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This afternoon he, Joe Biden and other G7 leaders held an emergency summit, after which the following statement was released: "We reaffirm our steadfast commitment to the people of Afghanistan... We express our grave concern about the situation in Afghanistan... "We call for adherence to obligations under international human rights law, including the rights of women, girls, and minority groups, and that international humanitarian law is upheld in all circumstances. We honour the significant sacrifices made by the Afghan people, people of our own countries, and countless others, who have worked toward a more peaceful, just and secure future for...

Vice President Kamala Harris gave credit to President Biden for deciding to end the war in Afghanistan, even though members of the administration – including Biden himself – have blamed former President Trump for agreeing to withdraw U.S. troops. As the U.S. has been scrambling to evacuate Americans and allies out of Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Taliban’s takeover of the country, Harris portrayed the situation as the result of correct decision-making by the current administration without mentioning the Taliban’s swift victory.

It was the Food and Drug Administration's Monday announcement that it has granted full approval to Pfizer and BioNTech for their COVID-19 vaccine that convinced 19-year-old Cailin Magee to line up at a vaccine clinic at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and get the shot. "I was being ignorant. There's really no running away from it anymore," Magee told CBS News' David Begnaud. After the approval, President Biden encouraged more people who were waiting for the FDA's approval to get the vaccine—calling the FDA's approval the "gold standard." One of those on the fence was 19-year-old Callie Roszell. She...

Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest man in the United States, has died in Minnesota. He was 38. His family said Vovkovinskiy died of heart disease on Friday at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. His mother, Svetlana Vovkovinska, an intensive care unit nurse at Mayo, initially posted about his death on Facebook. Vovkovinskiy, who was born in the Ukraine, came to the Mayo Clinic in 1989 as a child seeking treatment. A tumor pressing against his pituitary gland caused it to secrete abnormal levels of growth hormone. He grew to become the tallest man in the U.S. at and ended up staying...

My dear friend's, once America's restraint is totally and fully removed from this present evil world (as we are seeing today), what is to stop the global lawless march to doomsday and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse's ride (2 Thess. 2:2-8, Rev. 6-19)! My friends, a very sobering NOTHING! That is right, NOTHING! We are at the bottom of the super accelerating vortex in world's history, where there is no more time, room and remedies to fix our nation and world's horrific EXPONENTIAL ills. We are at the bottom of the super accelerating vortex in world's history, where there...

The G7 group of nations has agreed a "roadmap" for future engagement with the Taliban and will insist on the "safe passage" of people who want to leave Afghanistan beyond 31 August, Boris Johnson has said. The prime minister was speaking after a virtual G7 summit about the evacuation of people from Afghanistan. Mr Johnson was expected to use the talks to press US President Joe Biden to extend the deadline for pulling out his remaining troops from Afghanistan to allow evacuations to continue. He said the UK had managed to evacuate 9,000 people so far and "we're confident we...

Yeah, I understand that this is Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff, one of Congress’s worst liars, however what he’s saying today, after storming out of a confidential briefing, concurs with a lot of what we’ve learned in the media about Biden’s Afghanistan debacle, and it’s not good for him. From CNN reporter Ryan Nobles: NEW: House Intel Chair Adam Schiff just left a classified intel briefing on Afghanistan and broke a significant amount of news. Here are some of the highlights. First he said getting all Americans and allies out of the country by 8/31 is unlikely.. “Given the number of Americans...

As my old salty NAVY Chief use to tell all of us Jr. NCO's "If I walk thru a pasture with 20 or so Cows, then step into something soft and moist; I don't need to look down to figure out what I just stepped in!" While the Biden Administration and the MSM that willing helped install this incompetent fool continue to refer to the Americans that Biden has abandon in Afghanistan as "stranded" the correct terminology is "hostage!" When you are unable to move about freely, must dodge check points manned by armed militants, hide from your former friends...

