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For Biden, images of defeat he wanted to avoid
Aug 17, 2021 12:04Rarely in modern presidential history have words come back to bite an American commander in chief as swiftly as these from President Biden a little more than five weeks ago: “There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States in Afghanistan.”
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Tennessee border agents seized thousands of counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination cards
Aug 17, 2021 04:34So far this fiscal year, US Border Patrol personnel have discovered 121 fraudulent vaccination cards, totaling 3,017 false cards, the agency said in a Friday, August 13, statement
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After 20 years of lies and war, US retreat underway as Taliban retake control of Afghanistan
Aug 17, 2021 04:31Nearly two full decades of lies and wishful thinking from U.S. generals, politicians, liberal interventionists, and neoconservative talking heads came into full view as the Taliban in Afghanistan surrounded Kabul.
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Is US military backtracking on airstrikes transparency?
Aug 16, 2021 09:42With the United States seemingly returning to waging an active air war in Somalia, AFRICOM’s recent press releases should raise concern that it may be backtracking on providing transparent reporting of the impact of its strikes.
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US Republican leaders fiddle while COVID burns through their own supporters
Aug 16, 2021 09:37Ron DeSantis, the Governor of Florida, has outlawed mask requirements in the state and threatened to withhold the salaries of superintendents and county school board members who issue them for students. As infections soar among children, some of the state’s biggest school districts vowed to flout the governor’s order.
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Small towns grow desperate for water in California
Aug 16, 2021 09:31The drought is revealing for California that perhaps even more than rainfall it is money and infrastructure that dictate who has sufficient water during the state’s increasingly frequent dry spells.
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Leaked UN report says greenhouse gas emissions must peak within 4 years
Aug 16, 2021 09:25Rich people in every country are overwhelmingly more responsible for global heating than the poor, with SUVs and meat-eating singled out for blame, and the high-carbon basis for future economic growth is also questioned.
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After Pegasus exposé, UN rights experts urge moratorium on 'life-threatening' spyware
Aug 15, 2021 14:27Echoing calls from advocacy organizations and other surveillance critics after the Pegasus exposé broke last month, a group of United Nations human rights experts have recently called for a global moratorium on the sale and transfer of surveillance technology.
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From California to Greece to Siberia, wildfires rage worldwide—and more expected
Aug 15, 2021 14:19Officials from the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. to Southern Europe are warning of extreme heatwaves expected in the coming days, sparking fears of even more wildfires like those that have laid waste to millions of acres worldwide in recent weeks, including in Oregon, California, Greece, Turkey, and Siberia.
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More than 80 students potentially exposed to Covid after parent sent child to school following positive test
Aug 14, 2021 03:56More than 80 students in Nevada, US were potentially exposed to Covid-19 on their first day of the 2021-2022 school year after a parent reportedly sent their child to school despite both the parent and child testing positive for the disease just two days earlier, according to officials.