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As the Taliban take over Afghanistan, women bureaucrats are risking their lives and freedom to not only save their country and people — but to maintain the rights of women and girls.

Astroworld Festival calls to mind other rare but traumatic incidents at concerts and festivals throughout the last half-century. Here's a timeline of those tragedies.

Harris County, which includes Houston, has more than 4.7 million people. Many of the voting rights innovations installed last year are at risk of being eliminated by the Republican-led legislature.

The global investigation sheds new light on how the world's wealthy use a network of lawyers and financial institutions to obscure their finances from authorities, their creditors and the public.

20 years ago, Philadelphia high schooler Amir Sidiqi befriended his English teacher, Kevin Haney. That friendship came in handy when Sidiqi and his family were recently stranded in Afghanistan.

A growing number of U.S. intelligence officers and diplomats in Vienna have reported symptoms in recent months consistent with "Havana syndrome," which include dizziness, migraines and memory loss.

California spends more on inmates’ health than any other state, but is still seeing raging COVID-19 outbreaks in its prison system. Plus, the eviction moratorium in the city of San Diego has been extended until the end of September. Also, the city has finalized the sale of the Mission Valley stadium site to San Diego State University. And, the conversation about defunding school police departments continues. Finally, the pandemic has left the asylum process at a standstill, and many asylum seekers are stuck in limbo at the border.

A gunman in southwest England killed five people, including a 3-year-old girl, before turning his weapon on himself, police say.

The Jemaine Clement-Taika Waititi 2014 film "What We Do in the Shadows" almost didn't get released in the U.S. but now the hit FX Networks series is having its season finale and getting renewed for another.

This is the September 2021 archive of breaking news about the coronavirus pandemic.