Emergency physicians and mental health workers in North Carolina have begun to worry that they may be in the midst of a disturbing new trend, accordin...
Sean Gilfillan | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
Why is America insourcing sacrifice to 1% of its population when it is deemed necessary to our national security and interests?
Huffington Post | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
In what is being touted as Israel's most mass-scale war preparation drill ever, 'Turning Point 3' will over the course of five days involve both milit...
Raw Story | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
The commander of Fort Campbell army base in Kentucky has ordered a three-day suspension of regular duties to focus on a spike in suicides among his tr...
Bernard Rowan | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
The death of Roh Moo-hyun is a call for Koreans on all sides of the political spectrum to limit the influence of money on political candidates and their families.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
The slaughter of five comrades by a "stressed out" U.S. soldier today in Baghdad is a true tragedy -- but should not come as a shock.
Telegraph | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
The first indications of a life that has been lost appear within a hundred yards of entering the forest. Scattered across mossy tree roots are a man's...
Stephen Funk | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
If Alyssa Peterson had never been ordered to torture she would still be alive.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
What caused Alyssa Peterson to put a bullet in her head in September 2003 after just a few weeks in Iraq? And why were the press and the public not told about it?
AP | Posted 05.24.2009 | Business
McLEAN, Va. — Medical examiners have completed an autopsy on a Freddie Mac executive found dead in an apparent suicide, but say a final determin...
AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT and ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.24.2009 | Business
McLEAN, Va. — By last fall, the heady days for mortgage giant Freddie Mac were over, and what was left for executives like David Kellermann were...
AP | ALAN ZIBEL and MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 05.23.2009 | Business
UPDATE: 11:55 PM: The Washington Post reports more new information about Kellerman's apparent suicide, including the heartbreaking detail that his wif...
A Pakistan News | Posted 05.18.2009 | World
A suicide bomber was killed Friday by police before he could reach an Afghan minister's home in western Afghanistan, but a second bomber detonated his...
Mallika Chopra | Posted 05.17.2009 | World
To give a more tangible visualization of that number, that's about four full jumbo jet planes' worth of passengers suddenly committing suicide.
Lise Van Susteren | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green
Lethal global overheating - strike the innocuous sounding "global warming" - is not something that may happen in the next century or even mid-century - it is happening now.
RIA Novosti | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
A soldier in Chechnya killed his platoon commander and two other soldiers before turning his weapon on himself, a police source told RIA Novosti on Mo...
Aaron Glantz | Posted 04.23.2009 | Entertainment
It's great to see reality TV taking in some of the reality of the real, "real world" -- and especially bringing to true costs of the war in Iraq to an audience that might not be listening to NPR.
Aaron Glantz | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
Apart from Iraq and Afghanistan, there is another battle is brewing on the homefront. In January alone, 24 soldiers were believed to have committed suicide.
Peter Dreier | Posted 04.10.2009 | Living
Every day, week, and month that the current recession continues, and even deepens, more people die, get seriously injured physically, and suffer emotional hardships that can scar them for life.
Kayla Williams | Posted 04.06.2009 | Living
I went into the psychiatrist's office and tried to explain my fears -- that I would never get better, never readjust, never make it in the civilian world.
Dawn Teo | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business
PHOENIX--As reported by a local ABC affiliate earlier today, an embittered homeowner shot himself in the head Tuesday on the outskirts of town as SWAT...
Amanda Guinzburg | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living
Daltonians: keep your beacons burning. Gather your courage and lean on each other. Go on until you can again go forth. Do it in his name.
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
It's reassuring to know that in these tough fiscal times, Congress is not only listening to Wall Street CEOs, but that they are also listening to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.
Nick Turse | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business
Across the United States, people have been reacting to the dire economic circumstances with extreme acts, including bank robberies, murder, and suicide.
Diane Dimond | Posted 02.18.2009 | Living
I say the city of Albuquerque owes the Parkins family a second opinion. Dr. Baden, who took this case for free, may conclude it was suicide. But I doubt it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business