Explore More WASHINGTON – US officials acknowledged Thursday their worry that Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout — known as the “Merchant of Death,” — would return to his former ways after he was released in a prisoner swap that secured the return of WNBA player Brittney Griner to America.
“I think there is a concern that he would return to doing the same kind of work that he’s done in the past,” a senior defense official said, referring to Bout’s work in Africa, where his client list included Liberian warlord Charles Taylor, longtime Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and both sides in Angola’s 26-year-long civil war. Read More...
Rachel Hardeman has dedicated her career to fighting racism and the harm it has inflicted on the health of Black Americans. As a reproductive health equity researcher, she has been especially disturbed by the disproportionately high mortality rates for Black babies.
In an effort to find some of the reasons behind the high death rates, Hardeman, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and three other researchers combed through the records of 1. Read More...
Explore More A Bronx sergeant who stole the heart of a stunning colleague and had a child with her was treated like a criminal by jealous fellow cops — who ‘investigated’ the identity of the baby-daddy like it was a criminal case, according to a lawsuit. Sgt. Milton Valerio, 40, met Anajess Alvarez — who was the NYPD’s poster cop in a series of recruitment billboards — at the transit station house where the two worked near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx in 2019. Read More...