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Amid a massive surge of migrants at the United States-Mexico border, the outgoing Border Patrol chief told his 19,000 agents prior to retiring over the weekend that known or suspected terrorists are coming into America “at a level we have never seen before

The Navy SEAL who says he killed Osama bin Laden in 2011 is calling President Joe Biden a “disaster” and urging Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to resign over the deadly aftermath of the U.S. military pullout in Afghanistan. In a Twitter tirade, Robert O’Neill ripped the decision and predicted a political reckoning. “So, @POTUS is a disaster,” he declared. “This is the worst loss in American history. Our most popular president has vanished. Prove me wrong,” he added. He also trolled Biden on the bin Laden raid, asserting “Joe Biden opposed the raid to kill...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki was forced to cut her planned family vacation short, returning to work Monday as President Joe Biden delivered remarks on Afghanistan. She'll brief reporters Tuesday afternoon at 1:30, alongside National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, as the crisis continues to unfold. Psaki had planned to take this week off, with her automated out-of-office reply saying she would return on August 22, when reporters tried asking her questions about Afghanistan over the weekend. The Washington Post reported that Psaki had returned to the White House Monday to help manage the Afghanistan situation. The Post reported that...

New Zealand has announced a snap lockdown after a man tested positive for Covid, the first case in six months.The case was detected in Auckland, which will be in lockdown for a week, while the rest of the country will be in lockdown for three days. Authorities say they are working on the assumption that the new case was the Delta variant.Just around 20% of its population has been fully vaccinated.Coromandel, a coastal town where the infected person had visited, will be in lockdown for seven days too.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the toughest "level 4" rules were required -...

The governors of Maryland and Virginia said on Monday they are “ready and willing” to accept more refugees from Afghanistan as the Taliban completes its takeover of the nation’s government. Maryland is already poised to receive at least 180 Afghan citizens in the coming weeks under an ongoing federal program that provides Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) to those who helped with U.S. operations in Afghanistan over the past two decades. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said the state is "ready and willing" to receive more refugees.

Milton Friedman used to quip that, in Washington, if a government program is working, Congress says we need to spend more money on it. And if a government program is failing, Congress concludes we are not spending enough money on it. We are seeing that in spades with the unemployment insurance program that has been looted by fraud for nearly 18 months and has become a poster child of everything gone wrong in government (already) under President Joe Biden. CNBC recently investigated the ransacking of the unemployment insurance program and was told by Michele Evermore, a senior policy adviser for...

But Attorney General Merrick Garland might be able to stop him.Garland has the power to rule out another Trump run by citing “section 3 of the 14th amendment, which bars anyone from holding office who ‘engaged in insurrection,’ against the U.S.,” Robert Reich, the former Labor secretary, recently wrote in The Guardian. If Garland takes Reich’s advice, he is sure to set off alarms about the attorney general playing politics. But Garland has the facts on his side. The facts say Trump tried to stage a coup.

Former President Obama's 60th birthday party was declared not to be a super spreader event by the media, even though hundreds of unmasked guests cavorted at his palatial estate on Martha's Vineyard over a three day period. New York Times reporter Annie Karni declared the affair "was low risk because the guests were drawn from a better class of people than the deplorables attending Trump rallies." This totally safe and healthy gathering was contrasted with the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally taking place in South Dakota the same weekend. As Dr. Anthony Fauci explained to NBC's Chuck Todd on Meet the Press,...

After the disastrous events in Afghanistan, we must confront a serious question: Is Joe Biden capable of discharging the duties of his office or has time come to exercise the provisions of the 25th Amendment? https://t.co/l1bFrUdZH9 — Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) August 16, 2021 Sure Senator, then we have President Kamala.

Elander’s Voice on Twitter: "AUSTRALIA- 24,000 children will be vaccinated in a stadium next week. No parents will be allowed access. Er… #COVID19 #CovidVic #NoVaccinePassports https://t.co/TMGUOB2xwz" / Twitter

27-year-old Zarifa Ghafari is the first-ever female mayor of an Afghan city. She has survived three assassination attempts. Now she sits and waits for the Taliban to come kill her. No help awaits Ghafari and her family. ..... Snip..... TIME magazine called Zarifa Ghafari a next generation leader. Now she sits and waits for death.

A federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California seeks to stop the Gavin Newsom recall election from happening as scheduled on Sept. 14. The suit, filed by voters R.J. Beaber and A.W. Clark, alleges that the recall election is unconstitutional because it denies pro-Newsom voters equal protection of the law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. This argument was made by Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, who wrote a New York Times op-ed last week arguing that because Newsom "can receive far more votes than any other candidate but still be removed from...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's Community Development Commission approved in a meeting Tuesday an additional $600 million in tax revenue to go toward redeveloping Cabrini-Green. The Near North TIF has been controversial since it was created in 1997 by former Mayor Richard M. Daley. The proposed extension is likely to renew the debate over TIFs. Proponents have said they are tools to spur economic development in blighted areas. Those against them say they are a "slush fund." Mayor Lori Lightfoot's plan to finish the project now goes to the full City Council for what city officials hope is final approval in...

The estranged daughter-in-law of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has been charged in connection with covering up the grisly murder of a woman inside a home in suburban Atlanta, authorities say. Ronisha Preckwinkle, 40, was arrested July 10 and charged with murder, tampering with evidence and false imprisonment in connection with the attack that happened at an apartment in Stockbridge, a southeast suburb of Atlanta, according to police and prosecutors in Henry County, Georgia. She is married to Kyle Preckwinkle, Toni Preckwinkle’s son. The couple lived with their children in a Hyde Park condominium where Chicago police were repeatedly...

Laboratory studies indicate that a cheap generic drug reduces SARS-CoV-2 infection in human cells by up to 70%. The drug, called fenofibrate, regulates cholesterol levels but also destabilizes the spike protein on SARS-CoV-2 and inhibits binding to human cells. It was effective against all the SARS-CoV-2 variants that the scientists tested in vitro. An international effort — involving scientists from Keele University and the University of Birmingham, both in the United Kingdom, and the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan — has found that a drug that people formerly used to control cholesterol levels could be an effective treatment against...

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MANILA – In his stated wish to end America’s “forever wars” and accordingly refocus the country’s foreign policy more directly on China, US President Joseph Biden pressed ahead with a hasty exit from Afghanistan. Convinced that the United States has done more than enough of its share of responsibility by spending trillions of dollars on nation-building in Afghanistan, Biden repeatedly resisted or ignored warnings by his top defense officials of a precipitous collapse in favor of Taliban forces. But the “hard and messy” exit and the seamless victory of Taliban forces has sent shockwaves across the world, threatening to undermine...

--(snip) And does confiscating guns by the thousands each year reduce gun violence? The fact is, there is no correlation between the number of guns recovered and the level of gun violence. In 2016, gun recoveries rose by 25% while the number of homicides increased almost 60%. In 2020, gun recoveries rose by about 50% the same as the homicide rate. . Some years, both numbers drop. It may feel counterintuitive, but the likely explanation is simple. The vast majority of people carrying guns are not active shooters. They simply don’t feel safe, in large part because so few shootings...

New Delhi (CNN Business)It's been two days since Kabul fell to the Taliban and social media giants are scrambling to figure out how to deal with the takeover of Afghanistan by the militants. On Tuesday, Facebook (FB) reiterated its ban on accounts praising, supporting, or representing the Taliban from its platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram, and said that it would remove "accounts maintained by or on behalf of the Taliban." "The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organization under US law and we have banned them from our services under our Dangerous Organization policies," a company spokesperson said.

Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis said his country would not allow refugees from Afghanistan to cross its borders into the European Union, in light of developments in Afghanistan. "We do not want our country to become the gateway to the EU for people who want to head to Europe," Mitarakis said in comments carried by national broadcaster ERT. The EU’s interior ministers are scheduled on Wednesday to discuss the new situation in Afghanistan where Taliban forces took effective control of the country on Sunday. Mitarakis emphasized the need for a joint migration policy, adding that his country would continue to...