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AFGHANISTAN—Veteran and Purple Heart recipient, Brian Genthe, Afghan interpreters, and Mohammad Aman Khalil who saved Senator Joe Biden in 2008 have escaped Afghanistan. Khalil and his family were two of the reported 150 Americans left behind when the Biden Administration pulled troops out of Afghanistan five months ago. On Monday, February 7, Fox News correspondent Todd Piro, interviewed Khalil who went...

NEW YORK— Former Secretary of State, Colin Powell died this morning due to complications of Covid-19, despite being full vaccinated. He was 84 years old. The announcement was made in a Facebook post on issued the following statement: “General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to...

UNITED STATES—On Tuesday, August 31, President Joe Biden addressed the nation about the end of the war with Afghanistan. “We completed one of the biggest airlifts in history, with more than 120,000 people evacuated to safety,” said Biden. “The number is more than double what most experts thought were possible. No nation, no nation, has ever done anything like it...

UNITED STATES—The Pentagon confirmed a suicide bomber and gunfire by ISIS fighters killed 12 U.S. troops and 15 were injured along with an undisclosed number of Afghan civilians in an attack outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport on Thursday, August 26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oWi8qc-2Nc According to General Kenneth McKenzie, Commander of the U.S. Central Command in the U.S. Marine Corps, the first attack,...

UNITED STATES—On Monday, August 16, footage was captured of Afghan citizens flooding the tarmac at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan and grabbing hold of the undercarriage of the U.S. bound military planes in an attempt to flee the Taliban. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkwKg1TPZNM According to reports, the last three individuals who were clinging to undercarriage fell to their death, while another man was seen...

ROME, ITALY—An envelope mailed to Pope Francis at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City containing three bullets was intercepted by Italian authorities in Milan. The manager of the post office in Peschiera Borromeo which is approximately 7 miles southeast of Milan, contacted authorities about the suspicious piece of mail on Sunday, August 8. The ammunition in the envelope was reportedly 9...

TOKYO, JAPAN—Revenge is a dish best served GOLD! Team USA Basketball earned their fourth consecutive Gold Medal by holding off France, 87-82 at Saitama Super Arena on Saturday afternoon in Tokyo Japan. Team USA was led by the dominance of Kevin Durant, scoring a game high 29 points as his spectacular play has notched him three Gold medals, in...

UNITED STATES−The U.S. Immigration and Customs reported an large influx of migrants at the U.S. border with Mexico. Immigration policies put into place by the Trump administration have been reversed or suspended by the Biden administration leaving border agents with a large influx of undocumented individuals who were previously housed in Mexico during processing. On Friday, June 18, border agents...

UNITED STATES—On Thursday, June 10, President Joe Biden announced a donation of half a billion Pfizer vaccines for COVID-19 to the world’s poorest countries. https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1402606367345623048 According to the White House website, 500 million vaccines will be delivered by June 2022, with 200 million of those being delivered by the end of 2021. https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1402946174663938053 A White House press release relayed that a billion vaccines...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Wednesday, May 6 two Bay Area college students were sentenced to life in prison by a Roman court related to a 2019 altercation between the students and Italian military police that led to the death of one military officer. The  students have spent the last 21 months in a Roman prison awaiting their trial.  Finnegan Elder, 21, of...