USA Today,
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Donovan Slack Dennis Wagner
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Several hundred American citizens in Afghanistan still haven’t decided whether they want to leave despite an “ongoing aggressive outreach campaign” and the fast-approaching withdrawal deadline for US forces of August 31, U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said Friday. Price told reporters that since August 14 – the day before Kabul fell to the Taliban – at least 5,100 American citizens have been evacuated, including 300 in the previous 24 hours. “There are approximately 500 American citizens we are currently working with who want to leave and with whom we are communicating directly to facilitate their evacuations,” Price said. “We
KNOE-TV [Monroe, LA],
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Matthew Segura
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MONROE, La. - As of 12:15 p.m. on Friday, Ida is a hurricane. Ida’s track has moved toward the east but it is still on track to impact the ArkLaMiss this weekend and next week. It could strike as a Category 3 hurricane. Here is where things stand as of Friday afternoon. Meteorologist Sheena Martin’s ArkLaMiss Forecast: Hurricane Ida is headed into the Gulf of Mexico this weekend. It is expected to make landfall along the Louisiana coast by Sunday night. We can expect scattered showers and storms to increase across the region and stay in place until at least
Daily Beast,
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Justin Rohrlich
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William Bredderman
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8/27/2021 3:27:31 PM
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Thursday was “an excruciating day” for California carpenter Steve Nikoui. He knew his son Kareem, a young U.S. Marine, was stationed at the Kabul airport. But when he heard there had been a bombing there, he had no idea if Kareem was alive or dead. (Snip) “I haven’t gone to bed all night,” Nikoui continued. “I’m still in shock. I haven’t been able to grasp everything that’s going on.” As of right now, Nikoui’s plan is to go to Dover, Delaware, and pick up his son’s remains. Kareem “loved what he was doing, he always wanted to be a Marine,”
Fox News,
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Dom Calicchio
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8/27/2021 9:30:47 AM
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The U.S. Defense Department late Thursday revised its descriptions of the service members who were killed in Thursday’s Kabul airport attack in Afghanistan. The death toll for the U.S. military remained at 13, but Defense Department officials told Fox News that the count now stands at 10 Marines, two Army soldiers and one Navy corpsman killed in the attack. The revised information corrected a previous breakdown that said 12 Marines and one Navy corpsman had died. The attack was the deadliest day for the U.S. military in more than 10 years. In addition to those killed, at least 18 service
RedState,
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T.LaDuke
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8/26/2021 8:50:56 PM
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Joe Biden said during the 2020 Presidential campaign that he had the most experience of any person who ever ran for President because of the decades he spent in the United States Senate and eight years as Vice President for Barack Obama. (Snip) Actually, he said he was “instructed” whom to call upon. For real. Biden addressed the country and the White House Press Corps for about ten minutes regarding the bombings that took in Afghanistan early Thursday in which at least 13 United States service people lost their lives and many more were injured. I can’t really explain how
Fox News,
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Brian Flood
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Left-wing MSNBC intelligence analyst Malcolm Nance initially downplayed Thursday's suicide bombing outside of Kabul's airport, which reportedly killed at least 12 U.S. service members, telling his nearly one million Twitter followers to "deal with it" before eventually deleting the tweet after widespread backlash. While the attacks near the airport resulted in multiple casualties and forced most media members to brace for the worst, Nance didn’t seem to think the terror attack was a big deal at the time. He ultimately deleted it. "20 Years- FYI there have been terrorist suicide bombers killing civilians nearly DAILY in Afghanistan. This ain’t new.
Yahoo! News UK,
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Andy Wells
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8/26/2021 9:20:05 AM
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The former Royal Marine seeking to secure the passage of 200 dogs and cats alongside his animal shelter staff out of Afghanistan says the Taliban is blocking their evacuation. Paul Farthing, known as Pen, founded the Nowzad shelter in Kabul after serving with the British Army in Afghanistan in the mid-2000s, with the organisation rescuing dogs, cats and donkeys. Since the collapse of the Afghan government, he has campaigned to have his staff and their families as well as 140 dogs and 60 cats evacuated from the country in a privately chartered Airbus A330. On Tuesday, defence secretary Ben Wallace
Fox News,
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Kelly Laco
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8/25/2021 10:32:22 PM
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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was caught flat-footed during the daily press briefing when she was asked about a group of California students who are trapped in Afghanistan. Psaki was asked Wednesday if she knew about an LA Times report that a group of students and their parents from California's El Cajon Valley School District are currently stranded in Afghanistan. (Snip) The reporter noted that the students and their families are "apparently stranded in Afghanistan, having traveled there? I don't I don't know for certain." Psaki then replied, "I certainly don't have additional information on that. I know, as
Business Insider,
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Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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8/25/2021 10:20:30 PM
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New Zealand has extended its national lockdown by at least four days as it tries to contain the highly infectious Delta variant. The country first went into lockdown on August 17 after it detected a single COVID-19 case in Auckland, which health officials assumed was Delta. New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday that the infected individual had returned from Sydney, Australia - a COVID-19 hotspot - and arrived in Auckland, the country's largest city, on August 7. By the time it was announced on Monday that the lockdown was being extended, the outbreak was responsible for 107 cases, according to
CBS News,
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Sophie Reardon
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8/25/2021 8:46:29 PM
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The U.S. Embassy in Kabul sent out an alert Wednesday evening advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the capital city's airport. "Because of security threats outside the gates of Kabul airport, we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a U.S. government representative to do so," the security alert read. "U.S. citizens who are at the Abbey Gate, East Gate, or North Gate now should leave immediately." The embassy warned Americans to be aware of their surroundings at all times, follow the
Reuters,
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Ned Parker
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Parniyan Zemaryalai
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Michelle Nichols
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NEW YORK/LONDON - The Taliban stopped an Afghan United Nations staff member as he tried to reach Kabul airport on Sunday. They searched his vehicle and found his U.N. identification. Then they beat him. On Monday, three unknown men visited the home of another U.N. staff member who was at work at the time. They asked his son where his father was, and accused him of lying: "We know his location and what he does." The incidents are among dozens contained in an internal U.N. security document seen by Reuters that describes veiled threats, the looting of U.N. offices and
Time,
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Alana Abramson
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When Afghanistan’s now-deposed President Ashraf Ghani visited President Joe Biden in the White House in late June, he expressed some concerns about how the U.S. planned to evacuate people ahead of the troop withdrawal from his country. Ghani said he worried that a planned massive airlift of U.S. citizens and Afghan nationals who had helped the U.S. would send a disheartening signal and undermine confidence in his government’s ability to fight the Taliban, according to a senior administration official familiar with the discussions. Biden and his advisors listened, the official says, and in mid-July they decided to move ahead with
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They had been waiting 10 hours for the Taliban to let them enter the airport. With the new warnings to leave the airport, its unclear what will happen to all the animals.