A surging crowd trampled a toddler to death near the airport, and many residents who aided America remain in hiding, fearing they will be killed by their new rulers. President Biden promised an orderly withdrawal. That pledge, compounded by missed signals and miscalculations, proved impossible. The Taliban faced the first armed challenge from former Afghan soldiers and villagers in the mountains north of Kabul. Families continued to swarm the airport in hopes of getting aboard American military planes. U.S. officials are now worried that Islamic State might launch an attack to damage the Taliban’s sense of control. The United States admitted more than 300,000 Southeast Asians after the Vietnam War. Analysts say there is little chance the country will repeat the extensive refugee resettlement effort. The director of the national museum in Kabul said Taliban guards have been posted there, but cultural preservationists still recall the destruction of prior years. “When hospitals are understaffed, people die,” one expert warned as the U.S. health systems reach a breaking point in the face of the Delta variant. The prominent anti-harassment charity, criticized for its relationship with the former New York governor, is facing an identity crisis over its ties to those in power. The authorities in Humphreys County were conducting house-to-house searches after flooding knocked out cellphone service and swamped roads. Fueled by free doughnuts, Joe Caramagna is on a mission to encourage vaccinations, raise money for charity and satisfy his sweet tooth all at the same time. A year of lost schooling will hurt children for years to come. In Arkansas, many are choosing personal liberty over vaccination — at a heavy cost. The American disaster in Afghanistan that Biden’s impatience brought about is not a disaster just for us. It's a huge boost for the Taliban too. We needed to leave Afghanistan. But not this way. For Afghans, the war isn’t over simply because the United States declared it so. The nightmare doesn’t end after the last American leaves. Covid-19 has forced us to take a close look at our lives. Many of us don't like what we see. The unimaginable destruction I witnessed in the country demands that we do better now. “I can’t think of a more masculine, tough challenge than empowering boys to understand the emotional workings of themselves and others,” one reader writes. For more than 20 years, he wrote and flipped cards for Mr. Letterman’s “Late Show.” He was also a member of the show’s troupe of quirky onscreen characters. There’s a surprisingly relevant theme in the “Nightmare on Elm Street” series. An all-star show to celebrate the city’s emergence after the hardships of the pandemic, even as the spread of the Delta variant has driven up cases again, was stopped halfway through. Melvin, a hedge fund that had bet that GameStop’s share price would fall, received a $2 billion infusion from Citadel after the stock skyrocketed. Racing for the first time since a drug test kept her out of the Tokyo Olympics, Richardson and the rest of the field were no match for Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica. She gave them a sense of identity and culture and helped legitimize American Sign Language, which she considered her native language. The company praised itself this week for being “the most transparent platform on the internet.” More Recent Articles |
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