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The U.S. has no plans to evacuate Americans in Afghanistan who are located outside Kabul, according to a report Tuesday. Officials from various departments — including State and Defense — informed Senate staffers at a Tuesday morning briefing that they do not know of a way to get those Americans through Taliban checkpoints located outside Kabul, the location of the main airport, The Washington Post reported, citing two Senate aides. Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton’s office set up a hotline for Americans — including those who are essentially "trapped behind Taliban lines," The Military Times reported. "The situation is dire,"...

JACKSON, Miss. — On normal days, the garage is where people park while visiting Mississippi’s only children’s hospital, a building next door decorated with a logo of a rainbow and sun. Now air-conditioned tents with beds, monitors and oxygen fill the garage’s bottom floor. By Wednesday, coronavirus patients will begin being treated in Mississippi’s second field hospital opened within days on the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus. It comes as the surging delta variant of COVID-19 has overwhelmed hospitals in a state with one of the nation’s lowest vaccination rates

The FBI had knowledge that a second laptop had been stolen from Hunter Biden and that laptop contained material making the Biden family a national security risk, subject to Russian influence. ======================================================================================= The FBI knew as early as December 2019 that Hunter Biden believed Russians had stolen his laptop, which he believed made him vulnerable to blackmail because of compromising evidence on the laptop combined with his father’s presidential ambitions. This explosive revelation establishes that either Joe Biden lied to the American public, or the intelligence community lied to him. When The New York Post went public in October 2020...

Elections are completely safe and free from all fraud. This is what we are told every day by the mainstream media and Democrat elites. Yet we continue to see a mountain of instances of fraud around the country leading to arrests and charges in multiple states. And they all seem to be on one side of the political isle.. (Hint, they ain’t Republicans). Several people have been arrested and charged with rigging elections for Democrats in California, according to reports. Democrat Compton City Councilman Isaac Galvan is among six people who have been charged with election fraud in Los Angeles...

Chinese analysts mocked the remarks of White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who said that the US' commitment to Taiwan "remains as strong as it's ever been," pointing out that actions speak louder than words and that Washington's reassurances are astonishing against the backdrop of its abrupt withdrawal from Afghanistan. They said that once the price for keeping its strategic interests with Taiwan becomes unbearable, the US will abandon Taiwan island without hesitation. During a press conference on Tuesday, in response to questions that people in Taiwan island and elsewhere are fearful that the US will abandon them like...

The Taliban told Reuters they have started confiscated firearms from residents of Kabul because they are no longer needed since they do not intend to harm innocent civilians. "We understand people kept weapons for personal safety. They can now feel safe. We are not here to harm innocent civilians," a Taliban official told Reuters. Saad Mohseni, director of the MOBY group media company, said on Twitter Taliban fighters came to his company compound to inquire about the weapons kept by his security team. It is certainly a weapon and military gear bonanza as videos from Afghanistan show Taliban troops taking...

The Chinese Embassy in Afghanistan is operating as normal, and the Taliban has pledged to guarantee its safety, the Chinese ambassador to Afghanistan told the Global Times, who sent a photo of Chinese national flag waving in front of the embassy building. Ambassador Wang Yu told the Global Times on Tuesday that according to his knowledge, the embassies of Russia, Pakistan and Iran are also operating. Embassy staffers of Western countries have been transferred to the airport, which is controlled by the US military. The ambassador said that there are only embassy employees as diplomats’ families have not accompanied them...

... The ideology of critical race theory puts, at its core, in its center, that race is the most important thing in a student’s life. That skin color is the most important thing in how their life is going to develop. It’s an extremely pernicious ideology. If you wanted to think of a way to tear this country apart, it’s hard to think of a way better than what they are doing. You are pitting students against each other based on skin color. You are pitting students against their parents. There was that horrible incident that just happened where a...

President Joe Biden plans to spend Wednesday pivoting his priorities back to the coronavirus pandemic, even as thousands of Americans remain stranded in Afghanistan. The president plans to meet with his coronavirus team in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon, according to his schedule, before delivering remarks about the pandemic at 4:30 p.m.

More confusion is unraveling across the state as elected officials continue quarreling about their authority to impose mask mandates, all while trying to force old rules on citizens that didn’t work the first time. Power Fight The saga originally began last year, when Gov. Greg Abbott issued executive orders closing businesses and imposing mask mandates in response to the Chinese coronavirus. Then, in July, he issued an executive order that local officials are not allowed to mandate masks on citizens. Despite Abbott’s most recent order, local officials across Texas have started disregarding it and imposing their own local mask requirements....

China today threatened to 'crush' any US troops stationed on Taiwan as it conducts live fire drills in the South China Sea after Joe Biden abandoned Afghanistan. An editorial in the regime-backed Global Times lashed out at a since-deleted tweet by Senator John Cornyn which erroneously stated there were 30,000 American soldiers stationed in Taiwan. The bombastic propaganda article said: 'It is equivalent to a military invasion and occupation of the Taiwan Province of China. It is an act of declaring war on the People's Republic of China ... 'It is believed that China will immediately put the Anti-Secession Law...

A top Alabama health official this week announced that the state has more intensive care patients than ICU beds to care for them. Alabama Hospital Association President Don Williamson told an NBC News affiliate station in Montgomery on Tuesday that the state hospital system is facing a “negative” number of available ICU beds. “We’ve never been here before. We are in truly now in uncharted territory in terms of our ICU bed capacity,” Williamson said.

They may be new to the EV motorcycle manufacturing game, but Danish manufacturer Offset is crashing the party with style and guts. Their new battery-powered cycle, OFR-M1, does what few have tried before by cramming a brawny all-electric drivetrain into a cycle aimed at taking on off-road terrain. While it may weigh in at just 253 pounds (115 kg), this rough and tumble dirtbike can do zero to 62 mph (99 kph) in 4.5 seconds and reach a top speed of 80 mph (128 kph). It does the trick by using a 6.2 kWh battery pack to spin a “radial...

Suggestions that Americans get the vaccine are endless. That’s understandable. The vaccines appear to work in helping to reduce the likelihood of contracting Covid. People see that there is a possibility to stop the spread of a deadly virus and they want to encourage others to participate. What’s not understandable are the relentless demands and the push for vaccine mandates. Do it for your fellow Americans! Real patriotism is getting the vaccine! Don’t you care about your family? These are all intended to shame the unvaccinated into getting the shot. And if those don’t work, there are the mandates. We’ve...

While discussing masks mandates, author Naomi Wolf expresses shock that a new study from Brown University — which suggests a 21% drop in children’s IQ during the pandemic — is not front page news. In the decade preceding the pandemic, the mean IQ score on standardized tests for children aged between three months and three years of age hovered around 100, but for children born during the pandemic that number tumbled to 78. They added mask-wearing by adults may have also impacted babies’ development because children were less able to learn from facial cues. But this angle was not fully...

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The Taliban sent Joe Biden a message Tuesday by posing for a photograph, which later end up on Twitter, showing fighters holding ice cream cones. The message is clear. They know Biden is a weak, mentally disabled joke of a man, and they have zero fear of America under his leadership. This is the image Biden has projected to America’s enemies.

Most voters aren’t buying President Joe Biden’s attempt to shift the blame for the Taliban’s sudden takeover of Afghanistan. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters say Biden is more to blame for the Taliban taking over Afghanistan, while 38% say former President Trump is more to blame. Fifteen percent (15%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

“The past 18 months have taught me that while you cannot control the world around you, you can control how you live within those circumstances. That is what defines who you are and what builds resilience and character,” he said of how he approached his responsibilities as a university president, requiring him to keep his students safe while providing a worthy education.