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"The Biden Administration's objective is always optics." "Now...they're trying to keep the optics that this is not a combat mission. It's the optics that are going to put people in further danger. "

The White House confirmed that the U.S military used three military helicopters to rescue 169 Americans outside Kabul Airport who were trapped at a nearby hotel. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby confirmed that on Thursday three U.S. CH-47 Chinook helicopters were dispatched to rescue Americans at the nearby Baron Hotel, near Hamid Karzai International Airport. The group of Americans were initially going to walk through the gate of the hotel but a large crowd gathered in front of the hotel and it wasn't deemed safe, defenseone.com reported. Further details on the nature of the crowd - and whether it was comprised...

Grand Rapids, Michigan — General Motors is recalling all Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles sold worldwide to fix a battery problem that could cause fires, expanding a previous recall. The company last month told owners of 2017-2019 model year vehicles to park outdoors and not charge them overnight after two vehicles repaired in the earlier recall caught fire. The recall and others raise questions about lithium ion batteries, which now are used in nearly all electric vehicles. Ford, BMW and Hyundai all have recalled batteries recently. President Joe Biden will need electric vehicles to reach a goal of cutting greenhouse gas...

More than 250 Australian residents were apprehended by police Saturday amid the country's anti-lockdown protests. People across several Australian cities defied the coronavirus stay at home orders and were arrested following altercations with police officers. At least cops endured injuries from the protests and Melbourne saw the most violent demonstrations, according to the Associated Press. More than 4,000 people protested the COVID measures in Melbourne while police released pepper spray into the crowds to stop demonstrators from crossing police lines. Police said in a statement that they had no choice but to unleash the pepper spray as altercations hospitalized six...

President Joe Biden will not spend the weekend at his home in Delaware after the situation in Afghanistan continues to devolve with Americans warned not to travel to Kabul airport. -snip- The White House did not provide a reason as to why the trip was cancelled nor did it indicate whether the president planned to travel on Sunday. -snip- 'Because of potential security threats outside the gates at the Kabul airport, we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a U.S. government representative...

“Maybe it is true that there was no grand conspiracy to send armed militias to disrupt the election certification. But that just means Donald Trump is even more responsible for everything that happened that day—and since,” says Mehdi Hasan.

Forest Service News Release Dixie Fire Update for Saturday, August 21, 2021 714,219 Acres 36% Containment 5,670 Total Personnel

The greatest tribute band in the world just shot it out of the park again with a cover of the Earth, Wind and Fire classic "After the Love has Gone."

The honeymoon’s over. President Biden’s job approval has flipped for the first time in his presidency amid the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, with more Americans now disapproving of his performance in office than supporting it, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average. The measure, which combines the results of recent national surveys, pegged Biden at 48.6 percent disapproval — nearly a full percentage point greater than the 47.8 percent of Americans who said they still approve of his performance. The negative polling average included this week’s Reuters/Ipsos survey, which saw Biden’s approval rating plunge by 7 points in the wake...

Every morning this week at 8:45, a newly established “war room” has convened at the White House, with about 20 staffers logging onto a Zoom call to coordinate messaging and deployment of critical resources. The operation has nothing to do with the crisis in Afghanistan — it’s about keeping President Biden’s big infrastructure push on track. Even amid the fall of Kabul to the Taliban and the frantic, last-minute military operation to rescue thousands of Americans and vulnerable Afghans, the White House has maintained its overarching focus on the domestic matters it has prioritized for the last eight months. “The...

More than half of the NYPD isn’t vaccinated for COVID-19, so the department has issued an ultimatum: vax up, or mask up.In a statement Wednesday, the NYPD said cops who want to remove their masks at work must provide proof they’ve gotten the COVID inoculation to the department’s medical division — citing an executive order by Mayor de Blasio requiring contractors working for the city to do so.“Members who do not have official proof of COVID-19 vaccination on file with the Medical Division must wear a face covering at all times while working, whether indoors or outside, including while driving...

A report from a British newspaper on Friday said that the Biden administration did not include an impassioned plea from French President Emmanuel Macron for the U.S. to share in the “moral responsibility” that the nations have to protect Afghan nationals that are in danger. The two presidents spoke on Thursday regarding the ongoing situation in Afghanistan. The Guardian reported: The French government’s readout of the conversation was released on Friday, a day after the call took place, and indicates that Macron emphasized ensuring the safe evacuation of Afghan citizens who assisted American and European troops over the past 20...

KALAMAZOO, MI — An X-Train party in Kalamazoo saw police trying to disperse a crowd of people dancing on cars and fighting in the streets. The night of Friday, Aug. 20, and into the early morning Saturday, Kalamazoo Public Safety officers responded to mobile nuisance parties, or X-Trains as they’re colloquially known. These pop-up parties are usually organized over social media at locations around the city, often starting around 2-3 a.m. and lasting until just before sunrise. Friday night’s initial crowd complaint occurred in the 500 block of Ada Street but progressed as the night wore on. The areas around...

Joe Biden defended the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, two decades after NATO forces invaded the country and toppled the Taliban regime following September 11, 2001, as he blamed Donald Trump and the Afghan security services for the anarchy engulfing the country. Speaking from the White House, the US President – who had returned from his ‘vacation’ at Camp David – told the American nation that the Taliban’s astonishing sweep to power and seizure of the capital city Kabul this month had happened ‘more quickly’ than he had anticipated. His address came as Americans woke up to images of terrified Afghans...

Beck urged his audience to “give until it hurts” to fund the evacuation of thousands of mainly women and children from the country, which is now under Taliban control. “Every single penny that you can come up with will go to flying those planes and getting those people out,” Beck said Wednesday. “We need, obviously, an enormous amount of money. These are people that are marked for death for what they believe in.” Encouraging people to donate to the Nazarene Fund he created, the former Fox News host said Christians faced being “crucified” by the Taliban. After 24 hours, nearly...

Hurricane Henry was located around 180 miles east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina late Saturday morning. The storm's maximum sustained winds have increased to near 75 mph, hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 60 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 125 miles. Henri was moving toward the north-northeast near 14 mph, though a faster northward to north-northeastward motion is forecast today, followed by a decrease in forward speed and a turn toward the north-northwest on Sunday. The hurricane is expected to make landfall on Long Island or in southern New England on Sunday. Additional strengthening...

WASHINGTON D.C. (KUSI) – The FBI has found little evidence that the Jan. 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol was coordinated on a large scale, according to reports.A source told Reuters that “Ninety to ninety-five percent of these are one-off cases”, while a small percentage came from “militia groups that were more closely organized”.The official said “there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages.”Reuters reported, “spokespeople for the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington, which is leading the Jan. 6 prosecutions, declined to...

Lara Logan is an investigative reporter who lived in Afghanistan for a year and has great knowledge of how things work there. 54:25 long interview

Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson laid out why he saw President Joe Biden as incapable of leading the United States. He used the fall of the Afghani government to the Taliban as the latest proof of it. Carlson called Biden “senile” and said there were numerous examples of his appointees contradicting him in public, which would not have been tolerated under prior administrations. CARLSON: We have learned a lot in the past five days. Maybe the most important thing we’ve learned is that Joe Biden is not capable of running the country. Joe Biden...

CNN’s Jeff Zeleny said on Friday, "I think there’s no question that President Biden was more in command of this chaos in Afghanistan than we have seen him really for more than a week, publicly. "He said very clearly, any American who wants to come home will be able to come home and then authorized, saying he will use any resources necessary and left the door open to the possibility of staying beyond his self-imposed deadline, and actually left several other spaces open for command decisions on the ground there.” “So perhaps more has been gone on than the military...