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Romney, criticizing Trump and Biden, says the US is facing current situation in Afghanistan ‘because of terrible decisions made by two administrations’ By John L. Dorman Business Insider August 29, 2021 “Leaving Americans behind and leaving our Afghan friends behind who’ve worked with us would put upon us and will put upon us a moral stain,” the senator said. “This did not have to happen. It was preventable. We didn’t have to be in this rush-rush circumstance with terrorists breathing down our neck.” He emphasized: “But it’s really the responsibility of the prior administration and this administration that…
California looking to be the first state to pay people to stay sober By Associated Press MarketWatch August 29, 2021 Frustrated by out-of-control increases in drug overdose deaths, California’s leaders are trying something radical: They want the state to be the first to pay people to stay sober. The federal government has been doing it for years with military veterans and research shows it is one of the most effective ways to get people to stop using drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine, stimulants for which there are no pharmaceutical treatments available. It works like this: People earn small…
Legal experts welcome sanctions of pro-Trump lawyers, say more needed By John Kruzel TheHill August 29, 2021 Attorneys behind some of the dubious litigation over former President Trump’s 2020 election loss were sanctioned this week by a federal judge in a move that was welcomed by legal ethics experts. More disciplinary steps are needed to deter efforts to undermine future U.S. elections, said experts who spoke to The Hill, adding that the system for holding pro-Trump election lawyers to account was working as it should. “The wheels of ethical accountability grind slowly but deliberately,” said Bradley Moss, a…
Fact check: Georgia candidate Herschel Walker is a serial promoter of false 2020 conspiracy theories By Daniel Dale CNN August 28, 2021 Washington (CNN)Republican former football star Herschel Walker announced this week that he is running for a US Senate seat in Georgia. Some senior Senate Republicans have expressed concerns that Walker’s past words and actions threaten his chances to beat incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock. But Walker was urged to run by former President Donald Trump. In addition to a longtime personal relationship with Trump, Walker has a quality Trump prizes in 2022 candidates: a willingness to say…
Special Ops veterans’ secret mission to rescue 500 Afghans in Kabul rivaled a ‘Jason Bourne thriller,’ commander says By Joshua Zitser Business Insider August 28, 2021 An all-volunteer group of US Special Operations veterans carried out a covert nighttime mission on Wednesday. As many as 500 Afghan assets, enablers, and their families were escorted to safety, ABC News reported. The mission was modeled on Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad, a former Green Beret captain said. Continue Reading…..
It’s not just Afghanistan — Americans are losing faith in Biden on many issues By Analysis by Harry Enten CNN August 28, 2021 (CNN)President Joe Biden’s approval rating is at its lowest point in his presidency. In the average of polls, he stands at about 47%. That’s a steady decline from the beginning of this month (51%), last month (52%) and beginning of June (54%). It would be easy to assign Biden’s decline to the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, but, as the data shows, Biden has been trending downward for a while. The truth is that…
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American Forces Destroy C.I.A. Base In Controlled Detonation By Julian E. Barnes and Farnaz Fassihi New York Times August 28, 2021 A controlled detonation by American forces that was heard throughout Kabul has destroyed Eagle Base, the final C.I.A. outpost outside the Kabul airport, U.S. officials said on Friday. Blowing up the base was intended to ensure that any equipment or information left behind would not fall into the hands of the Taliban. Eagle Base, first started early in the war at a former brick factory, had been used throughout the conflict. It grew from a small outpost…
New Orleans mayor says there’s not enough time to order new mandatory evacuations ahead of Hurricane Ida By Steve Almasy and Rebekah Riess CNN August 28, 2021 (CNN)Almost 16 years to the date after Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed the city’s flood protection system, New Orleans is bracing for another potentially dangerous storm. Hurricane Ida was moving into the Gulf of Mexico on Friday as a Category 1 hurricane but forecasters say it could hit the Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm on Sunday. In New Orleans, Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced Friday evening that the National Weather Service and…
Larry Elder’s private charity was a bust, and questions swirl over where the money went Los Angeles Times August 28, 2021 Larry Elder, the GOP front-runner in California’s recall election to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom, has long trumpeted a libertarian view on the “welfare state” and its excesses, arguing private charity is a better solution than government programs. But the conservative radio host’s own nonprofit raised little cash and made no grants in the nearly two decades it was active, a Times review of its annual tax filings show. From 1998 through 2014, Larry Elder Charities Inc. raised…