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The fight over the debt ceiling could sink the economy. This is how we got here

Once upon a time, raising the nation's borrowing limit was considered a fairly routine vote. Today, Biden and the GOP are on a partisan collision course that risks landing the U.S. in default.

Nimia Uropari Velásquez, age 28, is a native of Peru's Manati indigenous community. She took a four-hour boat ride to the port town of Indiana to take care of banking business — and possibly get a vaccine. In the end she passed on the shot.

Vaccinators in Peru's Amazon are challenged by religion, rivers and a special tea

Peruvian health officials face many obstacles as they try to get everyone vaccinated, including those who live in remote and rural areas.

Residents stand amid damaged homes following Typhoon Rai in Talisay, Cebu province, central Philippines on Saturday. The strong typhoon engulfed villages in floods that trapped residents on roofs, toppled trees and knocked out power in southern and central island provinces, where more than 300,000 villagers had fled to safety before the onslaught, officials said.

Desperation grows in the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Rai

Rai is one of the most powerful storms to hit the southern Philippines on record. It's displaced more than 481,000 people and killed more than 150.

In his 20s, with the hopes of becoming a foreign correspondent, Kevin Dawes - now 39, at the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael, Calif. - traveled to Libya and then Syria where he was arrested, imprisoned and tortured.

An American was locked up in Syria. A pact with a British inmate may have saved him

Kevin Dawes describes how a fellow prisoner in Syria kept a promise that called attention to Dawes' detention. Now, five years after his release, Dawes is suing the Syrian regime.

Haitian migrant Djeeff Orelien lines up on the side of a highway for buses provided by the INM, the National Migration Institute, Mexico's immigration agency.

On Mexico's southern border, the latest migration surge is Haitian

Thousands of Haitian migrants who had lived in South America for years are crossing into Mexico, overwhelming that country's capacity to process them. Many say their ultimate destination is the U.S.

<strong>BEFORE</strong> (left): Overview of Mayfield Consumer Products Candle Factory and nearby buildings before the tornado on Jan. 28, 2017. <strong>AFTER</strong> (right) Overview of the damage to the Mayfield Consumer Products Candle Factory and nearby buildings after the tornado on Dec. 11, 2021.

Photos: Before and after satellite images reveal the extent of tornadoes' destruction

The imagery shows the scale of the destruction in parts of Kentucky, Arkansas and Illinois.

A fissure is seen next to a house covered with ash on the Canary island of La Palma on Dec. 1. Authorities on the Spanish island are declaring a volcanic eruption that has caused widespread damage but no casualties officially finished.

La Palma's volcanic eruption is officially over, but its devastating toll lingers

Authorities on the Canary Islands declared an eruption that started in September officially finished following 10 days of no lava flows, seismic activity or significant sulfur dioxide emissions.

Teafua Tanu is an islet of Tokelau used by residents of Fakaofo atoll as a Catholic cemetery. Over the past two decades, the territory of Tokelau has proved extremely vulnerable to climate change and rising sea levels owing, partly, to its being a small land mass surrounded by ocean, and its location in a region prone to natural disasters.

Their lands are oceans apart but are linked by rising, warming seas of climate change

Photographer Vlad Sokhin's latest work, Warm Waters, is an exploration of climate change traveling across 18 countries and off-the-map territories seen by seldom few.

Flood survivors, former sex slaves, fantastic masks: Top global photo stories of 2021

The power of photos can be seen in our most popular picture essays of the year, with compelling images from South Sudan, the Philippines, Mexico (check out those artistic face coverings) and more.

A man cries over his mother's grave in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept. 29, 2020. Iris Gonçalves Alves died at age 54 the previous day from COVID-19, according to the information on her burial record. During the worst times of the pandemic in Manaus, only three relatives could attend a burial in its cemeteries.

What happens when isolation goes beyond a pandemic

Photographer Raphael Alves documented how socioeconomic issues worsen the COVID-19 pandemic in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.

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