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“We look like a deer caught in the headlights,” says Mathew Burrows, a former senior CIA officer now at the Atlantic Council. “It is one more chink gone in the American empire.” The scenes of chaos at the Hamid Karzai International Airport will supply anti-American propagandists with years of footage. America’s failure after two decades of fruitless nation-building has many authors, starting with George W Bush and including Barack Obama and Donald Trump. But as the president on whose watch the concluding fiasco took place, Joe Biden’s name will be indelibly linked to it. The question is whether he can...

In yet another recent sign that Joe Biden is losing the support of much of the liberal media due to the debacle caused by his enormous mishandling of the exit from Afghanistan, the Los Angeles Times has now revealed the real purpose of a new War Room set up at the White House.Now, you would think that such a War Room would be for planning the rescue of American citizens and Afghans who worked for the United States from the clutches of the Taliban, right? Wrong.

THE US has been targeted by a cyber attack in a "possible serious breach", according to sources. Fox News' White House Correspondent Jacquie Heinrich tweeted: "The State Department has been hit by a cyber attack, and notifications of a possible serious breach were made by the Department of Defense Cyber Command. "It is unclear when the breach was discovered, but it is believed to have happened a couple weeks ago. "A source familiar tells Fox the State Department’s ongoing mission to evacuate Americans and allied refugees in Afghanistan “have not been affected”. "The extent of the breach, investigation into the...

This morning, Iraq hanged 36 men in Nasiriyah prison for a 2014 sectarian massacre perpetrated by the emerging Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL). After months’ gestation in the Syrian civil war, the Sunni ISIS in June 2014 burst out of its enclaves and in the course of a few jeep-racing weeks gobbled upper Mesopotamia. It publicly declared its border-straddling conquests the Caliphate on June 29, 2014. Iraq’s army mostly melted away ahead of the onrushing threat that summer, abandoning weapons and fleeing while ISIS overran Mosul on June 10, then advanced another 200 km to snatch Saddam Hussein‘s birthplace of...

STATE COLLEGE — Penn State won’t require fans at Nittany Lions football games this fall to present proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test in order to gain entrance to Beaver Stadium, vice president of intercollegiate athletics Sandy Barbour said Saturday. “The required vaccination is not in our plan at this point,” Barbour said over Zoom. On Friday, Oregon and Oregon State became the first Power Five football programs to announce they will require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to attend games at Autzen Stadium and Reser Stadium, respectively, this fall. Earlier this month, Tulane became...

If you had to take a vaccine of the three existing vaccines which would you take?

The family of the severely wounded partner of slain Chicago cop Ella French has released a video in which the officer spoke publicly for the first time since the shooting — as his father ripped the mayor on police reform. (snip) Meanwhile, Yanez’s father slammed Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot for a series of reforms and policy changes that he claimed laid the groundwork for the traffic stop that led to the shooting. Former cop Carlos Yanez Sr. told the Chicago Sun-Times that he twice told the mayor’s office staff that his son was “not a fan of Lori Lightfoot, to...

Tony Award-winning Broadway actress Alice Ripley has denied grooming young fans with mental health issues - but says she's sorry for befriending the women then ghosting them. Four women have accused Tony Award-winning Broadway actress Alice Ripley of 'manipulating' them and running a cult-like base of young fans. The women also made accusations of unsolicited advances. Ripley vehemently denies 'vile' accusations of grooming, saying the term has made her feel like a sex attacker, and that she inflicted no such abuse on her fans. 'It is a misinterpretation of my actions to say I manipulated anyone, and more shockingly, that...

As the head of private equity firm The Abraaj Group, Naqvi was a pioneer in the field of impact investing, which sought to make money for investors while doing good for the world. He spent the week rubbing shoulders with some of the world’s richest and most powerful people, including Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and then-Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. But how did one man spin a story that allowed him to con some of the world’s smartest investors? Two months later, the US government invested $150 million in Abraaj. While Naqvi sought funds from mega donors to help the...

