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Stunning videos of brave women leading men in protests against the Taliban on the streets of Kabul have emerged online. Many Afghan women now fear for their lives and safety under brutal Taliban rule, which has historically brutally restricted the rights of women and girls. But some were seen marching in front of and alongside men during protests on Thursday... In one video, a woman is seen raising her fist, urging the men around her to move forward and keep marching... Other videos from the Independence Day protests in Kabul also showed women marching shoulder-to-shoulder with young men, holding the...

Hong Kong (CNN Business)China's crackdown on private business has taken a new, more intrusive turn with government plans to dictate how live-stream shopping influencers speak and dress.... ..."When the host streams live, his or her clothing and image should not violate public order or good morals," the ministry wrote, adding that "their appearance should also reflect the characteristics of the products or services they are marketing."... ...The rules also suggest that hosts "speak Mandarin///

President Walter Biden answers questions from Bubba J. Of the Beer Daily and a disguised former President Grump

Earlier this week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19. For many, it wasn’t that big of a surprise. He’s a busy man who meets with a lot of people and despite being vaccinated, vaccinations aren’t a guaranteed way of staying COVID-free. His positive diagnosis, while sad, likely won’t be the end of the world for us or him. As of this writing, he’s asymptomatic and doing fine.Rather predictably, the left is doing everything short of throwing themselves a parade. Leftists on the internet are beside themselves with joy and are wishing him all the...

As the Taliban horror story continues to unfold in Kabul and other cities across Afghanistan, a little more than 60 miles away from the besieged capital lies Panjshir, Afghanistan’s last free province.Moreover, Panjshir — which translates to “Five Lions From Persia” — has never been conquered, either by foreigners, the Taliban, or the Afghans. It remains a liberated zone.And if the Taliban decides to take on the lone free province, as reported by our own Hollie McKay?The Islamist extremists are going to be met by armed, fiercely independent forces who — unlike the rest of the country, including its president...

Lawsuit battles over vaccine mandates continue to heat up across the country. The Independent Restaurant Owners Association Rescue (IROAR) filed a lawsuit against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over the vaccine mandate he imposed on indoor dining venues, entertainment establishments, and fitness studios.Those seeking redress: individuals who have pre-existing conditions where a vaccine would do them harm rather than help, and those who have had COVID-19 and recovered, and their natural immunity is equivalent, if not more robust, than the current vaccines.Todd Zywicki, a 24-year tenured law professor at George Mason University (GMU), won a victory in his...

London (CNN)When US President Joe Biden finally broke his silence on the chaos unfolding in Afghanistan, European allies who'd had high hopes for a reset in the transatlantic alliance were left dismayed. Their disappointment was not at the contents of Biden's address, but the America First optics of the leader of the free world washing his hands of a global problem. ... ...From London to Paris, Brussels to Berlin, the sudden fall of Kabul shone a light on Europe's limited diplomatic heft, military capacity, and political stability. Diplomats and officials all over the continent have privately expressed their sorrow that...

Americans were left in the lurch by Joe Biden, stuck behind enemy lines in Afghanistan, despite the fact that the Biden team was warned about the impending collapse of Afghanistan and Kabul. They were then told that if they were outside of Kabul, there was no plan to get them out. Even the people in Kabul were told: Figure out your own way to the airport through the Taliban because we’re not going to help get you there.Now, just in perspective, understand that the French and the British are actually going out and extracting their citizens in Kabul and bringing...

(CNN)Two photographs of President Joe Biden this week neatly illustrated the White House's fight to contain the fallout of the biggest crisis of his presidency.

The Taliban on Wednesday executed Haji Mullah Achakzai, the police chief of the Badghis province near Herat, Afghanistan.... The insurgents have been on the lookout for Achakzai who long-fought the Taliban alongside the Afghan civil government which fell as the insurgents took control of the nation....

Federal health officials are investigating emerging reports that the Moderna coronavirus vaccine may be associated with a higher risk of a heart condition called myocarditis in younger adults than previously believed, according to two people familiar with the review who emphasized the side effect still probably remains uncommon.

