AP News, by Ebrahim Noroozi: A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes and killing at least 1,000 people. The disaster posed a new test for Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and…

AP News, by Paolo Santalucia: Water is so low in large stretches of Italy’s largest river that local residents are walking through the middle of the expanse of sand and shipwrecks are resurfacing. Authorities fear that if it doesn’t rain…

AP News, by Julhas Alam and Wasbir Hussain: Army troops were called in to rescue thousands of people stranded by massive floods that have ravaged northeastern India and Bangladesh, leaving millions of homes underwater and severing transport links, authorities said…

Yahoo News, by Jonathan Allen: A study published on Friday estimates that nearly 1.64 million people over the age of 13 in the United States identify themselves as transgender, based on an analysis of newly expanded federal health surveys. The…

Forbes, by Lauren Debter: When 29-year-old Jonnai Jones ran out of Aveeno face wash, she headed to the nearby Walgreens in Irvington, New Jersey, to pick some up. The bottle, like many other products, was locked up, forcing her to…

Newsweek, by Giulia Carbonaro: The risk of a nuclear conflict is the highest it has been since the times of the Cold War, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The “SIPRI Yearbook 2022,” a report published Monday…

VOA News, by Lisa Schlein: The World Food Program reports it has been forced to suspend food assistance for 1.7 million people in South Sudan because of a funding shortfall of $426 million. Conflict, three years of flooding, localized drought,…

Daily Mail, by Stephen M. Lepore: The largest city in the state of Montana faces running out of fresh water within 36 hours after Billings’ only local treatment plant was overwhelmed by the devastating flood waters that have closed Yellowstone…

Reuters, by Tom Polansek: Extreme heat and humidity killed thousands of cattle in Kansas in recent days, the state said, and sizzling temperatures continue to threaten livestock. The deaths add pain to the U.S. cattle industry as producers have reduced…

AP News, by Nasser Karimi: A passenger train traveling through eastern Iran struck an excavator and nearly half its cars derailed before dawn on Wednesday, killing at least 22 people and injuring 87, officials said. The derailment near the desert…

AP News, by Omar Faruk and Cara Anna: No mother should have to lose her child. Owliyo Hassan Salaad has watched four die this year. A drought in the Horn of Africa has taken them, one by one. Now she…

The Washington Times, by Sean Salai: Pro-life pregnancy centers and churches are being firebombed, attacked and vandalized as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on the future of legalized abortion in America. Police in Amherst, New York, are investigating a…