Joe Biden today shrugged off pleas from Boris Johnson and other allies to extend the Kabul evacuation after the Taliban warned it will not tolerate delay to the August 31 deadline for troops leaving. Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel used a G7 meeting to urge the president to keep the operation going longer, but the entreaties appear to have fallen on deaf ears. White House sources said Mr Biden had instead agreed with the Pentagon that there would be no change to the timeline of the mission. The rebuttal came after the Taliban repeating blood-curdling warnings of consequences...

The poor air quality on Monday resulted in canceled flights and closures of schools, parks and popular summer beaches in the Reno and Lake Tahoe areas. The National Weather Service said prevailing winds from the west mean “significant smoke and air quality impacts” will continue much of this week, affecting Reno, Lake Tahoe, Carson City and other areas. In Las Vegas, more than 400 miles (644 kilometers) south of Reno, Clark County air quality officials issued a smoke advisory for Tuesday.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban spokesman says the U.S. must complete its evacuation of people from Afghanistan by the Aug. 31 date the Biden administration set for the withdrawal of all American troops. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid says his group will accept “no extensions” to the deadline.

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Llama antibodies could be a potent force in preventing infections from contagious COVID-19 variants, a biomedical company has claimed. Researchers from the VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology in Ghent, Belgium, have found that antibodies extracted from a llama named Winter have neutralized the virus, including its variants, in laboratory testing. The treatment would supplement vaccines by giving enhanced protection to people with weakened immune systems or help people who have been hospitalized with the virus, the company said

President Biden Remarks on Afghanistan

The House scrapped a planned vote to advance two key economic proposals as centrist Democrats and party leaders failed to break a stalemate over how to proceed with President Joe Biden’s sprawling economic agenda. The chamber will reconvene at noon ET on Tuesday as Democrats try to strike a deal to move forward with legislation they see as an economic boon and a lifeline for households. House Democrats hope to take a procedural vote as soon as early Tuesday afternoon. Biden’s domestic policy goals, and his party’s push to retain control of Congress in next year’s midterms, could hinge on...

With the possible exception of the United States itself, there exists few, if any, places on planet earth with a mythos quite as alluring as California. Woodie Guthrie’s 1944 ballad This Land is Your Land is a song about many things, but at face value is about the beauty of America’s geography. In one of the most famous folk songs written about this nation, Guthrie spends much of his time alluding to the beauty of the regions in the once-Golden State. Almost 55 years since Guthrie’s passing, the ‘endless skyway’ he described is now clouded by the smoke of preventable...

Liberal chat show host Bill Maher has announced he has no plans to get a COVID vaccine booster shot - and said he only got vaccinated in the first place to 'take one for the team.' On Friday's episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the 64 year-old said: 'I never wanted the vaccine, I took one for the team. 'And by the way, do you know who doesn't get a lot of vaccines? Millennials,' Maher said. 'I know a lot of millennials, especially the 20 year-olds, they don't think they need it, they're probably right. But I tell them...

The White House left out an important point from the readout of a recent call between U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron. A readout provided by the French government mentioned the “collective moral responsibility toward the Afghan men and women” that the two leaders reportedly discussed in the call Thursday. “The head of state emphasized our collective moral responsibility toward the Afghan men and women who need our protection and who share our values. We cannot abandon them,” the French readout of the call said. “The two presidents agreed to strengthen their efforts in the humanitarian and...

Virginia's Redistricting Commission voted on Monday to redraw the commonwealth's congressional and state legislative districts from scratch, marking a victory for anti-gerrymandering advocates. The 16-person commission, made up of eight Virginia lawmakers and eight citizens, voted 12-4 and planned to enlist a bipartisan group to help outline the state's new political maps. The development comes after voters approved a constitutional amendment last fall that moved the power in the redrawing process from the state legislature to the commission. Voters previously voiced concerns that earlier maps have been heavily influenced by politics.

Recent events have shown what many of us who watched ever-increasing attempts to politicize the military over the last election cycle feared most - partisan political ideology has supplanted competency as the defining attribute of our military’s top leaders. There were rumblings about the divide between the Trump administration and the Pentagon’s top generals around the November 2020 Presidential election, which was the first time in recent memory such information found its way into public view. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Mark Milley, went so far as to distance himself and apologize for appearing alongside his Commander-in-Chief during the...