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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Thousands of Afghans rushed onto the tarmac of Kabul's international airport Monday, so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto an American military jet as it took off and plunged to death in chaos that killed at least seven people, U.S. officials said. The crowds of people rushing the airport came as the Taliban enforced their rule over the wider capital after a lightning advance across the country that took just over a week to dethrone the country's Western-backed government. While there were no major reports of abuses, many stayed home...

"Pawn Stars" star Rick Harrison is single after divorcing his third wife, Deanna Burditt, back in 2020. A rep for the reality TV star confirmed to Fox News on Monday that the couple has been long separated. "I can confirm Rick is divorced and has been so since last summer," the rep said.

A professor of medicine at Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston denounced the push for forced or mandatory vaccinations on Newsmax on Friday, saying it inevitably results in mistrust and skepticism. "The second thing is that people who have had COVID, they have excellent immunity from having recovered from COVID, so they don't need the vaccines.

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is slated to address the nation from the White House Monday afternoon after the Taliban seized the presidential palace in the war-weary Afghan capital of Kabul, a dramatic development that marks the apparent end to a 20-year American era in the country.

VIDEODon't worry. Joe Biden has it all under control. How do we know? Because he said so.

I just attempted my daily call to RINO/Assistant Democrat Jake Corman to strongly demand for subpoenas to be issued to Philadelphia, Tioga and York Counties in Pennsylvania for a full forensic audit of the stolen 2020 election.After the phone ringing about ten times, the answering machine picked up. "Senator Corman is not available ... blah, blah, blah. The voice mail was full.For weeks now Corman has been hiding. He is AWOL. This Eff'n RINO needs to be removed from office. Corman is just as bad as the AWOL and illegally elected resident, Joe Biden. Corman is complicit in election fraud.Stolen...

CNN reporter outside Kabul embassy: “They’re just chanting ‘Death to America’ but they seem friendly at the same time.”

It was quite perplexing for social media users as they wondered why the clocks for London and Moscow, which are two hours apart, were showing a three-hour gap in a White House photo of President Joe Biden meeting with the vice president and the national security team about the ongoing situation in Afghanistan.

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CAMP DAVID—Amid increased calls to address the nation as Afghanistan falls to the Taliban, the Biden Administration has confirmed he will give an emergency press conference to announce which ice cream flavor he plans to eat today. "Amid rising tensions throughout the country and in the middle east, our beloved leader is giving the American people exactly what they need right now," said CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins. "We're all dying to know—will it be chocolate chip? Maybe chocolate-chocolate chip? I believe I speak for the entire country when I say the suspense is totally killing me!" Exploiting a tragic scenario...

American Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a CNN interview on Sunday that the administration of President Joe Biden “can work with and recognize” a Taliban government in Afghanistan that respects women and “doesn’t harbor terrorists.” The Taliban, the jihadist organization that ruled Afghanistan prior to the U.S. invasion of that country in 2001, completed its takeover of the country on Sunday, surrounding Kabul and negotiating the departure of the previous Afghan government. Ex-President Ashraf Ghani reportedly fled Sunday after delivering a bizarre televised speech in which he claimed to be working to regroup the Afghan military to fight...

A little less than a year ago, a significant number of independent and Republican voters decided to trade bad tweets for bad policy. Today, your Twitter feed is void of President Trump's tweets. But the price was high. Gone are the good policies that drove the Trump economy and made the world a safer place. In their place are policies antithetical to prosperity, freedom and security. You traded energy efficiency for dependency on the Middle East. Whereas a year ago you enjoyed inexpensive gas, high paying energy jobs, and fewer incentives to entangle ourselves in Middle Eastern politics, today President...

The Biden administration on Monday plans to unveil a major permanent increase to the food stamp benefits that help 42 million Americans buy groceries — a record bump up for one of the country’s largest safety net programs. The average monthly benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will be roughly 27 percent higher than they were before the pandemic, starting Oct. 1, according to an administration official.

<p>The United States has suspended operations at Karzai International Airport in order to clear the airfield of Afghans attempting to flee from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.</p><p>The U.S. took control of airport operations over the weekend after Taliban militants took over Kabul and toppled the Afghan government. The airport has become the center for embassy operations as well after U.S. officials and personnel abandoned the U.S. embassy on Sunday.</p>

Arianespace will launch a new Earth observation satellite for Airbus Monday night (Aug. 16), along with four other tiny satellites and you can watch the liftoff live online. An Arianespace Vega rocket, designated VV19, will launch the Pléiades Neo 4 satellites and a quartet of cubesats from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana in South America at 9:47 p.m. EDT (0147 Aug. 17 GMT). You can watch the launch live on this page on Space.com, courtesy of Arianespace, or directly via the company's YouTube. The webcast should begin about 20 minutes before liftoff. The rocket will carry Pléiades...

An officer with the U.S. Navy is warning of a full-blown “national security threat” if the military moves ahead with its planned universal COVID-19 vaccination mandate, in a paper obtained exclusively by Revolver News. In a memorandum released on Monday, Biden Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced his intention to require a COVID-19 vaccination for all service members by mid-September, or immediately should any COVID vaccines clear FDA approval (the vaccines are currently only authorized for emergency use). Servicemen who refuse to submit to the vaccine will potentially face court martials, prison time, and even less-than-honorable discharge from the service....

I saw this Russian production on the recommended list free from Amazon Prime members. I noticed some of the gorgeous snapshots so I gave the movie a try. The movie, I found out based on the works of Noble Prize winner in Literature Ivan Bunin, is a story of what the Bolshevik Revolution destroyed. The film centers on a nameless Captain who is in a POW camp left behind in the Crimea after General Wrangel’s White Army left Russia for good defeated by the Red Army in 1920. He is a broken man shocked by what has befallen Russia. These...

Former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden in a statement on Monday morning over the situation in Afghanistan, the third such statement over the last few days. “First Joe Biden surrendered to COVID and it has come roaring back,” Trump said in reference to skyrocketing cases due to the Delta variant of COVID-19. “Then he surrendered to the Taliban, who has quickly overtaken Afghanistan and destroyed confidence in American power and influence.” “The outcome in Afghanistan, including the withdrawal, would have been totally different if the Trump Administration had been in charge,” Trump continued. “Who or what will Joe...

SINGAPORE — The 16-year-old teenager who suffered a heart attack six days after receiving his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine will be eligible for a one-time financial assistance of $225,000. This will be provided under Singapore's Vaccine Injury Financial Assistance Programme (VIFAP), said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Monday (16 August) in a press statement. It added that medical investigations have found that the youth had developed acute severe myocarditis which led to the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Based on ongoing pharmacovigilance monitoring by the Health Sciences Authority (HSA), while there is a small increased risk of myocarditis...

The University of South Carolina reversed its mask mandate after the state attorney general sent a letter to the school stating that their policy was against the law. A state senator wrote a letter to the attorney general that alleged his actions were politically motivated. On August 2, Alan Wilson, the SC Attorney General, tweeted a letter sent to USC President Harris Pastides. The letter interpreted a legislative proviso, or provision, which prohibits discriminatory mask mandates on South Carolina university and college campuses. “The Legislature possesses the ultimate authority over health policy and has prohibited mandatory vaccinations and masking at...