They were elementary and homemade at first before becoming commercialized and mass-produced, but plastic dividers became as commonplace during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic as the paper masks that now litter city streets. Put up with the aim of blocking droplets from the noses and mouths of the COVID-infected among us, they became a sort of virtue signal for businesses to show that they cared about the safety of their customers and employees. Plastic dividers popped up to separate Uber drivers from their passengers, supermarket cashiers from customers, students from teachers, and virtually every place there used to be unimpeded face-to-face...

After almost 20 years, America under the incompetent leadership of pResident Biden has humiliated our great country by his incredible bungling pull-out move of our military in Afghanistan and the death and mayhem that ensued.Is this move similar to our pull-out in Vietnam?Why or why not?Thank you to our Afghanistan Veterans, you are very much appreciated!

Russian President Vladimir Putin objected to President Joe Biden's June 16 summit suggestion to reposition withdrawn Afghanistan forces in Central Asian countries, The Wall Street Journal reported. Biden had sought Putin's support for the temporary forces being repositioned near Afghanistan as part of "over-the-horizon" support, senior U.S. and Russian officials told the Journal. The previously unreported exchange has complicated Biden's planned Afghanistan troop drawdown later this summer, including military drone support and counterterror forces in countries neighboring Afghanistan, and deepened the chaos of the Taliban's takeover of the surrendering Afghanistan military over the weekend, according to the report. "We do...

Yesterday Jovan Pulitzer reported that the Arizona Audit Report of the 2020 Election in Maricopa County will be provided to the Arizona Senate on Friday: Jovan Pulitzer surprised us all once again and likely scared the hell out of any election fraudsters in the process. In a video he released Wednesday on Twitter, Jovan explained that identifying markings are in fact on the ballots and are exactly what they were looking for during the audit! He explained it wasn’t bamboo paper as audit detractors claimed, and it wasn’t secret “watermarks” either. It was, however, a secret printer identifying protocol established...

Nobody can do a backfire like Joe Biden. The man currently presiding over the country’s worst international humiliation since Jimmy Carter held the office of president probably thought it was a good idea to limit his media interviews to ABC News’ generally reliable Democratic lapdog George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday. But when the interview in the aftermath of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan actually aired, the results could not have been what the Biden White House was hoping for — because the backlash is brutal. Outrageous optics for Biden to do a friendly interview with former Democrat staffer George Stephanopoulos but...

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- Arizona Sec. of State Katie Hobbs (D) has released her 122-page report on the Arizona Senate's audit of the 2020 election. She says the audit was filled with "security lapses, delays, disorganization, and lack of transparency." It comes just one day after Maricopa County announced it will seek reimbursement for new voting machines.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Well before U.S. President Joe Biden took office early this year, the European Union's foreign policy chief sang his praises and hailed a new era in cooperation. So did almost all of Washington's Western allies. The EU's Josep Borrell was glad to see the end of the Trump era, with its America First, and sometimes America Only policy, enthralled by Biden's assertion that he would "lead, not merely by the example of our power, but by the power of our example." Sunday's collapse of Kabul, triggered by Biden's decision to get out of Afghanistan and a U.S....

President Joe Biden says he and his wife will get a COVID-19 booster shot, following their first two doses in December. The president told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that it’s “past time” for him to get a booster. U.S. health officials announced Wednesday recommendations that Americans who received the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine get a booster shot eight months after their second dose. U.S. health officials say it is “very clear” the vaccines’ protection against infections wanes over time. They announced plans to dispense COVID-19 booster shots to all Americans to shore up their protection against the surging delta variant.

An advocacy group focused on protecting public parks in Chicago has asked the Supreme Court to temporarily halt construction of former President Obama’s presidential library which kicked off Monday. In an emergency request for a temporary injunction filed with the Supreme Court on Tuesday, the nonprofit Protect Our Parks argued that the federal government failed to carry out required environmental reviews for the Obama Presidential Center, which is being constructed in the historic Jackson Park. The group has long been opposed to construction of the library in the park located on the city’s South Side, claiming construction will put the...