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A catastrophic fire in northern California continued spreading on Friday. It already engulfed one town as it burned into the record books. Amna Nawaz reports.

Friday’s jobs report indicates the U.S. economy is making a strong comeback. Wages are up and the unemployment rate is down — at its lowest level since the pandemic began last year. But concerns remain over the highly contagious delta

Writing our way out of the place we’re in is tricky. The words come easily enough, each measured for its emotional weight in the stream of issues we face. It’s possible this paragraph will disappear as I find my ground.

The Biden administration has announced that federal student loan payments will remain suspended through January 2022, extending a pause that was scheduled to expire next month.

The Biden administration has announced that federal student loan payments will remain suspended through January 2022, extending a pause that was scheduled to expire next month.

The rights of Hungary’s LGBTQ people are increasingly under threat. Last month, a law came into force that restricts the depiction of homosexuality and sex reassignment to children in schools. The law has drawn intense opposition from other countries in

Besieged on a ‘Taliban-made island,’ Kandahar’s residents see no way out as militants advance ever closer  CNN Afghan Taliban kill head of government media department  New York Post Taliban Capture Zaranj, an Afghanistan Provincial Capital, in a Symbolic Victory  The New York Times

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including what the results of two Ohio special congressional elections say about Republicans and Democrats, accusations against New York

Over the past three decades, veterans who served in Southwest Asia that later suffered from chronic asthma, rhinitis and sinusitis, among other conditions, have had to prove that their illnesses were caused by their military service in order to receive

“Operation Lone Star,” as it’s called, relies on a force of state troopers, National Guard and reinforcements from other red states. The mission is to curtail the migrants surging into the Rio Grande. (Image credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)