President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 10, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) President Biden committed to keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan until all American civilians are evacuated in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos released on Wednesday. Up to 15,000 Americans are currently
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The scenes coming out of Afghanistan right now are nothing short of brutal. Amid the much-belated withdrawal of US troops, the Taliban has once again seized control of much of the nation, as the alternative government the US spent decades trying to prop up quickly collapsed.  From the renewed subjugation of women and desperate attempts
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Denise King, a staff member at Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, a nursing home facility, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine from Walgreens Pharmacist Annette Marshall, in Brooklyn, New York, December 22, 2020. Yuki Iwamura | Reuters U.S. officials plan to withhold federal funding from nursing homes that don’t fully vaccinate their
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A Los Angeles Police Department officer is on leave after being caught on video punching a handcuffed suspect who was being lifted into a waiting ambulance after a botched carjacking. What are the details? A Monday report from KTTV-TV stated that the unnamed officer has been “relieved of his police powers” after the incident, which
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Kamala Harri will travel to East Asia on Friday to visit Singapore and Vietnam, of all places. And she continues to shy away from the collapse of Afghanistan. What complete cluelessness. FOX News reported: The timing probably couldn’t be worse for the Biden administration. On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to embark on
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A U.S. Marine assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit escorts Department of State personnel to be processed for evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2021. (US Navy/Central Command Public Affairs/Sergeant Isaiah Campbell/Handout via Reuters) Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the U.S. will continue to evacuate all the Americans
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Multiple watchdog groups say Rep. Ilhan Omar may have violated federal law for failing to mention any income received from her critically-acclaimed 2020 memoir in her latest financial disclosure. Omar’s memoir launched in May 2020 to rave reviews by the press and prominent Democratic lawmakers such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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In this article TGT Target CEO Brian Cornell is confident the big-box retailer will have plenty of merchandise this holiday season, despite industry-wide supply chain complications that have sparked worries that items could quickly sell out of stock. Target’s inventories were up $2.5 billion in its latest quarter compared with a year earlier, Cornell said
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The collapse of Afghanistan, record inflation, high gas prices, and the border crisis appear to have already taken their toll on Joe Biden’s popularity, as multiple polls are now showing that approval for Biden is starting to tank. At least in some polls. The latest survey from Rasmussen Reports shows Biden polling underwater, with 45
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Sen. John Kennedy issued a video statement on Tuesday in which he blasted “stunning incompetence” as the U.S. seeks to pull out from Afghanistan. “President Biden chose to withdraw from Afghanistan, but there’s no reason it had to be so chaotic,” he said. The Republican lawmaker from Louisiana described it as the “biggest terrorist victory
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The fact-check says the article had “false information” and that “independent fact-checkers say the information has no basis in fact.” The article mockingly accused CNN of “praising” the Taliban for wearing masks during its Afghanistan takeover. Ron Coleman, a legal commentator on First Amendment issues, applauded the Bee for being fact-checked once again. “You’ve done
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Nation-building abroad was a fool’s errand, but the fall of Kabul may have troubling implications closer to home. Taliban fighters stand guard in a vehicle along the roadside in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan’s 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city’s airport trying to flee the
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For six months, an overwhelmed southern border joined COVID-19 as the dominant headline. Now the two stories seem to have merged.  Almost one-fifth of illegal border crossers in federal custody tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to a Department of Homeland Security document leaked to NBC News.  Texas cities such as Laredo
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