Mona Chalabi

Feb 15, 2025 | msn.com | Mona Chalabi

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Feb 15, 2025 | theguardian.com | Mona Chalabi

The Los Angeles wildfires last month destroyed thousands of homes, killed dozens of people and left a city reeling. They also raised serious questions about the region’s future – and where Americans choose to build. A rapidly increasing share of US homes are built in areas that are at risk of fire. In 1990, about 13% of new homes were built in places at high risk of fire. By 2020, that number had more than doubled to 31%.

Dec 23, 2024 | theguardian.com | Mona Chalabi

Worldwide, 104 journalists and media workers were killed in 2024 – and more than half of them were in Palestine. Journalists there have faced death more than their colleagues in any other country, according to the . Research by the IFJ, a non-partisan organization representing the rights of media workers, found that 55 journalists were killed in Palestine this year, compared with 49 in the rest of the world.

Nov 7, 2024 | theguardian.com | Mona Chalabi

I woke up on Wednesday morning to an email from someone I barely know, a white woman I met at a party this summer. The email was empty and the subject line simply read: “What a heartbreak”. She was writing to me, someone she spoke to just once for five minutes, about Donald Trump winning the US presidency. This liberal (let’s call her Suzie) and millions of other voters are waking up with a fear that they haven’t felt this intensely in four years.

Oct 21, 2024 | theguardian.com | Mona Chalabi

If you’ve recently seen a ghost, you could be in line for $100,000 – just so long as you caught your supernatural sighting on a Ring camera. With Halloween around the corner, the home surveillance company is offering a hefty sum to anyone who can capture footage of paranormal activity, with a Ghostbusters actor, Finn Wolfhard, helping to choose the winner. But while Ring’s competition might be a PR stunt, ghostly experiences can feel very real, especially for those who are grieving.