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New York City Will No Longer Shelter Many Migrant Adults After 30 Days

A legal agreement scales back the longstanding requirement that the city provide shelter to homeless people who seek it. Families…

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Families Are Moved From Shelter Where Police Fired Stun Gun at Migrant

Several families, including that of the man who recorded a video of officers using a stun gun on a migrant…

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Why a $25 Million Plan to Relocate N.Y.C. Migrant Families Is Struggling

A program designed to resettle 1,250 families across New York State has moved only about 170 households, barely easing the…

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Can Domestic Violence Victims Have Safety Without Secrecy?

I once visited a domestic violence shelter in New England. It was a small, nondescript Cape Cod-style house, jammed between…

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Nearly 2,000 Migrants Are Evacuated From Brooklyn Tent Shelter Before Storm

New York City evacuated on Tuesday about 500 families with children — nearly 2,000 people in total — from a…

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New York City Hid Realities of Homelessness Crisis, Report Finds

City officials manipulated public data for years and delayed reporting that homeless families had stayed overnight at an intake center…

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North Korea Fires Artillery Near Border With South Korea

The South asked nearby islanders to seek shelter before it launched a military exercise in the disputed waters and chided…

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Behind 94 Acts of Shocking Violence, Years of Glaring Mistakes

New York officials have escaped scrutiny for repeated failures to help homeless mentally ill people, a New York Times investigation…

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At least 24 people were killed in a strike on Gaza school used as a shelter, the U.N. says.

A strike this weekend on a school run by the United Nations that was being used for shelter by thousands…

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Travel

An ‘Unimaginable’ Death Toll Among Anchorage’s Homeless Residents

With hundreds living outdoors and temperatures plummeting, Alaska’s largest city is struggling to halt a rising death toll among homeless…

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