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Left: A Palestinian woman cries at the garden of Al-Ahli Arabi Baptist Hospital after it was hit in Gaza City, Gaza on Oct. 18. Right: After an attack by Hamas on a kibbutz near the Gaza border, a swing is left intact while most of this family's house is in ruins. Five family members were kidnapped.

The Middle East crisis is stirring up a 'tsunami' of mental health woes

The Israel-Gaza conflict is likely to leave people in the region struggling with trauma-related mental health symptoms for a long time to come.

Attorney General Garland is 18 months into his promise to return the DOJ to normal

Nearly 18 months into his tenure at DOJ, Attorney General Merrick Garland faces consequential decisions about the Jan. 6 attack and former President Donald Trump.

Morning news brief

Israeli airstrike hits Gaza's largest refugee camp. Donald Trump Jr. to testify Wednesday in civil fraud trail. It's Pakistan's deadline for all undocumented immigrants to leave or face deportation.

FILE - Ralph Birch, left, and Shawn Henning, speak to the press on the steps of Connecticut Superior Court in Torrington, Conn., Friday, July 10, 2020. A federal judge on Friday, July 21, 2024, has found famed forensic scientist Henry Lee liable for fabricating evidence in a murder case that sent the two men to prison, one for more than three decades, for a crime they did not commit. Birch and Henning were convicted of felony murder in the Dec. 1, 1985, slaying of 65-year-old Everett Carr, of New Milford, based in part on false testimony about blood stains on a towel.

Connecticut agrees to a $25 million settlement in the Henry Lee evidence fabrication case

Connecticut’s attorney general has agreed to a $25.2 million settlement with two men who spent decades in prison for murder, based partly on evidence presented by famed forensic scientist Henry Lee that a judge later found was fabricated.

A construction worker carries a sawhorse in front of a building being renovated in the Colonial Village public housing complex in Norwalk.

New apartment construction ramps up in CT, as single-family home stock dwindles

Connecticut was one of six states to have an increase in housing permits in the first half of 2023. New Haven and Bridgeport areas led the state in the number of new permits.

The unemployment for young people in China hits a record high in May

The latest figures in China show that the unemployment rate for young people ages 16 to 24 hit a record high at 20.8%. That is more then one in five without a job. What's behind it?

The British monarchy remains popular among Americans, poll finds

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on a poll that asks Americans to rate public figures, both at home and abroad.

An Hour With Chef Gregory Gourdet

We talk with Top Chef guest judge and James Beard Award nominee Gregory Gourdet about his Haitian heritage, his early life cooking in New York City, sobriety, and his desire to make restaurants safe, inclusive, equitable places to work.

Buildings in the Manhattan skyline shrouded in smoke from Canada wildfires at sunrise in Jersey City, New Jersey, on Weds., June 7, 2023. New York was the most polluted major city in the world on Tuesday night, as smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed the city in haze.

Photos: Extreme Canadian wildfire smoke shrouds parts of U.S.

Unhealthy air quality grips the East Coast reaching as far south as North and South Carolina.

Massive forest fires raging in central Chile have killed more than 100 people

President Gabriel Boric on Sunday warned that the death toll "will increase significantly." The fires burned with the highest intensity around the city of Viña del Mar.

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