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Protestors hold an anti-vaccine rally at Central Park

Vaccine, mask opponents are fueling the delta variant’s death toll. Will incentives help?

FILE PHOTO: A Capitol Police vehicle parks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

News Wrap: Congress approves $2 billion in emergency spending for Capitol security

In our news wrap Thursday, the U.S. Congress gave final approval today to $2 billion in emergency spending for Capitol security. The Biden administration will allow a nationwide ban on evictions imposed during the pandemic to expire Saturday. The U.S.

By PBS NewsHour

Anti-Olympic protesters gather outside Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's office

Japan ignored months of protests to host the Olympics. The opposition is still growing

Tokyo on Thursday registered its highest number yet of COVID-19 cases. Amid American triumphs in the gym and the pool, the reigning world champion pole vaulter Sam Kendricks was forced to leave after testing positive. The Japanese public is split…

By Phoebe Amoroso

Gymnastics - Artistic - Women's Individual All-Around - Medal Ceremony

What Suni Lee’s gymnastics gold win means to Hmong Americans

American gymnast Sunisa Lee's gold medal in gymnastics Thursday makes her the first Hmong American to participate and win in the Olympics. Lee said she trains daily for first-generation Americans and wanted to win for Hmong Americans. John Yang reports…

Ash blankets the ground around burnt trees after wildfires burned large swathes of Lebanon's pine forests in Qobayat

Wildfire rages for 2nd day in Lebanon, spreads to Syria

Lebanon's civil defense says it deployed 25 firetrucks, supported by four air force helicopters and military units, to put out the blaze. But the fires continued to rage, spreading east.

By Hussein Mallah, Fadi Tawil, Associated Press

Guatemalans protest president, attorney general

By Sonia Pérez D., Associated Press

Pressure has been building since Attorney General Consuelo Porras fired anti-corruption special prosecutor Juan Francisco Sandoval.

Israel to offer 3rd COVID booster shot to older citizens

By Ilan Ben Zion, Associated Press

Thursday's announcement by Naftali Bennett makes Israel the first country to offer a third dose of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine to its citizens on a wide scale.

Russian lab module docks with space station after 8-day trip

By Associated Press

The 22-ton Nauka module, also called the Multipurpose Laboratory Module, docked with the orbiting outpost in an automatic mode after a long journey and a series of maneuvers.

Olympians come forward to talk mental health, after Simone Biles speaks out

By Jenna Fryer, Associated Press

Olympians in many sports have spent the past two days coming forward to recount their own battles while offering support to Simone Biles.

Floods make thousands homeless in Bangladesh Rohingya camps

By Julhas Alam, Associated Press

Days of heavy rainfall have pounded Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, destroying dwellings and sending thousands of people to live with extended families or in communal shelters.