During a hearing with the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, the Pentagon admitted that there were still nearly 450 Americans stranded in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. “Following the US’ frenzied withdrawal from Kabul, the State Department said in late September that there were less than 100 Americans still in Afghanistan who were looking to flee,” the Daily Mail
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Chinese propagandist Hu Xijin, editor of China’s state-run Global Times, claimed that China would take military action if the United States allowed Taiwan to change the name of its representative office in the U.S.
On Monday, a group of Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, demanding he “fully and unequivocally withdraw” his memorandum to the FBI that “target[ed] concerned parents
On Monday, Larry Summers, a former economic adviser to President Barack Obama, responded to comments from Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in which she dismissed Summers’ concerns about the inflation crisis. CNN’s
Businesses are reportedly “pleading” with the Biden administration to delay its plan for COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employees of large businesses, saying the mandates could cause a “mass exodus” of employees. “Worried
