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The Federal Aviation Administration has restricted airspace over Wilmington, Delaware — suggesting the Bidens could be headed home for the weekend amid the chaotic situation in Afghanistan. The temporary flight restrictions for “VIP movement” go into effect Friday evening and are set to last until around 1:30 a.m. Monday, according to an FAA alert issued Thursday. The possible trip comes after he President Joe Biden faced intense backlash for being at Camp David in Maryland last weekend as the Taliban rapidly swept through Afghanistan, taking the capital of Kabul on Sunday.

NEW DELHI – When former President Barack Obama spoke to a leadership forum in India's capital, he never once used the words "Donald Trump" and was careful to avoid any direct reference to his successor in the White House. Yet he made plenty of veiled references, many of which drew laughter from the audience. He talked about the importance of thinking before posting on social media, pointing out he had more Twitter followers than other people "who use it more often." He said if somebody told him climate change was a hoax he couldn't bridge that difference of opinion. And...

For a quarter-century, Antonin Scalia has been the reigning bully of the Supreme Court, but finally a couple of justices are willing to face him down. As it happens, the two manning up to take on Nino the Terrible are women: the court’s newest members, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. The acerbic Scalia, the court’s longest-serving justice, got his latest comeuppance Wednesday morning...Scalia, assuming powers of clairvoyance, argued that the lawmakers were secretly afraid to vote against this “perpetuation of racial entitlement.” ...The two new justices are sending a message to the court’s conservative majority: You may have the votes,...