World News Desk

• Poor Countries’ Debt Rose 12 Percent to Record $860 Billion in 2020

• More Than 120,000 U.S. Kids Had Caregivers Die During Pandemic

• With Only Days of Coal Stocks Left, India Faces Power Crisis

• Taliban Official: At Least 100 Dead, Wounded in Afghan Blast

• Researchers: Rise in Single People Who Earn Less

• Quest for More Leverage Drives Iran’s Nuclear Stalling Tactic, Analysts Say

• California Spill Came 52 Years after Historic Oil Disaster

• What Kilauea’s History Tells Us About Its Future

• What’s in the Bipartisan U.S. $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill?

• Military Suicides Rise 15 Percent as Senior Leaders Call for Action

• U.S. Says Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 22 Other Species Extinct

• Illegal Marijuana Farms Take West’s Scarce Water

• Americans Less Positive About Civil Liberties: AP-NORC Poll

• Nigeria Faces One of Its Worst Cholera Outbreaks in Years

• North Korea Tests First ‘Strategic’ Cruise Missile with Possible Nuclear Capability

• China Chases ‘Rejuvenation’ with Control of Tycoons, Society

• Taliban Form Afghan Government of Old Guard Members

• 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