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Search For Missing Hungarian Man Focused At Grand Canyon
Authorities are asking the public to reach out to them with any information on a Hungarian man whose vehicle was found at Grand Canyon National Park.
NHC Says Hurricane Grace Makes Landfall Along Eastern Yucatan Peninsula
Grace is now located about 10 miles (15 km) south of Tulum.
States Banning Mask Mandates Could Face Civil Rights Probes
In an escalating battle with Republican governors, President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered his Education secretary to explore possible legal action against states that have blocked school mask mandates and other public health measures meant to protect st...
US President Biden Says Covid Booster Shots Could Begin Next Month
The shots will be free and will be provided to people eight months after they received their second shot of the vaccine, the president said.
'Laughing' at Women's Terror to Sigh of Relief: What Afghans Who Fled Taliban-controlled Nation Say
While some shops have opened in capital Kabul and the Taliban told government staff to return to work, individual accounts paint a grim picture.
Human Remains Found in Landing Gear of Military Flight from Kabul, Says U.S. Air Force
Faced with a rapidly deteriorating security situation around the aircraft, the C-17 crew decided to depart the airfield as quickly as possible.
Treasury Department To Release Impounded Religious Tiles
The U.S. Treasury Department is releasing a shipment of tiles that were intended for a northern Virginia mosque but were confiscated at Dulles International Airport after they were determined to have violated sanctions on Iran.
'Do Not Give Up': Americans Help Afghans In New Homeland
Pleas for help from Afghans have been filling up Caroline Clarins phone for days as she works from her rural Minnesota home and tries to provide hope to those who ping heartwrenching messages of desperation from a world away.
Cuomo Issues Clemency For 10 People In Last Days As Governor
In his last days in office, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday granted clemency to 10 people, among them a man whose unsuccessful campaign for exoneration in a 1998 killing was championed by actor Martin Sheen.
Thai Asphalt Giant Implicated In Venezuela Sanctions Case
A major Thai asphalt company has been implicated for money laundering in a criminal complaint against a Miami businessman accused of violating U.S. sanctions for doing maintenance work on Venezuelas fleet of Russian fighter jets.
UNC Journalism School Dean Announces She Is Stepping Down
The dean of the school of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who led the effort to bring awardwinning journalist Nikole HannahJones to her faculty in the face of resistance from the school's trustees, announced Tuesday she is s...
News18 Evening Digest: WHO Concerned About Covid in Afghanistan as Vaccination Slows Down & Other Top Stories
Here are the top stories of the day: UK PM Boris Johnson Plans to Discuss Afghanistan with G7 as Soon as Possible; Horrifying Video Captures Russian Military Transport Aircraft Crashing After Catching Fire; Priyanka Chopra Jonas Named Jio MAMI Mumbai Film...
‘Kabul Safer Under Taliban’: Why Countries Like China, Russia Have Turned Terrorist Group’s Cheerleaders
Russia's ambassador to Afghanistan on Monday praised the Taliban's conduct and said the group had made Kabul safer in the first 24 hours than it had been under the previous authorities.
UK PM Boris Johnson Plans to Discuss Afghanistan with G7 as Soon as Possible
The Prime Minister also stressed the need to agree shared international standards on human rights that any future Taliban government in Afghanistan will be held to by the international community.
Meet the 'Hardest of the Hardcore' Taliban 5 — Released by Obama, Peace Reps with US, Now Masterminds
Interestingly, the same people, the Taliban five, were involved in peace talks to end the conflict in Afghanistan with the US in March 2019.
'We Are All Living With Fear': Afghans Who Worked With US Desperate to Leave as Kabul Falls
Although the Taliban have claimed they will not harm those who worked for foreign forces, many don't believe their assurances of safety.