Many big wildfires are started by arsonists, but that's nothing new. The reason fires get so big nowadays is global heating.

Scientists call on Biden to expand US capacity to make RNA vaccines to 8 billion doses per year.

That's enough to vaccinate half the world each year. Of course, other countries should make vaccine factories too.

*"This Was Avoidable," Climate Activists Say About Apocalyptic UN Climate Report.*

Afghan women are fleeing in terror of the Taliban's violence, which includes rape and worse. But they have nowhere to go.

You don't hurt the Taliban by jumping off a roof. If instead you run out and shoot them until they kill you, you might do them damage, and you'll have a faster death. Taliban might be dissuaded from forcing women into "marriage" if the women stabbed them in the night.

If the Afghans who don't want Taliban rule had been motivated to die fighting, they could have won the war. The sad fact is that they were not generally so motivated.

The enormous "Bootleg" fire did little harm to one area of forest that has been managed by prescribed burns.