Straight To It: COVID, the Taliban, and the debt ceiling…oh my!

Gwen’s picks for Tuesday, September 28 include:

• Pfizer announces they’ve submitted research data to the FDA, as the company works to get its COVID vaccine approved for kids aged five to 11.
• Pentagon officials testified in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
• Under Taliban rule, women are no longer allowed to work or study at Afghanistan’s Kabul University.
• Tick, tick, tick…the clock is ticking to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a federal government shutdown.