From Jenna Orkin

Hospitalized kids with COVID-19 just hit record high: US Dept. of Health

Fully vaccinated Southwest Airlines flight attendant dies of COVID-19

Haiti’s Earthquakes Require a Haitian Solution

(archive) How Bush Was Offered Bin Laden and Blew It 

How the US military got rich from Afghanistan

Children born during pandemic have lower IQs, US study finds

The Taliban hunted and threatened city employees who didn't show up to work in one of the first places they seized, in a sign of what could happen to the rest of the country

1,297 people are dead and 5,700 more are injured after a powerful earthquake hit Haiti

United and other major airlines are rerouting flights to avoid Afghan airspace

Video shows people latching onto a moving US Air Force plane at Kabul airport as they desperately try to flee Afghanistan

Facebook and Google are laying another giant undersea internet cable, this time stretching 7,500 miles between 6 Asian countries