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Biden administration leaves “hundreds” of Americans behind in Afghanistan
UPDATE: President Biden has released the following statement: I want to thank our commanders and the men and women serving under them for their execution of the dangerous retrograde from Afghanistan a...
Syndicated Author Aug 30, 2021

Cristhian Bahena Rivera gets life sentence in 2018 killing of Mollie Tibbetts
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A man was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday in the abduction and killing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, three years after she disappeared while o...
Syndicated Author Aug 30, 2021

Pentagon says ‘still time’ to get Americans out
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon says it remains prepared to airlift more Americans from the Kabul airport, even as the evacuation winds down. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters Monday "there...
Syndicated Author Aug 30, 2021

EU takes US off safe travel list; backs travel restrictions
BRUSSELS (AP) - The European Union recommended Monday that its 27 nations reinstate restrictions on tourists from the U.S. because of rising coronavirus infections there. The decision by the European ...
Syndicated Author Aug 30, 2021

Parents must pay $30,441 for getting rid of son’s porn cache
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) - A judge has ordered a western Michigan couple to pay $30,441 to their son for getting rid of his pornography collection. U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney's decision this week...
Syndicated Author Aug 27, 2021

‘We can’t do enough’: Lawmakers flooded by evacuation pleas
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tissue holders sit atop the conference table where the congressman's aides field frantic requests from constituents desperate for help in getting friends and loved ones out of Afghan...
Syndicated Author Aug 27, 2021

RFK’s son favors parole for father’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The youngest son of U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy spoke Friday in favor of paroling his father's assassin at a hearing in which prosecutors declined to attend to argue he should be kept...
Syndicated Author Aug 27, 2021

Biden promise to strike extremists faces new Afghan reality
WASHINGTON (AP) - By promising to strike the extremists who killed 13 Americans and dozens of Afghans, President Joe Biden now confronts the reality of finding and targeting them in an unstable countr...
Syndicated Author Aug 27, 2021

Maryland’s highest court reviewing Lee Malvo’s life term
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland's highest court has agreed to take up the case of Lee Boyd Malvo, who is serving life in prison for his role in the 2002 sniper spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C...
Syndicated Author Aug 27, 2021

Ida aims to hit New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina anniversary
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Tropical Storm Ida swirled toward a strike on Cuba on Friday as a rapidly intensifying storm that could speed across warm Gulf waters and slam into Louisiana as a Category 3 hurrica...
Syndicated Author Aug 27, 2021
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