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Aug 26 2021
News
Explosion Outside of Kabul Airport Results in Casualties, Pentagon Confirms
The Pentagon spokesperson said, “We can confirm that the explosion at the Abbey Gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of US [and] civilian casualties. We can also confirm at least one other explosion at or near the Baron Hotel, a short distance from Abbey Gate. We will continue to update.”
President Joe Biden is in the Situation Room, along with Defense
Independent Journal ReviewSep 15 2022
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Two migrant buses from Texas arrive outside VP Kamala Harris’ DC residence
Two buses carrying about 100 migrants from Texas arrived early Thursday morning outside Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington DC.
The migrants, many of them Venezuelan nationals, had been picked up in Eagle Pass, Texas, and were then shipped off to DC by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Fox News Digital reported.
Video from the scene showed a large
New York Post (News)Nov 13 2021
News
Houston Fire Department logs reveal how little control authorities had of the crowd chaos at Astroworld
Handwritten logs from the Houston Fire Department reveal how little control authorities and security personnel had of the crowd chaos throughout Travis Scott's doomed Astroworld music festival, even before the gates for the event opened.
The internal activity logs from Friday's concert at NRG Park in Houston detail the chaos before and after a crowd surge that left nine people dead and
Business InsiderNov 08 2022
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Maricopa County says 20% of polling places have equipment issues but votes are fine
About 1 in 5 polling locations in Maricopa County, Ariz., were experiencing a technical problem with their ballot tabulator machines in the first hours of Election Day — but officials say the votes will still be counted, thanks to their redundancy protocols.
"We've got about 20% of the locations out there where there's an issue with the tabulator," Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill
NPR (Online News)Sep 15 2022
News
California drought: On patrol with the celebrity 'water police'
More than 2,000 people in an exclusive Californian neighbourhood, including celebrities such as Kevin Hart and Kim Kardashian, have been put on a list of water offenders as drought ravages the state.
The BBC went on patrol with the people residents have labelled the 'water police', who are tasked with reducing water use and educating people about how to cut back.
In a blistering
BBC NewsJun 22 2022
News
Hundreds of cars parked outside Yellowstone as park reopens after historic flood
Hundreds of cars and recreational vehicles were backed up in long lines at entrances to Yellowstone National Park as it partially reopened Wednesday morning following record floods that reshaped the park's rivers and canyons, wiped out numerous roads and left some areas famous for their wildlife viewing inaccessible, possibly for months to come.
Park managers raised the gates at three
CBS News (Online)Dec 15 2022
Opinion
Musk’s Success Drives Progressives Crazy
The progressives, once called liberals, have a new target to hate. He is Elon Musk. By the way, the progressives have become very complacent about their targets for hatred. They hate Musk today, but it cannot be only because he is the richest man in the world. There is a tremendous competition to be the richest man in the world, and what I would have thought would make this competition all the
The American SpectatorAug 22 2021
News
U.S. changes evacuation plans as Islamic State threatens Americans still in Afghanistan
U.S. officials are changing their evacuation strategy in Afghanistan after learning of potential threats from the Islamic State, the Associated Press reported on Saturday.
A government official who spoke with the AP said that small groups of Americans and others will be given instructions on how to meet members of the military for evacuation.
On Saturday, the U.S. embassy warned
NewsweekSep 05 2022
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Russia's Gazprom indefinitely shuts gas flow to Europe
The Russian energy giant Gazprom scrapped its Saturday deadline and indefinitely extended its gas cuts to Europe.
The state owned energy company cited urgent maintenance was behind its reasoning Friday and did not provide a date when it intends to reopen the Nord Stream 1 Pipeline, which distributes natural gas to Europe through Germany.
The announcement came just hours before
Fox BusinessNov 21 2022
Analysis
How Iran's security forces use rape to quell protests
A trickle of people passes through a normally busy border crossing in the mountains of northern Iraq. “It’s a big prison over there,” one Iranian woman says, gesturing to the hulking gate that marks the border with Iran’s Islamic Republic, which has been convulsed by protest for over two months.
A portrait of the founder of Iran’s clerical regime, Ruhollah Khomeini, looms against a
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