Twitter Hosts Taliban, Other Sites Closed
While it has banned former U.S. President Donald J. Trump from its service, the social networking site Twitter continues to host accounts of high-profile officials linked to the Islamist Taliban group.
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‘Worst nightmare’: Trump hits Biden’s ‘botched exit in Afghanistan’ in first rally since fall of Kabul
Former President Donald Trump called President Joe Biden’s “botched exit in Afghanistan” the “worst nightmare” imaginable during his first public rally since the fall of Kabul to the Taliban.
Supreme Court puts brief hold on lower court order requiring restart of ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy
Justice Samuel Alito late Friday night issued a brief stay on a recent federal judge’s ruling that would reinstate a Trump administration policy requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are processed.
FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated
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.
Afghanistan Moving To Civil War As Vice President Declares Himself New Leader (Video)
Afghanistan was moving closer to civil war Wednesday after its former First Vice President Amrullah Saleh declared himself the country’s new leader and, backed by a resistance movement, vowed not to surrender to the ruling Islamist Taliban group.
Iran Moving Towards Nuclear Weapons, Watchdog Suggests
Iran is rapidly moving towards nuclear arms capabilities, with a report suggesting that it accelerated its enrichment of uranium to near weapons-grade.
US President Biden Defends Leaving Afghanistan
U.S. President Joe Biden said Monday that the takeover of Afghanistan by the Islamist Taliban group went more quickly than anticipated. Still, he defended his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from the war-torn country. “American troops should not die in a war that Afghans are not willing to fight for themselves,” he told the nation in televised remarks from the White House.
U.S. President Joe Biden To Address Nation Over Afghanistan
U.S. President Joe Biden was to return to the White House on Monday to deliver long-delayed remarks on Afghanistan, the White House said.
Judge orders DHS to restart Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy
A federal judge ordered Homeland Security to restart President Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, ruling Friday that the Biden administration cut too many corners when it scrapped the get-tough approach to illegal border crossers.
Indiana clinics must report complications from abortions says Court of Appeals
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on August 2 upheld an Indiana law requiring abortion providers to report complications arising from abortions carried out in their facilities, the Christian Post (CP) reports. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the case brought by Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky which argued Indiana’s Complications Statute of Senate Enrolled Act No. 340 was “unconstitutionally vague.”
Hungary’s Orbán Condemns President Biden Over Totalitarian Remarks
Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has condemned U.S. President Joe Biden for calling him an “authoritarian tug.”
Federal appeals court upholds Tennessee law requiring 48-hour wait before abortions
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Tennessee’s 48-hour waiting period before a woman can receive an abortion is lawful and doesn’t violate her constitutional rights.
Election cheating surges to top US issue, most want photo ID
The battles over the 2020 presidential election and subsequent fight between Democrats and Republicans on reforming the system have pushed the issue to the top of those Americans are now worried about.
Rouhani confirms Israeli heist of Iran’s nuclear archive
On one of his final days in office, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday acknowledged an Israeli operation carried out by Mossad agents who broke into a secret warehouse outside Tehran and retrieved a huge trove of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear files.
Biden Names First Muslim Religious Freedom Ambassador
The White House announced Friday a slate of nominations and appointments for top religious affairs roles, including the first Muslim American nominated to be the US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom (IRF).
Justice Dept Says IRS Must Give Trump’s Tax Returns to Congress
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday ordered the Internal Revenue Service to hand over former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to a House of Representatives committee, saying the panel has offered “sufficient reasons” for requesting the material.
All nine members of the Jan. 6 select committee voted to impeach Trump
Every member of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, which many conservatives view as a partisan game to blame Republicans and conservatives, had voted to impeach Trump.
France Warned The US In 2015 About The Wuhan Lab It Helped Build, Former COVID-19 Investigator Claims
The U.S. federal government should have stopped funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 when China reduced its cooperation with the French in building and operating the lab, according to the leader of an investigation into COVID-19’s origins by the State Department under the Trump administration.
House Investigation of January 6th to Begin as Pelosi Denies GOP Members and Picks Anti-Trump Allies
A select House Committee looking into the origins of the January 6th Capitol assault gets underway tomorrow, but before committee members ask any questions, their results are mired in controversy.
DOJ agrees that Durham’s report should be released to the public when complete
The Department of Justice under President Biden agrees with former Attorney General William Barr’s October 2020 special counsel order that John Durham’s report on the Trump-Russia investigators should be made public upon completion.