In Louisiana, Rescue Workers Search for Those Stranded by Hurricane Ida

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Officials Withhold School Board Salaries Over Mask Mandates

Florida state education officials on Monday began to make good on threats to withhold funding from local school districts that defied Gov. Ron DeSantis' ban on mask mandates, despite a circuit judge last week ruling the ban unconstitutional.

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Starbucks Unionization Effort Brews At 3 Buffalo-area Cafes

Workers at three Starbucks coffee shops in the Buffalo area filed petitions Monday with the National Labor Relations Board asking for a vote on union representation, the latest development in a nationwide, pandemicera reckoning on wages and working conditions.

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Feds Charge Ex-priest With Child Sex Crimes In East Timor

A federal grand jury has indicted a defrocked American priest on charges of having sex with minors while running a childrens shelter in a remote part of East Timor.

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Man Faces 10 Years In Prison After LA Fireworks Explosion

The man who stockpiled illegal fireworks in his South Los Angeles backyard which were later improperly detonated by police, likely causing a massive blast in late June that rocked a neighborhood and injured 17 people now faces a decade in federal prison.

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As US Military Leaves Kabul, Many Americans, Afghans Remain

As the final five U.S. military transport aircraft lifted off out of Afghanistan Monday, they left behind up to 200 Americans and thousands of desperate Afghans who couldn't get out and now must rely on the Taliban to allow their departure.

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Blinken Says Under 200 Americans In Afghanistan

Washington (AP) Secretary of State Antony Blinken says fewer than 200 Americans remain in Afghanistan who want to leave and the US will continue to try to get them out. Blinken says the number of Americans left may be closer to 100. He says the US would work with Afghanistan's neighbors to secure their departure either overland or by charter flight once the Kabul airport re-opens..

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UNSC Adopts Resolution On Afghanistan, Demands Territory Not Be Used To Attack Other Countries

The United Nations Security Council, under India's Presidency, adopted a resolution demanding that the Afghanistan territory should not be used to threaten or attack any country or to shelter and train terrorists. The resolution said that it expects that the Taliban will adhere to commitments made by it regarding the safe, secure, and orderly departure from Afghanistan of Afghans and foreign nationals.

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20-year Military Presence In Afghanistan Ends: Biden

America's 20-year-old military presence in Afghanistan has ended, President Joe Biden announced, hours after the United States withdrew all of its soldiers from the war-ravaged country. Now, our 20-year military presence in Afghanistan has ended, he said, thanking armed forces for their execution of the dangerous retrograde from Afghanistan as scheduled -- in the early hours of Tuesday (August 31) with no further loss of American lives.

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Players welcome, and are boosted, by the return of crowds.

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Fans waited two years to experience the U.S. Open in person. Then waited some more.

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The Intolerable Wait for a Kids’ Vaccine

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Charges in Bali Bombing Case Are Delayed at Guantánamo

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In Louisiana, Rescue Workers Search for Those Stranded by Hurricane Ida

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Hurricane Veterans Were Stunned by Ida: ‘It’s Never Been as Bad’

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‘We Have to Try’: Lawmakers Rush to Assist in Afghanistan Evacuations.

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Florida withholds money from school districts over mask mandates.

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Scenes From Louisiana in Ida’s Wake

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Lightning Strike At Jersey Shore Kills Lifeguard, Injures 7

A young lifeguard was killed and seven other people injured when lightning struck a Jersey Shore beach Monday afternoon, authorities said.

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Never In History Has Withdrawal From War Been Handled So Badly: Trump

Never in history has a withdrawal from war been handled so badly or incompetently as by Americans from Afghanistan, former president Donald Trump has said as the United States flew its last military flight out of Kabul bringing back all of its armed forces from the country. Never in history has a withdrawal from war been handled so badly or incompetently as the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan, Trump said as the longest American war came to an end, with the Taliban regaining power in the country which they had lost after the American invasion weeks after the September 9/11 attacks.

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FBI: Texas Shooter Possibly Inspired By Foreign Terrorists

Investigators are looking into whether a Texas man was inspired by foreign terrorists when he killed a Lyft driver in a Dallas suburb and later opened fire in the police station of another suburb where officers fatally shot him.

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US Ends Its 20-year-old War In Afghanistan

The United States has announced the end of its 20-year-old war in Afghanistan as the last American military flight flew out of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul shortly before the August 31 deadline. I'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the mission to evacuate American citizens, third country nationals and vulnerable Afghans," US Central Command Commander Marine Corps General Frank McKenzie told reporters through a virtual news conference.

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UNSC Resolution Sends "Strong Signal" Of Int'l Community's Expectations From Afghanistan: Shringla

The UN Security Council's resolution on Afghanistan, adopted under India's current presidency, "unequivocally" conveys that Afghan territory should not be used to threaten or attack any nation, shelter or train terrorists, and this is of "direct importance to India," Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said, underlining that the statement sends a "strong signal" from the international community on its expectations from Kabul. "I was in particular very happy to preside over the adoption of today's important resolution on Afghanistan, which has unequivocally conveyed that Afghanistan's territory should not be used to threaten or attack any country or to shelter, train terrorists or plan or finance terrorism. It underlines terrorist individuals and entities designated by UN Security Council (resolution) 1267. This is of direct importance to India," Shringla said here on Monday in his remarks to reporters at the UN Security Council stakeout, following the UNSC meeting on Afghanistan in which the resolution was adopted.

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