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.

This Is How the U.S.'s Afghanistan Exit Plan Unraveled  —  President Biden promised an orderly withdrawal.  That pledge, compounded by missed signals and miscalculations, proved impossible.  —  WASHINGTON — The nation's top national security officials assembled at the Pentagon early …

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 …

Pentagon hints at more rescues outside Kabul airport, amid new security concerns and evacuation bottleneck  —  The Pentagon on Saturday strongly hinted that U.S. troops may stage further operations outside the Kabul airport to help evacuate stranded American citizens and Afghans who aided the war effort …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

Taliban soldiers wearing U.S.-made gear mock iconic World War II image of Marines raising flag on Iwo Jima in 1945 and release propaganda footage showing them armed with American weapons while on patrol in Afghanistan  — The Taliban's Badri 313 Battalion released a collection of propaganda footage this past week

Pelosi says House working to pass infrastructure bills by Oct. 1  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Saturday that the lower chamber is “hard at work” to pass both a bipartisan infrastructure bill and a larger, Democrat-backed spending package by Oct. 1.

20 GOP states push back against Biden gun regulations  —  Attorneys general say Biden's proposed gun parts rule is unconstitutional  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for August 21  —  Attorneys general of 20 states are fighting back against an “unconstitutional” Biden administration proposal to regulate gun parts.