It Took Decades For Me To Realize My Identity Was A Lie. I Was Prepared For Pain — But Not This
“I have traded my fears for freedom,” the author writes.
I am a 66-year-old transgender man. The fact that I can make that statement seemed an impossibility not so long ago.
Growing up in an era wh… [read more]
Canadian fishing boat rescues American fisherman from missing vessel based in Washington state
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A Canadian fishing boat rescued an American man one day after the U.S. Coast Guard ended its search for a missing commercial fishing boat from Washington state with two… [read more]
What we know about the victims in the Lewiston Maine mass shooting
Law enforcement officers carry rifles near an emergency department entrance at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine, on Thursday. This week’s mass shooting in Lewiston left 18 people dead.… [read more]
How a Tiny Team of Journalists Held the World’s Biggest Fishing Fleet to Account
ABOARD THE OCEAN WARRIOR on the South Atlantic On the high seas roughly a thousand miles north of the Falkland Islands, an 18-year-old deckhand working on a Chinese squid ship nervously ducked into a… [read more]
At Least 27 Dead After Destructive Hurricane Otis Hits Acapulco Mexico
(ACAPULCO, Mexico) Mexican authorities gave the first human toll for Hurricane Otis’ destruction along the country’s Pacific coast Thursday: at least 27 dead and four missing.
Tens of thousands of r… [read more]
USPS touts crackdown on postal crime carrier robberies with hundreds of arrests
With mail theft and postal carrier robberies up, law enforcement officials have made more than 600 arrests since May in a crackdown launched to address crime that includes carriers being accosted at … [read more]
What is a privacy-focused Android phone?
Privacy is one of those things everyone seems to care about, yet most people don’t really do anything to protect it. I’m talking about our phones, of course, which not only do plenty of cool things b… [read more]
Mangrove forests: Steely gaze of young tigress wins photo awards
Soham Bhattacharyya has been named overall winner of this year’s Mangrove Photography Awards, for his image of an endangered tigress in the Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve, India.
Image source, Soham B… [read more]
Hurricane Norma takes aim at Mexico’s Los Cabos resorts as Tammy threatens islands in the Atlantic
CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — Residents of Mexicos Los Cabos resorts rushed to prepare as Hurricane Norma headed toward the southern tip of Mexicos Baja California Peninsula for an expected landfall Satu… [read more]
Two men are airlifted from the middle of the ocean after a tiny but deadly jellyfish stings them
Two men were fishing 12 miles off the coast of Australia earlier this month when they were stung by a rare, dime-sized Irukandji jellyfish one of the most venomous sea creatures in the world. As a st… [read more]