Confidential State Department Cable in July Warned of Afghanistan's Collapse  —  About two dozen State Department officials in Kabul sent an internal memo to Secretary of State Antony Blinken  —  WASHINGTON — About two dozen State Department officials serving at the embassy in Kabul sent …

Biden's Afghanistan policy counts on issue fading in importance for war-weary voters  —  President Joe Biden is brushing off criticism of his administration's chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal because he and his aides believe the political fallout at home will be limited, according to White House allies and administration officials.

Relative of DW journalist killed by the Taliban  —  Journalists and their families are in grave danger in Afghanistan.  The Taliban have no compunction about carrying out targeted killings as the case of a DW journalist shows.  —  Taliban fighters hunting a DW journalist have shot dead …

Elder's ex-fiancee said he brandished a gun at her  —  PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Alexandra Datig, the former fiancee and longtime radio producer for California GOP gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder, says she broke off an 18-month engagement with the conservative talk show host in 2015 …

The Quiet Rage of the Responsible  —  Let's talk for a minute about Lollapalooza.  After canceling in-person events last year, a few weeks ago Chicago once again hosted the long-running music festival, drawing more than 385,000 people.  Many feared that the huge, raucous crowds could produce a coronavirus superspreader event.

Oklahoma mom of 11 rescues members of Afghan all-girls robotics team  —  An Oklahoma mother of 11 flew to Afghanistan earlier this month to rescue 10 members of the country's all-girls robotics team, and hoping to save more as the Taliban takes power in Kabul.

Afghanistan: Taliban carrying out door-to door manhunt, report says  —  The Taliban have stepped up their search for people who worked for Nato forces or the previous Afghan government, a UN document has warned.  —  It said the militants have been going door-to-door to find targets and threatening their family members.

If North Texas runs out of ICU hospital beds, doctors can consider a patient's vaccination status  —  This would be a big change in health care, but doctors have yet to announce it.  So The Watchdog does it for them.  —  North Texas doctors have quietly developed a plan that seeks to prepare …

Fox News' Greg Gutfeld is crowned new king of late night television after he scores 220K MORE viewers than Colbert's Late Show on CBS  — Comedian Greg Gutfeld's show pulled in the most viewers during Tuesday's late night time slot with about 2.12 million  — Gutfeld! debuted in April …

EXCLUSIVE FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated-sources  —  The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.

Liberal Democracy Is Worth a Fight  —  Of all the empty, pointless statements that are periodically repeated by Western politicians, none is more empty and pointless than this one: “There can be no military solution to this conflict.”  That was what Ban Ki-moon, then the UN secretary-general …

Appeals court orders Arizona Senate audit records released  —  PHOENIX (AP) — An appeals court on Thursday rejected an effort by the Arizona Senate to keep secret records of its ongoing review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County that are in the possession of the contractors conducting the recount.

Ron DeSantis has ‘made a monumental mess of masking in public schools’ |  Column  —  Several school districts are doing the right thing despite the governor's threats, writes columnist Mac Stipanovich.  —  Ron DeSantis is a governor uninterested in actually governing …

Taliban responsible for brutal massacre of Hazara men - new investigation  —  Taliban fighters massacred nine ethnic Hazara men after taking control of Afghanistan's Ghazni province last month, Amnesty International said today.  —  On-the-ground researchers spoke to eyewitnesses …

Rain fell at the normally snowy summit of Greenland for the first time on record  —  An example of meltwater flowing across the Greenland ice sheet in 2007.  As the ice melts, the meltwater pools into rivers of runoff that flow toward lower elevations and into the ocean, resulting in the ice sheet losing mass.

Democrats increasingly embrace censorship from the government and Big Tech: Poll  —  The pandemic, and the lies and incorrect information that have come from health officials and politicians, have done little to convince Democrats that censorship is a terrible idea.  In fact, more Democrats support censorship now than in 2018.

Biden To Automatically Cancel $5.8 Billion In Student Loans For Over 300,000 Disabled Borrowers  —  The Biden administration announced on Thursday that it will be automatically wiping out the federal student loan debt for 323,000 borrowers.  —  The administration will be cancelling borrowers …