| Newsletter continues after sponsor message | | | NPR’s Claire Harbage and Fatma Tanis spent a week in September speaking with more than two dozen women in several refugee camps in Chad, which is now home to over 600,000 people who have fled Sudan. The women said that the adult men in their families — their husbands, fathers, adult sons, and brothers — were almost always missing. Some men had disappeared, been killed by the Rapid Support Forces to prevent them from defending themselves and their families, or had been conscripted by the Sudanese army. The conflict has displaced over 13 million people and resulted in what the United Nations is calling the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. |
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| Drug overdose deaths are down 12.7%, as per CDC data released this week. If the trend continues, this year could be the first since 2020 to see overdose deaths drop below 100,000. |
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| Vikash Yadav, a former Indian intelligence official, is facing U.S. federal charges for allegedly planning to assassinate an American citizen in New York City. The intended victim is a leader in the movement for an independent Sikh homeland. |
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| Recently released body camera footage shows Tyron McAlpin, a deaf Black man with cerebral palsy, allegedly being beaten and tased by Phoenix police officers in August 2024. This comes after a DOJ report found evidence of discrimination by Phoenix police against Black, Hispanic, and Native American individuals. |
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