Security Alert - Embassy Kabul, Afghanistan (August 21, 2021)  —  Event: Because of potential security threats outside the gates at the Kabul airport, we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions …

Pompeo Is Lying About Afghanistan  —  He laid the groundwork for the Taliban takeover.  Now he's blaming Biden.  —  Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump's former secretary of state, blames President Joe Biden for the chaos in Afghanistan.  “We're letting the Taliban run free and wild,” he complained a few days ago on Fox News.

Clothier Patagonia boycotts ski resort after owner hosted GOP fundraiser with Marjorie Taylor Greene  —  Patagonia will no longer sell its merchandise at a popular Wyoming ski resort after one of the owners hosted a fundraiser featuring Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans supportive of former president Donald Trump.

Minnesota GOP ‘in ruins’ after shocking scandal  —  Less than a year ago, Minnesota looked every bit a swing state.  Donald Trump was pouring millions of dollars into his campaign there, after nearly flipping the state in 2016, Republicans were making inroads in the ancestrally Democratic Iron Range.

Biden Ran on Competence and Empathy.  Afghanistan Is Testing That.  —  The chaotic endgame of the American withdrawal has undercut some of the most fundamental premises of President Biden's presidency.  —  For most of the last week, in the fires of the worst foreign policy crisis …

Taliban Battles Militia in First Significant Clashes Since Takeover  —  Chaos in Kabul impedes evacuation efforts; Taliban political leaders meet on formation of government  —  Taliban fighters on Saturday battled a local militia in northern Afghanistan in some of the first significant armed clashes since …

University of Virginia disenrolls unvaccinated students ahead of fall semester  —  Officials said 49 students who have registered for fall classes are not in compliance with the school's vaccine mandate  —  Forty-nine students who registered for fall classes at the University of Virginia …

‘The Temperature in Saigon Is 105 and Rising’  —  As a Marine Corps veteran of Vietnam (1965-1966), a reporter who was among the last to be evacuated from Saigon by helicopter (1975) and a correspondent who covered the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan from the Afghan side (1980) …

Elite Taliban unit wearing US gear appears to mock iconic American WWII photo  —  Propaganda videos show Taliban fighters carrying U.S. and U.S. ally-made weapons  —  Biden refuses to identify the Taliban as an enemy  —  A Taliban fighting unit called the Badri 313 Battalion …

Mississippi officials warn against using livestock ivermectin to prevent COVID-19 after rise in poison control calls  —  “Please don't do that,” the state health officer said.  —  Mississippi's poison control center has seen an increase in calls of people taking ivermectin …

Turmoil Was Brewing at Time's Up Long Before Cuomo  —  The prominent anti-harassment charity, criticized for its relationship with the former New York governor, is facing an identity crisis over its ties to those in power.  —  Nearly four years ago, moving with resolve after the global #MeToo explosion …

American media can't quit the forever war  —  Respecting the troops means keeping them in Afghanistan forever, it seems  —  The American mainstream media is throwing a classic tantrum over President Biden's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan.  We've got the hastily-assembled pieces telling …

Prop.  22, the gig worker exemption for Uber and Lyft, is ruled unconstitutional  —  Proposition 22, which exempts gig work companies like Uber and Lyft from treating drivers as employees, is unconstitutional, a judge ruled Friday.  —  The measure, which 59% of state voters supported last fall …

Americans prepare to welcome thousands of Afghan refugees, even as political rhetoric heats up  —  As divisions emerge among some Republicans in Washington over how to handle the refugee crisis in Afghanistan, resettlement groups have been inundated with calls from ordinary Americans seeking …

For China, America's messy Afghanistan exit is more than a laughing matter  —  The catastrophic failure of American might against a ragtag opponent relying on Mao Zedong-style tactics has given Beijing a propaganda coup and Chinese media a field day But beyond the scorn lie serious questions …

EU says no recognition of Taliban, no political talks  —  The European Union has not recognised the Taliban, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Saturday, nor is it holding political talks with the militants, a week after they seized control of Afghanistan.

The Elephant in the Room Republicans carefully run for president, not knowing if the last one will, too.  —  One night in June, hundreds of Republicans gathered in suburban Des Moines, Iowa, for two traditions: raising money for their party and listening to a presidential hopeful …