Conservative talk show host Phil Valentine dies after COVID-19 battle  —  You have been added to News 2 Breaking News Newsletter  —  FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WKRN) — Conservative radio talk show host Phil Valentine has died after weeks in a Nashville area hospital battling COVID-19, according to his station, SuperTalk 99.7 WTN.

Desperation as Afghans Seek to Flee a Country Retaken by the Taliban  —  A surging crowd trampled a toddler to death near the airport, and many residents who aided America remain in hiding, fearing they will be killed by their new rulers.  —  On Saturday morning, a former interpreter …

Biden job approval falls; handling of troop removal is negative but support for withdrawal remains — CBS News poll  —  Most Americans have wanted to withdraw from Afghanistan for a while, and most still do.  —  But not like this.  —  Public reaction to what's happened there is decidedly negative …

Facebook says post that cast doubt on covid-19 vaccine was most popular on the platform from January through March  —  The social-media platform's Saturday evening acknowledgment comes after a lengthy internal debate over whether to share data.  —  Facebook said Saturday evening …

Why We Must Not Abandon the People of Afghanistan - For Their Sakes and Ours … The abandonment of Afghanistan and its people is tragic, dangerous, unnecessary, not in their interests and not in ours.  In the aftermath of the decision to return Afghanistan to the same group from which the carnage …

U.S. Considers Ordering Commercial Airlines to Help in Afghan Evacuation  —  The Biden administration is making preparations to invoke an emergency civil aviation program, while adding to the number of U.S. bases that can house Afghan evacuees.  —  WASHINGTON—The Biden administration …

On an encounter with Unvaccinated America at the hospital  —  News that the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is swamping hospitals nationwide has made me think of some of the difficult days I spent in a hospital as a University of Minnesota medical center spokesperson.

More Kids Are Hospitalized With Covid-19, and Doctors Fear It Will Get Worse  —  Delta variant's spread is a concern as schools reopen; ‘This is different than we saw before’  —  Hospitals in the South and Midwest say they are treating more children with Covid-19 than ever and are preparing for worse surges to come.

Former Pence aide says Trump and Miller stymied Afghan refugee efforts.  —  A top homeland security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence accused the Trump administration of distorting the truth about Afghan refugees, writing on Twitter that the former president and Stephen Miller …

What Biden doesn't understand  —  GETTYSBURG — On an overcast day, the national park that has preserved the history of one of the bloodiest and most significant battles of the American Civil War is filled with people from all over the country.  It is a testament to the desire everywhere …

Biden's COVID hypocrisy won't protect children  —  Desperate to talk about anything other than the disaster in Afghanistan he created, President Joe Biden emerged from hiding for 15 minutes last week to accuse Republican governors falsely of trying to ban masks in schools.

Trump Tells Alabama Rally Crowd He Recommends the Covid Vaccine, But Then Pivots Back to Talk About ‘Freedom’ After Some Booing  —  Former President Donald Trump encouraged attendees at his Cullman, AL rally to get vaccinated against Covid-19 on Saturday.  —  “I believe totally in your freedoms …

Europe left exposed as Biden walks America away from the world stage  —  London (CNN)When US President Joe Biden finally broke his silence on the chaos unfolding in Afghanistan, European allies who'd had high hopes for a reset in the transatlantic alliance were left dismayed.

Tony Blair slams Joe Biden's ‘imbecilic’ retreat from Afghanistan  —  America shuts Kabul airport as Dominic Raab is forced to turn to China and Russia for help in Afghanistan  —  Tony Blair has launched a furious attack on Joe Biden's “imbecilic” withdrawal from Afghanistan …

Why Biden betrays Black voters in rewarding Rahm Emanuel  —  For more than 30 years Rahm Emanuel has been a faithful servant of the Democratic Party.  On Friday, President Biden nominated Emanuel to be ambassador to Japan.  —  From his days as a senior advisor to President Clinton …

When foreign policy goes south: Biden, Afghanistan and the lessons of history  —  Earlier this month, I compared Joe Biden to John F. Kennedy, who salvaged his image after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 by admitting his mistake — and learning from it.

The War in Afghanistan Was a Scam  —  “War is a racket.  It always has been.  It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.... It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”  —  These words, penned …

As Biden Faces a Political Crisis, His Party Looks On in Alarm  —  Democrats fear that if the pandemic or the situation in Afghanistan continues to worsen, their party may lose the confidence of the moderate swing voters who lifted it to victory in 2020.  —  With President Biden facing …

Florida's COVID deaths climb as children lead state in positivity rate  —  The state reports 1,486 deaths and 150,118 new coronavirus infections as the pandemic starts to affect young Floridians.  —  Florida's pandemic is getting deadlier and infecting more children.