Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are rising as the BA.5 subvariant of omicron takes root. | Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images The omicron subvariant
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What is Steve Bannon planning in his war room?
Steve Bannon, adviser to former President Donald Trump, speaks to the media outside a Washington, DC, courthouse on June 15, 2022. | Win McNamee/Getty Images
How can Sri Lanka move forward?
Protesters celebrated outside the Presidential Secretariat in Columbo on July 15, 2022. | Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images Sri Lanka’s president is out. Now comes
The case of the missing fireflies
Fireflies at Firefly Sanctuary in Tlaxcala, Mexico. | Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty Images Today, Explained to Kids explores why whole species are losing their habitats and
Sri Lanka’s protests are just the beginning of global instability
Protesters in Sri Lanka gather at the Presidential Secretariat, the president’s offices, on July 14, 2022. | Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images Why rising costs
Democrats’ latest attempt at resurrecting Build Back Better, explained
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) walks to a meeting in 2021, in Washington, DC. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Lawmakers are scrambling to get a deal done
Why BA.5 is cause for concern, but not alarm. Yet.
A mix of masked and unmasked people wait in line in New York’s Times Square on June 6. The BA.5 subvariant of SARS-CoV-2 is believed
This Michigan Democrat wants her party to “call bullshit, bullshit”
Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, center, is shown at the state Capitol before the State of the State address on January 29, 2020, in Lansing,
Netflix’s Persuasion is an absolute disaster
(L to R) Hardy Yusuf as Charles Musgrove, Jake Siame as James Musgrove, and Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot in Persuasion. | Nick Wall/Netflix The
Sri Lanka’s organic farming disaster, explained
Workers hand-pick tea leaves Ramboda, Sri Lanka. | Buddhika Weerasinghe/Bloomberg via Getty Images A shift to better farming practices is possible — but Sri Lanka’s