Amazon strikes a deal with Affirm, the buy-now pay-later provider.

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Woman Sentenced to 7 Days in Jail for Walking in Yellowstone’s Thermal Area

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Sex Assault Survivor To NJ Candidate: Take Down Video Of Me

A former government official who says she is a sexual assault survivor is demanding that the New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate stop using her story as a political prop in a campaign video that bashes Gov. Phil Murphy.

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US Evacuates Over 109K People From Afghanistan Since Aug 14, Says White House

The US has evacuated and facilitated the shifting of approximately 109,200 people from the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul since August 14, the White House has said. It also said that the US evacuated approximately 4,200 people in 12 hours on Friday, following the deadly suicide attack near the Kabul airport on Thursday.

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Any Sustainable Solution In Afghanistan Must Include Pakistan: US Senator

Any sustainable solution in Afghanistan must include Pakistan, a senior Republican Senator has said. We all must remember (that) Pakistan is a nuclear-armed nation, and there is a Pakistan version of the Taliban who wishes to topple the Pakistani government and military, Senator Lindsay Graham tweeted, in an apparent reference to Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

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Aaj Ka Panchang, August 28, 2021: Check Out Tithi, Shubh Muhurat, Rahu Kaal and Other Details on Balaram Jayanti

Aaj Ka Panchang, August 28, 2021: Ahead of Krishna Janmashtami, the Shashthi Tithi is observed as Balaram Jayanti.

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Study Links Delta With More Hospitalisations

London (AP) A new British study suggests people who get COVID-19 from the extra-contagious delta variant are about twice as likely to be hospitalised than those who caught an earlier version of the coronavirus. The delta variant spreads much more easily than the alpha variant that previously was widespread in much of the world. But whether it also causes more severe disease is unclear, something hard to tease out - in part because delta took off just as many countries relaxed their pandemic restrictions even as large swaths of the population remained unvaccinated..

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COVID-19 'Not Developed' As Biological Weapon, Says US Intelligence Community

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was "not developed" as a biological weapon, the US intelligence community has concluded in a report, with President Joe Biden reiterating the allegation that China continues to reject calls for transparency and withhold information about the origins of the virus. The Director of National Intelligence in a report, prepared at the direction of the president, on Friday said SARS-CoV-2 probably emerged and infected humans through an initial small-scale exposure that occurred no later than November 2019 with the first known cluster of COVID-19 cases arising in Wuhan, China in December 2019.

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Biden suggests booster shots could be given sooner than eight months after vaccination.

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A heavily fortified C.I.A. base in Kabul has been destroyed.

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David Grossman’s New Novel Is a Multigenerational Saga of Love and Loss

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Stephen B. Oates, Civil War Historian, Dies at 85

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U.S. Open Tightens Protocols, Fans Must Provide Proof of Covid Vaccination

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Biden Floats Faster Access to Booster Shots Amid Spread of Variant

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‘We’re nearing the end.’ The British will soon stop evacuating Afghan allies from Kabul.

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After Two Decades of Fighting Taliban, U.S. Is Uneasy Partners With Them

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As U.S. Troops Searched Afghans, a Bomber in the Crowd Moved In

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Austin Police Officer Is Charged With Murder in a Second On-Duty Killing

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U.N. Chief Says Social Fabric Of Ethiopia Being Torn Apart

U.N. SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council on Thursday that a conflict in Ethiopia has spread beyond the northern Tigray region and "a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes."

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Up To 48 Missing After Boat Capsizes Off Coast Of Senegal, Says Army

Up to 48 people were missing on Friday after a boat carrying around 60 people capsized off the coast of northern Senegal, the Senegalese army said in a statement.

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Peruvian Bus Carrying Mining Workers Plunges To Abyss, Killing 15 -local Media

A bus in the Peruvian Andes reportedly transporting workers at MMG Ltd's Las Bambas copper mine plunged off a cliff on Friday, killing at least 15 injuring 3, local media reported, citing police sources.

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UK Mulls Easing Post-Brexit Immigration Rules To End Truck Driver Shortage -The Times

British ministers will consider easing postBrexit immigration rules to help end a shortage of truck drivers amid mounting pressure from supermarket chains, The Times newspaper reported.

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Embed-Map-Virus Outbreak-Hospital ICUs, ADVISORY

VIRUS OUTBREAK-HOSPITAL ICUS Map. Hospitals across the U.S. are reporting increases in ICU beds in use as the coronavirus' Delta variant has become the dominant strain sweeping across the U.S. The following digital embed shows state by state, the percentage of ICU beds in use at the state level. This map will update daily. Source: HHS.

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