From Jenna Orkin

COVID-19 outbreak shuts down entire police department in Illinois

History's Largest Mining Operation About to Begin

Many Hospitals With No Beds Left Are Forced To Send COVID Patients To Cities Far Away

Stanley Aronowitz, Who Taught Us Teaching Must Be Political, Has Passed

'They were very sick': Viral photo of people on floor at Florida clinic shows troubled scene

Israel, Once the Model for Beating Covid, Faces New Surge of Infections

Taliban in power may find themselves fighting Islamist insurgents

A Hell of Our Own Making, Reflections on the Road to Kabul By Edward Snowden

State Department officials warned in July that Afghan government could collapse soon after August 31 US troop withdrawal: WSJ

Afghans eligible to be evacuated were prevented from entering Kabul airport because some Taliban fighters couldn't read their documents, report says

Doctors in North Texas considered taking COVID-19 patients’ vaccination status into account when determining who gets ICU beds

A North Texas Critical Care Guidelines Task Force spokesperson has since rowed back on the memo on how to triage patients.

The summit of Greenland got rain, rather than snow, for the first time on record