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Top U.S. military leaders defended the withdrawal from Afghanistan in a Congressional hearing Tuesday morning. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, the nation's top military officer, is appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday and the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday, along with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie.

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases over whether the Justice Department or abortion providers can challenge the Texas Heartbeat Act, which bans abortion after roughly six weeks into a pregnancy.

In both cases, the issue is not the right to an abortion, but whether or not the Texas law can be challenged in court.  The Supreme Court will deliberate on the

Chuck Todd, host of NBC's "Meet the Press", criticized Attorney General William Barr's decision Sunday to drop charges against former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn. Todd played a clip of a CBS interview in which Barr was asked about the decision, and followed the clip by criticizing Barr's statements. However, it was later revealed that the audio of Barr had been shortened,

On Thursday evening, a federal fugitive task force shot Michael Reinoehl when he allegedly tried to elude arrest. Reinoehl, a self-described anti-fascist, was charged with second-degree murder with a weapon and unlawful use of a weapon in the Aug. 29 shooting of Aaron “Jay” Danielson. Official accounts of Reinoehl's death from law enforcement differ slightly; the Thurston County Sheriff’s