U.S. officials provided Taliban with names of Americans, Afghan allies to evacuate  —  U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies to grant entry into the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city's airport …

Officer who shot Ashli Babbitt during Capitol riot breaks silence: ‘I saved countless lives’  —  In the chaotic minutes before he shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, Lt. Michael Byrd focused his attention on the glass doors leading into the lobby of the U.S. House of Representatives chamber.

Biden must accept accountability for his Afghanistan debacle  —  At least 12 U.S. service members died from two attacks outside the Kabul airport Thursday.  But the number of dead and the number of attacks keep rising.  —  What had been a stain on President Joe Biden's administration is now a historic catastrophe.

Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Eviction Moratorium  —  The Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration's eviction moratorium in a 6-3 decision on Thursday.  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the moratorium earlier this month to cover counties with “high” or …

Virginia GOP sues to remove McAuliffe from ballot; Democrat's campaign calls lawsuit ‘desperate’  —  The Republican Party of Virginia on Thursday asked a court to remove Democrat Terry McAuliffe from the November ballot, arguing that his elections paperwork did not meet the state's guidelines because it was missing a signature.

Clamoring for ivermectin, some turn to a pro-Trump telemedicine website  —  When users visit the telemedicine website SpeakWithAnMD.com, they are immediately hit with a warning: “Due to overwhelming demand, we are experiencing longer than usual wait times.”  —  The demand is for ivermectin …

Trump Repeatedly Refers to ‘ISIS-X’ Instead of ISIS-K, Corrects Himself, Then Says 'They'll Have ISIS-X Pretty Soon'  —  During a lengthy interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday night, former President Donald Trump repeatedly referred to the terrorist group ISIS-K as “ISIS-X.”

Living with the coronavirus will likely never be risk-free  —  Vaccinated Americans are facing a disheartening reality: Even after getting the shot, they'll have to live with some level of risk from the coronavirus for the foreseeable future.  —  State of play: A glut of data released …

Biden's first 200 days  —  Joe Biden, like most presidents, made much of supposed achievements in his first 100 days.  Remember how, arriving in office, he promised 100 million COVID vaccine doses in that period.  It was a soft target, for, as some of us pointed out, the vaccination pace …

Florida COVID update: case, death, vaccine count  —  Florida on Thursday reported 21,765 more COVID-19 cases and 901 deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.  —  All but two of the newly reported deaths occurred after July 25 …

Time's Up leader Tina Tchen resigns in fallout from Andrew Cuomo sexual harassment scandal  —  Tina Tchen, the president and CEO of Time's Up, told her staff Thursday that she will resign, less than a day after she admitted that her organization's private consultations with former …

Lawyer for Afghan girls' robotics team tells Oklahoma woman to stop taking credit for rescue  —  A lawyer for the famed all-girls Afghan robotics team has sent a cease-and-desist letter to an Oklahoma woman, telling her to stop taking credit for the girls' escape from Kabul and warning …

How close is the California recall?  Here's what the poll experts say  —  Earlier this month, results from a SurveyUSA poll showed that 51% of likely voters in California's upcoming recall election would vote to remove Gov. Gavin Newsom from office.  It was the first poll to show …

Why Are So Many Marines Neo-Nazis?  —  Last Friday, the Department of Justice released one of the latest in an endless string of indictments involving white men subscribing to the tenets of the far right and planning acts of terror in the U.S. The document also had an all-too-familiar detail …

California Could Throw Away What It's Won  —  If you live in California and haven't yet voted or made plans to vote on the proposed recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom, please wake up.  This is a situation in which apathy could have awesome consequences: California, which isn't as liberal a state …

A Stranded Interpreter, and the Soldiers Who Would Not Let Go  —  Many Afghans who helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan are now in danger.  One spoke to us about his battle to get his family out alive as he hid in Kabul.  —  The Americans called him “Mikey,” and as an interpreter …

It wasn't hubris that drove America into Afghanistan.  It was fear.  —  Americans long remembered where they were when they learned about the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915.  The shock and horror of that event, in which a German submarine deliberately sank a British ocean liner with nearly 2,000 men …