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The Pentagon contradicted President Joe Biden multiple times Friday, immediately after he delivered remarks on the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan this week. Biden said at a White House press conference that al-Qaeda was “gone” from Afghanistan, only to have the Pentagon dispel that notion less than an hour later. “Look, let’s put this thing in perspective here. What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point with al-Qaeda gone? We went to Afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan as well as, as well as getting Osama bin Laden, and we did,” Biden said....

In an effort to dig up evidence that could absolve Josh Duggar, the former TLC star's defense team is seeking more information from the multiple police departments that prosecutors say downloaded child sexual abuse files from his IP address. In a partial victory on Thursday, a federal judge granted the Duggar team's request. Judge Timothy Brooks ruled that prosecutors could likely work with federal agents to obtain the information Duggar's team wanted from the Jonesboro and Ozark police departments in Arkansas. "The defense has persuaded the Court that the auto-generated logs emailed to the three officers could disclose information to...

In a momentous legal defeat for Gov. Andy Beshear, the Kentucky Supreme Court in a rare Saturday decision ruled on the Democratic governor’s challenge of Republican-backed laws that limit his authority to enact emergency orders to help control the coronavirus pandemic. ...

US critics are calling President Joe Biden’s blundering exit from Afghanistan his “Saigon moment,” because the evacuation of American and Afghan civilians from Kabul strongly resembled the disorderly, final abandonment of Vietnam 46 years ago. Reminders of the Vietnam War climax included scenes of rescue helicopters taking off from the US embassy roof, desperate Afghan refugees storming the mission’s gates and toddlers being hoisted by their parents over compound walls. Politically, the events have tarred Biden as incompetent. It also struck at the heart of one of Biden’s self-declared goals: showing that government can do things right – in contrast...

Actress Angelina Jolie ripped President Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, which she called “sickening,” and “a betrayal and a failure impossible to fully understand.”“Whatever your views on the war in Afghanistan, we probably agree on one thing: it should not have ended this way,” Angelina Jolie wrote in an op-ed she wrote for TIME magazine on Friday, adding that as an American, she is “ashamed by the manner of our leaving.”The Eternals star added that “appearing to cut and run, and abandoning our allies and supporters in the most chaotic way imaginable, after so many years of effort and sacrifice,...

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I ask that you please bear with me as get something off my chest. I have been somewhat calm, yet quietly angry inside for the last 5 years. However, something happened today that is finally making my frustration meter reach the ballistic stage. Before I start going Rambo on some bureaucrats, I need to get this all off my chest. This will be long, but what I am sharing with you is what my life has been like in the last 5 years.I turn 65 on September 17, next Month. Now I have been collecting my SS check for...

“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