Mike Lindell Is Hiding A County Clerk Amid FBI Probe Of A Vote Data Leak: Report
As the FBI joins an investigation into claims Colorado voting machine passwords were given to a QAnon leader, the clerk is reportedly at a secret safe house.
As the FBI joins an investigation into claims Colorado voting machine passwords were given to a QAnon leader, the clerk is reportedly at a secret safe house.
Health care experts have seen that protection from the coronavirus vaccines wanes over time.
Trump referred to the terrorist group as great “warriors” and even suggested they have a right to rule the country.
“Did you see how the Taliban rolled through the streets and took back their county [sic]?” Robert O’Neill tweeted Thursday.
U.S. government flights are departing with empty seats even as desperate Afghans cluster at the airport gates. And Afghans can’t simply fly out on their own.
We speak with Washington Post investigative reporter Craig Whitlock, author of the new book “The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War,” which reveals how multiple U.S. presidents deceived the public about progress in the war despite widespread skepticism among defense and diplomatic officials about the mission. “The public narrative was that the U.S. was always making progress.
We look at how the rights of women and ethnic minorities will be impacted by the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan with two Afghan women who fled their country. Mariam Safi, who left Kabul last month and is founding director of the Organization for Policy Research and Development Studies, says the Taliban’s rapid advance across the country surprised many people who had been hoping for a negotiated end to the war.
Protests have broken out against the Taliban in Kabul and other cities across Afghanistan as the militant group, at war for 20 years, now finds itself in power. Evacuation flights are continuing from Kabul, but the Taliban is preventing many Afghans from reaching the airport, with some being shot or whipped as they attempt to flee the country amid fears that the Taliban will impose draconian restrictions on everyday life as they did during their last time in power.
As Robert Reeder awaited sentencing for a misdemeanor, online sleuths known as the “Sedition Hunters” surfaced potentially incriminating new footage.
Luckily, many Twitter users were happy to remind her that the Republicans have done the same thing she’s accusing the Democrats of doing.
“They’re setting a dangerous tone,” the president said of conservative leaders trying to limit the power of local school officials to protect students from COVID-19.
Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke amid criticism that the Biden administration didn’t prepare for a rapid Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
“He’s honestly the worst person in the world,” author Robert Swartwood remarked.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has tested positive for the coronavirus, just one day after he attended a packed indoor Republican event in Dallas, where he and most attendees were unmasked. Abbott, who said he was not showing symptoms of COVID-19, imposed a statewide ban on vaccine and mask mandates last month, though a judge later blocked the ban on mask mandates.
President Joe Biden has allocated $500 million in new funds for relocating Afghan refugees following the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. The U.S. had already vowed to help evacuate over 80,000 Afghan civilians who qualify for special immigrant visas and face possible retribution from the Taliban, such as translators and interpreters for the U.S. military or NATO, but critics say the Biden administration needs to move faster and expand refugee resettlement from the country.
“The only thing more tragic than what’s happened to the Afghan people is that in a few days America will have forgotten Afghanistan again,” says Matthew Hoh, a disabled combat veteran and former State Department official stationed in Afghanistan’s Zabul province who resigned in 2009 to protest the Obama administration’s escalation of the War in Afghanistan. He says much of the U.S.
We go to Kabul for an update as the Taliban moves to secure control of Afghanistan. The group said Tuesday former government officials will not face retribution and that the rights of women and journalists will be upheld. The Taliban’s rhetoric and the relatively restrained behavior of its fighters in Kabul are starkly different from how the group governed Afghanistan after seizing power in 1996, when it imposed draconian restrictions on everyday life.
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Trying to renegotiate the Taliban peace agreement Trump made in early 2020 would have led to an “onslaught,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said.
The Republican governor, who is vaccinated, has been criticized for banning mask mandates in the state.
Witness Jeff Buongiorno, a Republican congressional candidate in Florida, said nothing he saw could be described as an attack that would leave Lindell in pain.
The transportation secretary, who had previously spoken about his desire to become a father, said he was “overjoyed” by the news.
We get an update from Les Cayes, Haiti, not far from the epicenter of Saturday’s earthquake, as Tropical Storm Grace drenched parts of the country and the death toll has now climbed to more than 1,400, with nearly 7,000 suffering from injuries amid overwhelmed hospitals. The impact from the latest earthquake is “just as great” as the devastation from the 2010 earthquake, says Jacqueline Charles, Haiti and Caribbean correspondent for the Miami Herald.
Investigative journalist Azmat Khan, who has reported extensively in Afghanistan, says President Joe Biden has not yet addressed the chaos unleashed by the collapse of the Afghan government. In remarks on Monday, Biden “really focused on the decision to end the war” and ignored criticism about chaos at the Kabul airport and the abandonment of thousands of Afghans who helped the U.S. over the last 20 years. “None of that was really discussed in any detail,” Khan says.
Retired U.S. Army colonel and former State Department official Ann Wright, who helped reopen the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in December 2001 and later resigned in protest, says the United States should reopen its embassy now and needs to maintain a diplomatic footprint in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. “If the United States really wants to help the people of Afghanistan … we’ve got to have a presence in Afghanistan,” says Wright.
Thousands of Afghans who worked for the United States and other foreign countries remain stranded in Kabul two days after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan. Military flights out of the Kabul International Airport have resumed a day after thousands of Afghans raced to the airport with hopes of leaving the country. President Joe Biden has defended his decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan after 20 years of occupation and criticized the U.S.
We speak with healthcare activist Ady Barkan, the 37-year-old lawyer and father who, since his ALS diagnosis in 2016, has devoted his life to campaigning for universal healthcare. He has continued to speak out even after losing his voice and now uses a computerized system that converts his eye movements to speech. Barkan is the subject of “Not Going Quietly,” a new documentary following his cross-country activism.
The MyPillow guy is ticked off at his once-favorite network.
The Colorado Republican’s stunning statement about the insurgents in Afghanistan was fiercely criticized.
The CNN communications team noted that Clarissa Ward was bringing news to the world instead of “running off to Cancun in tough times.