Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Hours after President Joe Biden issued a dire warning that it was “highly likely” the Kabul airport could see another attack in the 24 to 36 hours leading up to the final U.S. troop withdrawal, Secretary of State Read More
Zenobillis/iStock (NEW ORLEANS) — Ida, which became a Category 1 hurricane Friday afternoon, is forecast to strengthen into a Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph winds before landfall in Louisiana late Sunday. The latest forecast track has Ida coming ashore in Read More
BendFilm announced today the 75 short films selected to screen during the 18th annual BendFilm Festival running October 7 – 17, 2021. New this year, BendFilm Festival is now recognized by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® as one of 64 film festivals Read More
grynold/iStock (WASHINGTON) — In recent weeks, we have watched harrowing images of desperate Afghan men, women and children attempt to escape Taliban rule. For 20 years, the United States made promises: If you help us defeat al-Qaida and the Taliban, then we will Read More
Khodaiberdi Sadat/Anadolu Agency/ Getty Images (KABUL, Afghanistan) — When the U.S. Embassy in Kabul closed, the last individuals to secure it were not civilians or even U.S. military, but the quiet and dynamic special agents of the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) Read More
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Friday’s sports events: INTERLEAGUE Minnesota 2 Milwaukee 0 Chicago White Sox 17 Chicago Cubs 13 San Diego 5 L.A. Angels 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE Tampa Read More
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection said a “very small number” of Afghan evacuees have been “flagged for concern” during their vetting and screening at military bases around the Read More
Aleksandra Tokarz/iStock (KABUL, Afghanistan) — Sarina Faizy, 23, just graduated from William & Mary with a master’s in international law, and she said she’d hoped to celebrate with her family — instead she’s struggling to stay in contact Read More
Tomas Ragina/iStock (NEW YORK) — A new, peer reviewed study estimates that the delta variant of COVID-19 doubles the risk of being hospitalized compared to the prior alpha variant among unvaccinated people. The delta variant is the most highly transmissible strain Read More
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (KABUL, Afghanistan) — Thirteen American troops were among the nearly 200 people killed in an attack at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan on Thursday. A detonation set off by an ISIS-K suicide bomber near the airport’s Abbey Gate Read More
