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Looking to blunt bipartisan criticism of President Biden’s handling of the evacuation from Afghanistan and soothe public worries, his administration has started sharing numbers from what he has called “an incredible operation.”They’ve given the number of military flights and types of aircraft, number of flights by American allies and partners, and the total number of people evacuated since the U.S. military started operating out of the airport in Kabul Aug. 14.-snip-The prospect, however remote, that Americans might be left behind in a country run by the Taliban and where al-Qaeda and ISIS operate is a national security and political nightmare.-snip-On...

Wife's Lotto secret costs years of grief If you won a $28.5 million jackpot, would you tell your spouse? Bernice Heslop won -- and didn't tell. The legal fights continue 12 years later. BY EVAN S. BENN When Bernice Heslop opened the paper that Sunday in 1995 and saw the six Lotto numbers, her first thought must have been: ''I can't believe it. I'm RICH!'' And then, the evidence suggests, another thought formed, something like: ``Hmmmm . . . no need to tell the hubby about this.'' It was a fateful decision that has tangled three people -- Heslop, her...

LOADS OF INFO ON HILLCAP.ORG VIDEO - PETER AND HILLARY AT SPAGO VIDEO - PETER AND HILLARY AT THE GERSHMAN TEA HOME VIDEO - PETER, HILLARY, AND THE AMAZON ROSES Okay, now that I have your attention, I won’t keep you in suspense about the underwear. In 1972, a young attorney in Miami named Peter F. Paul was serving as a law clerk. As his first official act, he was directed by his firm to serve a subpoena in a civil fraud suit on one Larry King. King was also hiding out from the authorities for criminal fraud and...

Sob Stories: Read 'Em Too Close And Weep It seemed for a moment over the weekend that the blogosphere had claimed one more victory over the mainstream media, but reaction to Aaron Broussard’s return to NBC’s “Meet the Press” shows a deep split of opinion over his comments – and the role bloggers have played. You remember Broussard, the president of New Orleans’ Jefferson Parish, from his September 4th appearance on the same show. His weeping tale of the death of a colleague’s mother was among the more emotional punctuations in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and seemed to encapsulate...