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If you own your own home, it’s no surprise that your homeowner’s insurance premium has soared. Opening that bill, you might find a 25% increase or more — even though you’ve had no claims. If your premium is included in your monthly mortgage payment, you’ll get notice of a jump in your monthly payment. Insurance companies have indeed been hit with more catastrophic losses in recent years. Some

When Dr. Waleed Sayedahmad traveled to Gaza to provide medical care, he expected to encounter brutal injuries, perhaps similar to those he saw while volunteering in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. But he said the reality was worse than he ever imagined. People with intestines hanging outside of their bodies. Children who lost their noses, ears and eyes after explosions. Diabetics who lost

Chilean authorities arrested 22-year-old volunteer firefighter Francisco Mondaca and former forestry official Franco Pinto over the weekend after prosecutors charged the men with causing massive fires in February that left 137 dead and over 16,000 homeless in central Chile. Chile declared a state of emergency in February after the appearance of over 100 fires in the central Valparaíso region

Compasses at the bottom of the ocean wobbled as a massive solar storm hit Earth last week, giving the instruments two miles under the sea a jolt of magnetic shock and awe. The compasses are managed by Ocean Networks Canada, a national ocean observatory hosted by the University of Victoria. According to Alex Slonimer, a scientific data specialist at the observatory, a daily check in late March—