U.S. officials racing to evacuate Afghan allies have limited time before another threat comes into play: vast digital data stores that will expose Afghans’ ties to American operations on a massive scale once in Taliban hands. Telecom companies store reams of records on who Afghan users have called and where they’ve been. Government databases include records … Continued
At first blush, it may not seem that the Democrats’ $4.5 trillion infrastructure and spending plans and President Joe Biden’s bungled exit from Afghanistan have a nexus. But they do in China’s rare metals monopoly. Beijing already dominates the rare metals market needed for electronics, electric car batteries and computers, a reality made more painfully … Continued
I understand that the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division has told the commander of the British special forces at the Kabul airport to cease operations beyond the airport perimeter. Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue has told his British Army counterpart, a high-ranking field-grade officer of the British army’s 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, that … Continued
The Pentagon activated the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) early Sunday to aid in the Afghanistan evacuation efforts. The announcement means the Pentagon is ordering six commercial airlines – American Airlines, Atlas Air, Delta Airlines, Omni Air, Hawaiian Airlines and United Airlines – to help with moving people out of Afghanistan. The commercial airlines will … Continued
President Biden on Sunday left open the possibility of extending U.S. troop deployments in Afghanistan beyond an Aug. 31 deadline if necessary to facilitate the evacuation of American personnel and Afghan allies. Biden previously said troops would remain in Afghanistan until all Americans were out of the country, though his comments Sunday were the clearest … Continued
Black wealth rose significantly over the last ten years, while neighborhood segregation declined, data shows. Minorities have increased their mobility and financial standing over the last decade, according to federal data that challenges some of the narratives of the so-called Critical Race Theory spreading through schools and media. While the Federal Reserve reports that “the typical white … Continued
A large majority of voters support laws requiring photo identification, according to a new poll from an election integrity group conducted as Democrats push for sweeping elections reforms. A poll released this week from the Honest Elections Project found 81 percent of voters surveyed support requiring every voter to show a photo ID to cast … Continued
Judging from the flurry of headlines about racial discrimination and teaching history in schools, you could easily forget that school was out for the summer. But some students have already returned, and the rest will be back at their desks before you know it. So will the grownups settle the issue before all of them are … Continued
COVID-19 has now infected more than 35 million Americans and claimed the lives of more than 600,000.1 Johns Hopkins University, “COVID-19 Map,” Coronavirus Resource Center, https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html (accessed March 5, 2021). After the introduction of the vaccines, COVID-19 cases and deaths declined significantly, although there has been a recent uptick in cases due to the Delta variant. The … Continued
Sen. Joni Ernst, Iowa Republican, called Sunday for “flexing our military muscles” to bring Americans home from Afghanistan as pressure built for the Biden administration to get tougher on evacuating the thousands left stranded. “We should be doing everything possible to get Americans safely to the airport for evacuation,” said Ms. Ernst on ABC’s “This Week.” “We are the … Continued
The chaos in Afghanistan may have changed global headlines, but it has done little to shake Democrats from their course at home. House members return to Capitol Hill on Monday to begin advancing the party’s $3.5 trillion makeover of the American social safety net. Debates about welcoming tens of thousands of Afghan migrants did nothing to derail Democrats’ hopes … Continued
The State Department announced on Thursday that evacuees are not required to get a COVID-19 test to travel from Afghanistan out of the country. “A blanket humanitarian waiver has been implemented for COVID testing for all persons the U.S. government is relocating from Afghanistan,” a spokesperson for the department said. As Afghanistan had been a hotspot for the CCP (Chinese … Continued
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