Taliban show off captured weapons at Kandahar victory parade
CNN By Jonny Hallam and Mick Krever, CNN The Taliban on Wednesday showed off dozens of American-made armored vehicles along with newly seized weapons…
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Fact check: Afghans coming to US are not ‘unvetted refugees’
CNN By Tara Subramaniam and Holmes Lybrand, CNN On Monday, the last American military planes left Afghanistan, bringing weeks of evacuations to a…
Continue ReadingLouisiana’s last inhabited barrier island bore the brunt of Hurricane Ida. Here’s what it looks like now
CNN By Eric Levenson and Gary Tuchman, CNN Grand Isle, Louisiana’s last remaining inhabited barrier island at the southern tip of the state,…
Continue ReadingAmazon adding 55,000 employees globally in first hiring push under CEO Andy Jassy
CNN By Clare Duffy, CNN Business After growing its workforce to more than 1.3 million people in 2020, Amazon is planning to hire another 55,000…
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St. Charles Bend reports record 89 COVID-19 hospitalizations, details vaccination status
St. Charles Bend reported a record 89 COVID-19 patients as of early Wednesday, a dozen of whom were in the ICU, 10 on…
Continue ReadingWith 4 months left in 2021, here’s where the US stands with Covid-19
CNN By Amir Vera and Deidre McPhillips, CNN September marks a year and a half since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Covid-19…
Continue ReadingWith 4 months left in 2021, here’s where the US stands with Covid-19
CNN By Amir Vera and Deidre McPhillips, CNN September marks a year and a half since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Covid-19…
Continue ReadingWhen hospitals run out of beds, here’s how they ration care
CNN By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Hospitals across the United States have been facing a crisis. As of Monday morning, more than 96,000 hospital beds are…
Continue ReadingWashington Post: GOP congressman threatened US embassy staff in trying to enter Afghanistan
CNN By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Republican Rep. Markwayne Mullin threatened US embassy staff in Tajikistan, outraged that they would not assist…
Continue ReadingWhen school isn’t safe: ‘You feel like you are sending your child into a lion’s den’
CNN, KPRC By Maggie Fox, CNN What finally did it for Nathan, the parent of a young child at a small Catholic school in California, was the seating…
Continue ReadingDwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson wants to drink tequila with his lookalike
CNN By Marianne Garvey, CNN Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson wants to toss one back with his now famous doppelgänger. Last week, Alabama patrol…
Continue ReadingHazy ‘Hump Day,’ cool temperatures
Good morning, Central Oregon! Happy ‘Hump Day’ and first day of September. Most of the region woke up to frost and haze as temperatures this morning…
Continue ReadingDemocrats break ranks to back $24 billion boost to Pentagon budget
CNN By Jeremy Herb, Daniella Diaz, Melanie Zanona and Sarah Fortinsky, CNN More than a dozen Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee joined…
Continue ReadingNew York declares a state of emergency as the Northeast is slammed by flooding from Ida’s remnants
CNN By Jennifer Gray, Brandon Miller and Taylor Ward, CNN New York declared a state of emergency early Thursday morning as the Northeast region was…
Continue ReadingA mother and her four daughters were separated at the border in 2018. This is what they lost
CNN By Catherine E. Shoichet, Madeleine Stix and Ana Maria Luengo-Romero, CNN Casandra shouts to her sister as she races to her bedroom. “She…
Continue ReadingWomen stage protest in Taliban-controlled Kabul
AFP, DOD, POOL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, CNN By Nathan Hodge, Mia Alberti and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN A group of Afghan women activists staged a small protest…
Continue ReadingAfter Hurricane Ida, here’s how to get help and stay safe in the difficult weeks ahead
CNN By Holly Yan, CNN Hurricane Ida victims returning to damaged homes face a torrent of challenges — if they’re lucky enough to have a…
Continue Reading100,000 more could die from Covid-19 in US by December
CNN, KMOV By Tara John, CNN While hospitals around the United States report oxygen shortages as they treat primarily unvaccinated Americans, a recent…
Continue ReadingBiden’s first August as president shreds his momentum and tosses daunting new challenges in his path
CNN By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN President Joe Biden tried twice last month to get to his beach house on the Delaware coast. He never made…
Continue ReadingAir Force commander details final hours before last US planes left Afghanistan
CNN, JOSHUA RODRIGUEZ, AFPTV, MIRIAM WELLS By Oren Liebermann and Devan Cole, CNN The Air Force commander who helped oversee the final withdrawal of…
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