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Pregnant, alone and on the streets: How one woman’s life was saved by kindness
In September 2016, Tendai (last name withheld due to privacy reasons) found herself homeless and sleeping on Hollywood Boulevard. She was pregnant at the time. Originally from East London, the 27-year-old had fled Britain after receiving threatening letters and calls for two years. “The police were aware of it, but things got worse when I became pregnant, […]
Heroes of Hurricane Harvey: The story of Engine 7165
On Aug. 25., Texas began to feel the wrath of Hurricane Harvey as the Category 4 hurricane became the first major hurricane to strike southern Texas since Celia in 1970 — it remains the costliest tropical cyclone on record and the second-costliest natural disaster worldwide, behind only the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, according to data released. 82 were left dead, more than […]
