An Afghan woman speaks to a soldier after the attack. Photo: SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images
A suicide bomber struck a group of people who had been celebrating the Persian new year near a Shiite shrine in Kabul, Afghanistan. ISIS has claimed responsibility.
The bigger picture: The past few months have been particularly bloody in the Afghan capital, with the Taliban also carrying out attacks. The local ISIS affiliate has targeted Shiites in the past, per the NY Times.
Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
Postponed vacations, holidays in isolation and back-to-back virtual meetings are taking a toll on millions of American workers.
Why it matters: As we head into the fall, workers are feeling the burnout. Such a collective fraying of mental health at work could dampen productivity and hinder economic growth across the country.
Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
Photo: David Hume Kennerly/GettyImages
Former special counsel Robert Mueller in a statement on Tuesday defended his team's handling of the Russia investigation after Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor in his office, wrote in a new book that investigators should have done more to hold President Trump accountable.
Driving the news: In the tell-all book, “Where Law Ends,” released on Tuesday, Weissman addresses what he calls the special prosecutor office's failures in its investigation.