificial intelligence systems integrate into unified networks that speed up decisions on the battlefield, a senior Ukrainian official said. Ukraine, in the fifth year … Read More
May 25, 2026
(NPR) – The COVID-19 pandemic introduced people across the U.S. to a global health emergency that they may have never imagined. That experience is coloring how some people are thinking about Ebola and hantavirus, public health and infectious disease experts … Read More
April 20, 2026
(NYT) – Ukraine is using unmanned ground vehicles armed with bombs, guns or rockets to carry out attacks and keep its soldiers out of harm’s way. As the remotely controlled vehicles approached the enemy soldiers, an aerial drone flew in … Read More
April 16, 2026
(404 Media) – Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pitching his country as a global leader in robots for war and defense. Will the world listen? Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy praised robots as the future of war in a Defense Industry Worker Day … Read More
March 10, 2026
(The Walrus) – There was satellite imagery, survivor testimony, and mass graves. Still, the world looked away from Sudan Statistics here are so overwhelming they can feel meaningless. And in a way, they are. Today’s war, if discussed at all, … Read More
March 3, 2026
(The Guardian) – The use of AI tools to enable attacks on Iran heralds a new era of bombing quicker than “the speed of thought”, experts have said, amid fears human decision-makers could be sidelined. Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, was … Read More
January 26, 2026
(SF Gate) – Nearly six years later, a generation of first-year college students is still feeling the fallout, shaped by years of online high school, isolation and disrupted learning during some of their most formative years. Even as college life … Read More
January 21, 2026
(Hastings Center) – On the threshold of the fifth year of full-scale war, we find ourselves in a reality where human life is questioned every day. In a country where the enemy systematically devalues the very concept of dignity — … Read More
January 19, 2026
(NPR) – About a quarter of the Israeli soldiers killed in the war in Gaza had their sperm retrieved after death. Hundreds of young Israeli soldiers were killed in the Gaza war these last few years. Their families were asked … Read More
January 6, 2026
(New York Times) – The move against the medical aid group enforces policies limiting criticism of Israel’s conduct in the war and requiring personal details about Gazan employees. Doctors Without Borders, the international medical aid group, said Tuesday that Israel … Read More
January 2, 2026
(MedPage Today) – Dozens of humanitarian organizations are suspended from operating Israel on Tuesday said it had suspended more than two dozen humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and CARE, from operating in the Gaza Strip for failing to comply … Read More
December 18, 2025
(Los Angeles Times) – In the first 90 days after the Palisades and Eaton fires erupted in January, the caseload at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s emergency room looked different from the norm. There were 46% more visits for heart attacks than … Read More
October 29, 2025
(New York Times) – The hospital had served as the last refuge for many starving or injured civilians in El Fasher, a major battleground in Darfur recently seized by the Rapid Support Forces. The World Health Organization said it had … Read More
October 3, 2025
(CT) – A tragic accident jump-started my relationship with God. It also made me question his goodness. I spent a lot of time in the hospital wondering just what kind of God this was. I had no doubt that God … Read More
September 25, 2025
(BBC) – Doctors at one of Gaza City’s last functioning hospitals say they are overwhelmed with casualties from Israeli strikes and are having to carry out operations in filthy conditions with few or no anaesthetics. One Australian medic volunteering at … Read More
September 2, 2025
(Reuters) – The World Health Organization has run out of critical medical supplies in Gaza that it needs to treat a surge in cases of a rare paralysis-causing syndrome in the Palestinian enclave, the U.N. agency said on Friday. There … Read More
August 22, 2025
(The Guardian) – Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare. (Read More)
August 22, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Official designation by leading food-security experts adds to pressure on Israel International food-security experts said a famine has taken hold around Gaza City, the first-ever such determination in the Middle East and one that puts more … Read More
August 13, 2025
(BBC) – The women at the community kitchen in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher are sitting in huddles of desperation. “Our children are dying before our eyes,” one of them tells the BBC. “We don’t know what to do. … Read More
August 12, 2025
(New York Times) – Science is a method for formulating and testing hypotheses, not a fixed set of facts. It should work alongside other ways of knowing, but it must also be protected from political or commercial capture. Perhaps I’m … Read More
