World News Desk

• Economic Oddity: Record Job Openings and Many Unemployed

• U.S. Probing Nearly 350 Reports of Oil Spills in Wake of Hurricane Ida

• Birds of Prey Face Global Decline from Habitat Loss, Poisons

• Japan’s Prime Minister Suga Steps Down, Sets Stage for New Leader

• U.S. Traffic Deaths Up During Pandemic Even Though Mileage Down

• Explainer: How Dangerous is Afghanistan’s Islamic State?

• Treasury: Pandemic Accelerates Depletion of U.S. Social Security Trust Funds

• Explainer: Why and How China Is Drastically Limiting Online Gaming for Those Under 18

• President Biden Says Afghanistan Exit Marks the End of U.S. Nation-building

• Ida’s Aftermath: No Power, No Flights, Scant Drinking Water

• Diabetes Surges among American Youth, Study Shows

• ‘They Are Hungry’: Haiti Quake Survivors Fear for Children’s Future

• Taliban Takeover Prompts Fears of a Resurgent al-Qaida

• Dead, Many Missing after 17 Inches of Rain in Tennessee

• Brazil City District Slipping into Sea After River Diverted

• Drought-weakened Bee Colonies Shrink U.S. Honey Crop, Threaten Almonds

• Costs of the Afghanistan War, in Lives and Dollars

• Landlords Look for an Exit amid Federal Eviction Moratorium

• Why Are Earthquakes So Devastating in Haiti?

• Hyperinflation, U.S. Dollars Pricing Out Venezuelan Consumers