Dispatch from Kabul: Life after the Taliban takeover

Kabul’s airport is in chaos as Afghans who helped U.S. forces try to get out. An Al Jazeera journalist describes what life is like in the city now.

An NBC News investigation looks at how international scammers used stolen identities to dupe state unemployment agencies in the U.S. into giving them billions of dollars in COVID benefits.

Black women are nearly four times more likely than white women to die during childbirth. The L.A. Times brings us the story of a Black-owned birthing center in Los Angeles that aims to provide specialized care.

Researchers studying the daddy longlegs sequenced the arachnid’s genome to learn more about its unique body. NPR reports on how they were able to create a “daddy shortlegs.”