He’s the new Trump tower. Teenage former first son Barron Trump was photographed in the Big Apple this week — towering over his 5-foot-11-inch mom, Melania. The rarely photographed youngest son of former President Donald Trump is already 6 feet 7 inches tall — even though he only just turned 15. He looked every inch of it on Wednesday when he stood head and shoulders over his mom and their security detail as they were snapped leaving their Manhattan home, the suitably named Trump Tower. The towering teen, wearing a dark, long-sleeve T-shirt tucked into his jeans, also appeared to...

Former President Donald Trump Wednesday said plans to give booster vaccinations sound to him like a "money-making operation" for vaccine-maker Pfizer. "Think of the money involved," Trump told Fox Business's Maria Bartiromo during a phone interview on her program. "That's tens of billions of dollars. If you are a pure businessman, you say 'you know what, let's give them another shot. That is another $10 billion of money coming in. The whole thing is crazy." Trump, before the anticipated announcement, said that when the vaccines first came out during his administration, "they were good for life. Then they were good...

Fox News’ Sean Hannity drew in the highest number of viewers in cable news Tuesday night when he spoke to former president Donald Trump. The only other show in all of television that got more eyeballs, according to Nielsen Media Research ratings data, was NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.” Here’s how the numbers broke down: At 8 p.m. ET, “AGT” brought in a total average of 6.901 million viewers, of whom 1.69 million were in the advertiser-coveted age demographic of 25 to 54, on average. “Hannity” took in a total average of 4.82 million viewers at 9 p.m. ET. Of those,...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths were high yesterday - revision of the prior day's Case numbers make it look less like a peak, although the growth rate is slowing - Vaccinations strong again yesterday (over a million, for the third day) - Over 200 Million Americans have at least one shot of vaccine (60%), 170 million fully vaccinated (51%) - FDA expected to grant Pfizer Full Approval next week) Administered: 361,684,564 (14,099,089 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 200,947,556 Fully Vaccinated: 170,406,785

Raymond Leo Burke, a high-ranking Catholic cardinal who was in serious condition with COVID-19 earlier this week, has been taken off a ventilator and released from the intensive care unit. According to a statement posted on Burke's official Twitter page, the cardinal has "expressed his deep gratitude for the many prayers offered on his behalf." On Tuesday, Burke, the former archbishop of St. Louis, was listed in "serious but stable condition" after having been put on a ventilator last weekend. His family and the church have not revealed where he is being treated, but asked for prayers and a "full...

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Friday introduced three separate resolutions in the House formally calling for President Joe Biden's impeachment. "Today, I introduced three impeachment resolutions against Joe Biden for his dereliction of duty in Afghanistan, his violations of immigration law causing a national security crisis on our Southern border, and his usurping of Congressional power by ignoring the SCOTUS," tweeted the member of Congress on Friday. In the text of the filing itself, which is not the first of its kind filed by the controversial congresswoman, Greene says: "In seven short months, Joe Biden has caused America to...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Healthy and in their 30s, Christina and Josh Tidmore figured they were low-risk for COVID-19. With conflicting viewpoints about whether to get vaccinated against the virus filling their social media feeds and social circles, they decided to wait. On July 20, Josh came home from work with a slight cough initially thought to be sinus trouble. On Aug. 11, he died of COVID-19 at a north Alabama hospital as Christina Tidmore witnessed a doctor and her team frantically try to resuscitate her husband. “She would say, ’I need a pulse. ’I would hear, ‘no pulse,’ “Christina...

Geofence warrants are also known as “reverse-location” warrants, since they seek to identify people of interest who were in the near vicinity at the time a crime was committed. Police do this by asking a court to order Google, which stores vast amounts of location data to drive its advertising business, to turn over details of who was in a geographic area, such as a radius of a few hundred feet at a certain point in time, to help identify potential suspects.

The Kabul airport gates are reportedly closed Saturday, as additional details indicate the Taliban is confiscating U.S. passports. “All of the entrance gates to the airport were closed on Saturday morning because of the dangerous situation,” the New York Times reported, adding that the U.S. embassy in Kabul is advising evacuees not to travel to the airport in light of “security threats.” "Because of potential security threats outside the gates at the Kabul airport,” the embassy alerted on its website, “we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless...

Yesterday I was at my local Foodland buying a large bag of Purina Dog Chow for my loyal pet, Jake, the Wonder Dog, and was in the check-out line when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had....an elephant ? So because I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that 'I probably shouldn't, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened...