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Israel Defense Forces (IDF) increased airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and sealed it off from food, fuel, and other supplies on October 9 in retaliation for a bloody incursion by Hamas militants, as the war’s death toll rose to more than 1,600 on both sides. Hamas also escalated the conflict, pledging to kill captured Israelis if attacks targeted civilians without warnings. Days after the October 7 attack began, Israel was still finding bodies from Hamas’ stunning weekend attack into southern Israeli towns. Rescue workers found 100 bodies in the tiny farming community of Be’eri — around 10% of its...

The graves at the edge of the orphanage tell a story of despair. The rough planks in the cracked earth are painted with the names of children, most of them dead in the 1990s. That was before the HIV drugs arrived. Today, the orphanage in Kenya’s capital is a happier, more hopeful place for children with HIV. But a political fight taking place in the United States is threatening the program that helps to keep them and millions of others around the world alive. The reason for the threat? Abortion. The AIDS epidemic has killed more than 40 million...

The federal government will, for the first time, dictate staffing levels at nursing homes, the Biden administration said on September 1, responding to systemic problems bared by mass COVID-19 deaths. While such regulation has been sought for decades by allies of older adults and those with disabilities, the proposed threshold is far lower than many advocates had hoped. It immediately drew ire from the nursing home industry as well, which said it amounted to a mandate that couldn’t be met. With criticism expected, a promise made with fanfare in President Joe Biden’s 2022 State of the Union speech had...