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Fox News national security correspondent debunks claim that Biden knew about Kabul bomber and refused to act

A Fox News reporter is pushing back against claims that President Joe Biden had refused to order a drone strike on a suicide bomber who killed 13 U.S. service members in Afghanistan. During a recent interview with the Spanish-language news

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How Elizabeth Holmes’ Abuse Allegations Could Affect Her Fraud Trial

Elizabeth Holmes, the onetime Silicon Valley superstar on trial for conspiracy and fraud, plans to argue that she was a victim of abuse. In newly unsealed court documents, Holmes’ lawyers say the CEO and founder of blood-testing startup Theranos acted

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Why We New Orleanians Keep Coming Back After Every Storm

The hardest part is deciding what to leave behind. I’ll need money and clothes, but not the gorgeous red blues guitar hanging on the wall. The guitar was a present, but it would dominate the back seat of my Volkswagen

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‘We’ve very little time left’: Ex-official on the run from Taliban after missing out on UK evacuation flight

One of the many hundreds of Afghans who was eligible for evacuation to Britain but was unable to board a flight has told of his family’s harrowing two weeks on the run from the Taliban.

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Russia Threatens Apple and Google Over Alexei Navalny App

Moscow’s state censor warned the companies of potential fines and accusations of interfering in elections if they don’t remove an app developed by supporters of the jailed opposition leader.

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Biden’s Approval Rating Hits A New Low After The Afghanistan Withdrawal – NPR

Biden’s Approval Rating Hits A New Low After The Afghanistan Withdrawal  NPR McConnell: ‘There isn’t going to be an impeachment’ of Biden  CNN Man that rescued Biden in Afghanistan now pleads for rescue from the Taliban: ‘Do not forget me and my

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Most Americans think U.S. failed in Afghanistan

The chaotic evacuation of more than 120,000 Americans, U.S. allies and Afghans from Kabul seems to have cost President Joe Biden significant public approval as the nation nears the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Jane Campion’s Gorgeous Western The Power of the Dog Is a Sharp Study of Masculinity Gone Awry

If you’re going to borrow, borrow from the best. Jane Campion begins and ends her sinewy western The Power of the Dog with a nod to John Ford’s penchant for framing figures and action through doorways and windows, less a

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Why Nun Stories Are About to Become Your Next Pop-Culture Obsession

Movie stars, courtesans, spies, nuns: the aura of feminine mystery burns strong in all of them, but nuns may be the most enigmatic of all. Unless you’re among their ranks—and maybe even then—you can never really know them. When I

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For Afghans Abroad, Sending Money Home Is Harder Than Ever

Disruptions in Afghanistan’s money-moving apparatus are choking off a key source of income for ordinary Afghans.

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