A vast crack in the Earth has opened near the Ponticelli Hospital in Naples following a loud noise that was initially thought to have been an explosion. The facility’s Covid patient center was evacuated immediately. There are as yet no reports of injuries or deaths relating to the incident, though firefighters have swarmed the scene and investigations into the cause are already underway. Canine... 

A new report from the City of Toronto in Canada claims that, because criminalization of unregulated drugs “does not effectively deter youth substance use,” all of them should be decriminalized for any age. Modeling its proposal after Portugal’s decriminalization framework, Toronto is asking the federal government to grant a Health Canada exemption for all unregulated drugs, including for children. “The...