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As the situation in Afghanistan becomes only more grim, the New York Times is properly condemning the Biden Administration’s lack of foresight and criticizing Biden’s false statements regarding the US evacuation. Saturday’s front page featured a “news analysis” from Peter Baker, which suggested Biden’s botching of the Afghanistan pullout might damage his electoral selling points:
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Thousands of Australian anti-lockdown protesters clashed with police in the streets of Melbourne on Saturday. At times, the demonstrations against lockdowns became violent with protesters attacking police and law enforcement spraying rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd. Thursday marked the 200th day of lockdowns in Melbourne. On Friday, the state of Victoria announced
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The Taliban appear to be mocking the United States in a new propaganda photo. The image, which some have called “humiliating,” shows an elite Taliban fighting unit donned in U.S. military gear and hoisting up the flag of the fundamentalist Islamic group in nearly the exact same pose that U.S. Marines hoisted up the American
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On Saturday’s installment of Velshi, guest host Mehdi Hasan claimed that the 9/11 terrorist attacks produced a xenophobic War on Terror that is responsible for the political raise of Donald Trump. In order to make this inflammatory stretch, Hasan repeated several far-left claims that simply aren’t true. Hasan kicked off the segment claiming, “The 20th anniversary of
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Potential threats from Islamic State terrorists are reportedly complicating United States military evacuation operations in Afghanistan. What is the background? The startling new development comes after the U.S. Embassy in Kabul told Americans wishing to leave the country that traveling to the airport in Kabul, where all evacuation operations are taking place, was no longer
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A Colorado black father delivered a stirring speech denouncing critical race theory during a school board meeting last week, which garnered a standing ovation from other parents. After the rousing monologue, the board members voted to ban critical race theory in the school district. Several concerned parents gave their testimony about implementing critical race theory
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On Saturday afternoon, Christina Pushaw is back on Twitter after a twelve-hour suspension — and she’s ready to set the record straight about Big Tech. Governor DeSantis’s press secretary was suspended from Twitter Friday night after the Associated Press sent DeSantis a letter asking him to fire her. The Associated Press complained after Pushaw pushed
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s pro-face mask tirade in which the former Republican governor declared “screw your freedom” has lost a corporate sponsor because of his rant. What did Schwarzenegger say? During an interview earlier this month, Schwarzenegger advocated for COVID-19 precautions and mocked Americans opposed to wearing face masks. “I think people should know, there is a
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Angelina Jolie started an Instagram account on Friday, and used the first post on her new platform to smash how poorly the Biden administration handled the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. In her first post on the social media platform, the Hollywood actress declared, “It is sickening to watch Afghans being displaced yet again out of
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Former Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill, who has been credited as the person who killed Osama Bin Laden in a 2011 raid, blasted how President Joe Biden is handling the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and called for him to be impeached. O’Neill believes the withdrawal has been such a disaster that he demanded the resignation of
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The White House is being accused of removing from a readout of a call between French President Emmanuel Macron and President Joe Biden an impassioned plea from Macron calling on Biden to share in the “moral responsibility” of rescuing Afghan allies. What are the details? The French government on Friday published a readout of the
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CNN reporter Clarissa Ward, the network’s chief foreign correspondent, chose the consummate word to describe President Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal as she waited to depart Kabul on Friday. What did Ward say? While waiting inside the Kabul airport compound for her flight to Qatar, Ward — who had become the face of on-the-ground reporting
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The United States Embassy in Kabul released an updated security alert Saturday that directly contradicts what President Joe Biden claimed about security at the Hamid Karzai International Airport, the location of American and allied evacuations from Afghanistan. What did Biden claim? During a press conference on Friday, Biden claimed the U.S. government has received “no
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We noted CNN reporter Clarissa Ward’s strange statement on Monday about the Taliban: “They’re chanting death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time.” Washington Times columnist Tim Young mocked this on Twitter: The Taliban are sooo “friendly” that the female CNN reporter went from dressing like a free woman to covered head to
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Actress Melissa Joan Hart said that the lack of a school mask mandate at her children’s schools likely led to her family contracting COVID-19. Hart made the comments in a video posted Wednesday to her 1.6 million followers on Instagram. “Hi, I never do videos but I thought that this was really important,” said the
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New York Times coronavirus reporter Apoorva Mandavilli offered yet another dubious piece of virus-related advice, suggesting in Thursday’s edition that wearing masks and avoiding company for the foreseeable future is somehow preferable to receiving a “booster shot” of a coronavirus vaccine: “Vaccines’ protection against virus infection is waning, C.D.C. studies suggest.”   Mandavilli found sources
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Almost 170 million Americans are now fully vaccinated against coronavirus, with about 200 million receiving at least one shot. As with any other vaccine, so-called “breakthrough cases” will occur, even as vaccines work as intended. Asymptomatic infections among non-vaccinated people also transpire, but evidence shows that illnesses tend to be less severe among those who
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A number of Twitter users pounced on CBS News in response to a tweet linking to an article titled, “How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban.” Much attention has recently been focused on Afghanistan where the Taliban has seized control. The U.S. is currently scrambling to evacuate its citizens and others, and the Biden administration
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On Friday night, Twitter decided that, without warning, it would temporarily suspend Christina Pushaw, the press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. According to a screenshot from Pushaw, the ban will last 12 hours. Pushaw was suspended from the platform for twelve hours. Conservatives were quick to note the hypocrisy, stating that Twitter has not told Pushaw why she
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Mississippi public health officials warned the public against ingesting ivermectin, a drug meant for horses, to combat COVID-19 after a surge in poisoning calls involving the drug, The Hill reported. A letter from State Epidemiologist Paul Byers said that more than 70% of recent calls to the Mississippi Poison Control Center were related to the
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