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The Taliban are said to be "angry" that US forces left aircraft and other equipment in a state of disrepair before leaving the country following a 20-year military presence. Just hours after the final US troops left Kabul on Monday, August 30, the Taliban held a self-congratulatory press conference from…
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An Afghan interpreter who helped rescue Joe Biden from a snowstorm 13 years ago when the president was a senator is pleading for help in escaping the Taliban. Delivering a desperate message to the 78-year-old commander-in-chief via The Wall Street Journal, the man, known only as Mohammed, said: "Hello, Mr.…
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Vladamir Putin has said that the US achieved "zero" in Afghanistan and that its 20-year war resulted in "only tragedies." The Russian president made the comments at an educational facility in the far east of Russia on Wednesday, September 1, and said the war proved that foreign values can't be…
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A Wisconsin school district has said that families will "become spoiled" by the existence of a free school lunch program. Almost every public school in Wisconsin offers free lunches to children, but Waukesha, around 20 miles from Milwaukee, does not after school board administrators intervened, USA Today reports. While the…
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Donald Trump has lambasted his predecessor President Joe Biden for the "tremendous disrespect" he has shown towards the troops who lost their lives in Afghanistan. On Thursday, August 26, explosions and gunfire erupted outside Hamid Karzai International Airport as thousands of Afghans tried to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban seized…
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A death-row inmate who murdered a man over $1.25 has demanded that his pastor lays his hands on him during his lethal injection execution. John Henry Ramirez, 37, a former Marine, was sentenced to death in 2009 after he murdered Pablo Castro in a brutal frenzied attack in 2004, Daily…
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A right-wing extremist who was found guilty of being in possession of a bomb-making instruction manual has been spared a prison sentence in favor of a court order forcing him to read classic literature. As reported by The Guardian, Ben John, a 21-year-old former student from the UK, downloaded nearly…
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A controversial new law banning abortion after six weeks in Texas has taken effect after the Supreme Court's inaction. The Supreme Court and a federal appeals court did not act upon objections from emergency requests brought forth by abortion providers, which means that as of September 1, abortion is illegal…
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A top Afghan female police officer is now on the run in Kabul after being brutally beaten by the Taliban. Gulafroz Ebtekar, who is reportedly 34, was seen as a role model among Afghan women when she previously worked as the deputy head of criminal investigations in Afghanistan's Interior Ministry,…
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The mother of a fallen US Marine has accused President Joe Biden of rolling his eyes after she confronted him at the dignified transfer ceremony over the weekend. Shana Chappell lost her 20-year-old son, Kareem Nikoui, who was killed in the ISIS-K suicide bombing amid hurried evacuations of Americans and…
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An aggressive man was seen confronting an NBC News correspondent live on air for reasons that remain unclear. The man who accosted NBC's Shaquille Brewster has now been identified as Benjamin Eugene Dagley, according to Gulfport police. Police said in a statement that Dagley has been issued with an arrest warrant…
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President Joe Biden has described the US evacuation from Afghanistan as an "extraordinary success" despite being hit with heavy criticism over the past few days. The United States completed its evacuation of Afghanistan on August 30, and on August 31 Biden publically spoke about the withdrawal for the first time.…
