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Violent explosions are heard in Sderot and the Gaza Envelope area following the dumping of Gazan explosives at the perimeter fence on the Gaza Strip border. (Clip)

BREAKING: President Biden on mission in Kabul: “Our commanders informed me that an attack is highly likely in the next 24-36 hours.”

The spokesman and head of foreign relations for Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Massoud said the Biden administration has not been in touch with the group since Taliban insurgents seized control of Afghanistan this month. Nazary told the Washington Examiner that the front’s stronghold in northeastern Afghanistan’s Panjshir province could be used as a haven for people stuck in Kabul, where suicide attacks outside the international airport on Thursday killed at least a dozen U.S. military personnel and scores of Afghan civilians. He said it had been several months since he last spoke with the White House and characterized the silence...

Justin Trudeau has been forced to cancel an election rally after a crowd of angry protesters ambushed the event. The Canadian prime minister had been set to address supporters in Bolton, Ontario, but the event was called off over security concerns. Dozens of protesters gathered at the rally and shouted obscenities before Mr Trudeau could speak. The Liberal prime minister is hoping to secure a majority in a snap general election he called earlier this month. But in recent days his canvassing efforts have been dogged by protests against Covid-19 vaccines and government restrictions.

The letter requests DHS provide names of detained illegal aliens in Florida, as well as the names and addresses of their sponsors and "dates and locations of their removal proceedings." The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on Aug. 19 ruled against President Joe Biden's immigration policies and ordered DHS to deport criminals in the country illegally upon release from jails and prisons. The governor said that when visiting Florida law enforcement officers deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border in July, they told him that seven of 10 aliens they found trying to cross the border said they...

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a highly infectious virus that can lead to serious disease in children. The virus emerges each year roughly at the time school starts in the fall and subsides later in the spring. Midsummer RSV is unusual. Last year we did not see the typical rise in RSV, but this year the RSV surge started much earlier and is of much greater magnitude than normal. Our COVD-19 response has unintentionally increased children’s risk from RSV infection.Respiratory syncytial virus, named because of the unique appearance of infected cells under the microscope.Lock downs, social distancing, and masking, whether...

A report circulating about President Donald Trump in Japan seems a little fishy. When the president met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for lunch at the Government Palace Sunday, Abe had boxes full of fish food for the two leaders to feed the inhabitants of a Koi pond. Reports immediately began surfacing, mostly on on social media, that Trump had simply dumped his entire box of fish food into the water.

If you heard that a news organization had performed an instant political microanalysis of the effect that the Thursday bombings near Kabul airport would have on the midterm elections over a year away, you could be forgiven if you thought the report was from the Babylon Bee. However, in this case the report was all too real and it originated in Politico barely an hour after a news alert announced the bombings. In that brief time, Politico writers Olivia Beavers and Andrew Desiderio revealed an absurdly constricted field of vision by focusing on the effect of the explosions on the...

I apologize if this has been addressed through a news source, or on the forum earlier. I am a Navy veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and I served in two deployments to the Middle East on a ship. I make no claims about my knowledge of the Marines, the army, or the Air Force, or those things outside of what I did as a sailor. But there are some things about Afganstan that are nagging my mind; news reports just aren't making sense. When I first got out of the Navy, one of the questions that the VA kept asking...

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm earlier this week chartered a military jet to attend a diplomatic summit in Ukraine as the Pentagon struggled to evacuate Americans and allies from Afghanistan with limited time and operational resources, sources told the Washington Free Beacon. Granholm's flight took place amid the United States' frantic effort to airlift tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan ahead of the Taliban's Aug. 31 deadline, and as the Department of Defense was forced to call in civilian airlines to bolster its strained evacuation fleet. The secretary's use of a military jet — and particularly the flight's timing —...

A total of 32,406 new Covid cases have been recorded across the UK, as well as 133 deaths within 28 days of positive test in the last 24 hour period That is a week on week rise in fatalities of 27 percent and is the eleventh day in a row of more than 30,000 infections. Last Saturday saw 31,783 cases and 104 deaths. Today saw an almost two percent rise in cases on this time last week. Yesterday, there were 38,046 new cases and 100 deaths within 28 days of a positive test. It comes after reports Covid cases had...

Real Time host Bill Maher slammed 'woke liberals' for complaining about America by teaching Americans what 'real oppression' looks like on his show on Friday night. Maher slammed Americans for constantly complaining about how America is 'so oppressed, sexist, and homophobic' by highlighting what his viewers should learn from Afghanistan. 'Watching the s**t go down in Afghanistan has reminded me of all the conversations I've ever had with an immigrant, almost all of which - if we got to really talking - included the notion of "Oh you people have no idea, all you do is b****h about and bad...

An active duty Marine Corps lieutenant colonel was relieved of his duties Friday after publicly demanding leadership take accountability for the deadly disaster in Afghanistan.Lt. Col Stuart Scheller called out Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and others for not ‘raising their hands and accepting accountability or saying, “We messed this up.”‘‘The reason people are so upset on social media right now is not because the Marine on the battlefield let someone down,’ Scheller said in a nearly five-minute video posted on Facebook and LinkedIn.People are upset because their senior leaders...

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Story at a glance: Researchers estimate that nearly one-third of the U.S. population, or 103 million Americans, got COVID-19 last year. Nearly half the residents of Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and New York City were likely infected in 2020, according to a new analysis. In a year to year comparison, starting from spring 2020 to spring 2021, the percentage of people who died from COVID-19 dropped from 0.8 to 0.3 nationwide. While official numbers report nearly 20 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 last year, according to The COVID Tracking Project, researchers estimate that nearly one-third of the U.S. population, 31...

Hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers from Central America and the Caribbean departed the southern Mexican city of Tapachula en masse on Saturday in a caravan headed to the Mexican capital, where they hoped to seek expedited asylum proceedings. The group of approximately 500 people included families with young children from Haiti, Cuba, Central America, and Colombia, according to a Reuters witness.

Pakistan based terror group Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan has maintained ties with the Taliban as about 6,000 of its terrorists are on the Afghan side of the border, Dawn reported citing a report prepared for the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The 28th report of the UN Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team says that terrorists from a variety of countries and militant groups continue to operate in Afghanistan. "The Monitoring Team continues to estimate the number of foreign terrorist fighters to be approximately between 8,000 and 10,000, mainly comprised of individuals from Central Asia, the north Caucasus region of the Russian...

The credibility of this report I find highly questionable. The operational intelligence on ISIS-K that we would have to have to be able to identify the "planner" of the bombing attack is tantamount to having someone sitting in the planning mission taking notes and then letting us know all the details. And to have the resources available to carry out the "kill mission" within 72 hours of the event itself? Really? More likely it was a drone belonging to one of our spook agencies and they waxed someone who was inconvenient to the new Taliban leadership in Afghanistan as a...

The Pentagon said Saturday morning at a briefing that as of August 14, about 117,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul, including 5,400 Americans. That number is far short of the 11,000 Americans who were estimated to still be inside Afghanistan given by White House press secretary Jen Psaki last week.

My 30 yr old nephew, my late brothers son, passed away yesterday after a very brief episode of respiratory distress. His wife explained that about 3 days ago he came down with a mild cough and began feeling poorly. He got tested and was negative for COVID-19. He had been vaccinated in February, 2021. Yesterday morning, he awoke and his wife says he felt okay so she left him in bed and went out, for whatever reason. She returned at noon to find him unresponsive. She called 911 and the paramedics were unable to revive him. They did mention that...