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Chloe Stevens struggled with suicidal thoughts after her brother's death. She uses an overnight suicide prevention walk to turn her pain into purpose. → Read More
The lightning fried Amber Escudero-Kontostathis’s nerves, melted her skin and stopped her heart. But the lone survivor tells herself, “I’m the lucky one.” → Read More
Yale students and alumni allege that the university pressures those who are suicidal or struggling with mental health problems to withdraw → Read More
A witness reveals new details about the shooting Sunday that left three University of Virginia football players dead. → Read More
At Yale, suicidal students are pressured to withdraw, then must apply to get back into the university -- an approach under increasing attack from mental health activists and alumni → Read More
Zach Chafos languished for a total of 76 days in a Maryland ER waiting for a psychiatric bed -- part of a growing mental health treatment crisis for teens across the country → Read More
Dozens of people have jumped to their deaths from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge since it opened in 1952. Could Cheryl Rogers keep her son from becoming one of them? → Read More
Saint Mary Mother of God Parish in D.C.’s Chinatown was told that by Sept. 21, it was to cease use of Latin rituals. → Read More
After struggling to get treatment for her mentally ill son, a mother’s act of desperation: giving up custody. → Read More
A third man was fatally shot Friday night in Northeast, police said. → Read More
Patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome are often misdiagnosed or dismissed as hypochondriacs. That’s what happened to Dr. Alissa Zingman. → Read More
Jeneffer Estampador Haynes always tried to protect her younger brother, John, who had Down syndrome. Then she lost him to the pandemic and lost herself, too. → Read More
Deadly gun violence Saturday night in Northwest D.C. was followed hours later by another incident in Southeast. → Read More
After dodging bullets, bombs and Taliban fighters, Afghan evacuees now must live with choices they made amid the chaos. → Read More
Mohammad Sadeed is back in Philadelphia, but his wife and five children are trapped in Kabul, where the Afghan immigrants could be deemed traitors by the Taliban. → Read More
Even before Saturday’s earthquake, Haiti was already reeling from crises following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse last month. → Read More
The death of Lisa Grim’s 37-year-old husband not only devastated her and her two sons emotionally, it has broken them financially → Read More
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who lost her older brother to covid-19, is sponsoring a bill in the Senate to create a national day of remembrance for those lost during the pandemic. → Read More
Families want a national covid remembrance day, but turning their grief into political power is proving difficult. → Read More
After decades of chronic underfunding, U.S. public health departments last year showed how ill-equipped they are to carry out basic functions, let alone serve as the last line of defense against a pandemic. → Read More