Barely six months into the job, House Speaker Mike Johnson is at risk of the same conservative revolt that took down his predecessor.

The pandemic sent global hunger soaring, but now the war in Ukraine is making the problem far worse.

Leaders of the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations — grant makers that have committed billions of dollars to fight the coronavirus — are warning that without larger government and philanthropic investments in the manufacture and delivery of vaccines to people in poor nations, the pandemic could set back global progress on education, public health, and gender equality for years.