President Joe Biden is confronting an extraordinary confluence of intensifying crises that are pushing a White House already mired in extreme challenges to the limit.
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The last US military planes have left Afghanistan marking the end of the United States’ longest war
The last US military planes left Afghanistan, Commander of US Central Command, Gen. Frank McKenzie announced Monday at the Pentagon. The US departure marks the end of a fraught, chaotic and bloody exit from the United States’ longest war.
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Analysis: How the US got right back where it started in Afghanistan
Many Americans are still shocked at the violent and abrupt endgame to America’s longest war. The messy end to two decades of the US mission in Afghanistan raises so many questions. Why didn’t the US intelligence community foresee the Taliban’s ability to seize control of the country so quickly? How could the Biden administration know there could be terror attacks targeting US service members at the Kabul airport but be unable to stop them?
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Fact check: Conservative tweeters falsely claim Biden didn’t show up at Dover to honor troops’ remains
On Saturday night, an entirely false claim about President Joe Biden went viral among conservatives on Twitter.
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US carries out Kabul airstrike targeting suspected ISIS-K bomber posing ‘imminent’ threat to airport
The United States carried out a defensive airstrike in the Afghan capital, Kabul, targeting a suspected ISIS-K suicide bomber who posed an “imminent” threat to the airport, US Central Command said Sunday.
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Romney: US potentially leaving Americans and Afghan allies in Afghanistan after withdrawal ‘a moral stain’
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney said Sunday that if American citizens and Afghan allies are left in Afghanistan following the planned withdrawal of US troops there this week that would represent “a moral stain” on the US.
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Biden administration pledges ‘safe passage’ for Americans in Afghanistan after withdrawal deadline
The Biden administration is committed to a “safe passage” of Americans and Afghans who helped the US government after the withdrawal deadline from Afghanistan, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday.
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‘A direct punch in the gut’: Inside Biden’s biggest crisis as he races to withdraw from Afghanistan
When Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley informed President Joe Biden just past 9:15 a.m. on Thursday that terrorists had detonated a suicide bomb at the Kabul Airport gates, the President was angry and dismayed — but not surprised.
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Biden attends dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base for those killed in Afghanistan
President Joe Biden will attend the dignified transfer of those American service members killed in Thursday’s attack in Afghanistan, the White House announced Sunday. Biden will take Air Force One to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to attend the dignified transfer.
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Republican governors target local school systems over mask mandates
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is in a stand-off with local school officials in the rural Cherokee Nation, with the school board insisting they can require that students wear masks in their Covid-ravaged community and the GOP governor claiming the board is in violation of state law.
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