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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California recall election that could remove first-term Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office wraps up Tuesday. Nearly 8 million mail-in ballots — the form of voting most Californians use — already have been returned out of 22 million sent to registered voters. © Provided by Associated Press California Gov. Gavin Newsom is photographed […]
One was a motorist who helped his wife climb out from the passenger seat as the raging water rushed in, then drifted away to his death. Another was a mother of three who, engrossed in a beloved hobby when the tornado alerts flashed, made the mistake of thinking “not here.” A dozen miles to her […]
Lake Tahoe ski resorts near the Caldor Fire in Northern California are helping firefighter crews hold off the flames. © Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A snow machine blows water on a structure at Sierra-at Tahoe ski resort as the Caldor Fire moves through the area on August 30, 2021 in Twin Bridges, California. Heavenly Ski Resort and Sierra-at-Tahoe ski […]
© wakil kohsar/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images At least 60 Afghans and 12 U.S. service members were killed at the Kabul airport Thursday when two blasts ripped through crowds trying to enter the American-controlled facility, disrupting the final push of the U.S.-led evacuation effort. A suicide bomb attack at the airport’s Abbey Gate was followed by an […]
© Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press President Biden told world leaders that the U.S. is on pace to leave Afghanistan by Aug. 31, according to the White House, as the Taliban said they would prevent Afghan citizens from reaching Kabul’s airport to board evacuation flights. The president also instructed the Pentagon and the State Department to […]
© Carl Court/Getty Images The Pentagon announced on Monday that it was moving ahead with plans to require coronavirus vaccinations for all of its active-duty troops now that the vaccine had been fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration for those 16 and older. Full federal approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for those 16 and […]
By Leela de Kretser and Brendan O’Brien © Reuters/STAFF Hurricane Henri preparations in the Hamptons AMAGANSETT, N.Y. (Reuters) -The U.S. East Coast braced on Saturday to take a direct hit from Hurricane Henri as it threatened to pound the region with fierce winds and heavy rains that could cause «life-threatening» storm surge and flooding, the National […]
As Afghan women remained cloistered at home in Kabul, fearful for their lives and their futures, a starkly different image played out on Tuesday on Tolo News, an Afghan television station: a female presenter interviewing a Taliban official. © Andrea DiCenzo for The New York Times Some of the members of an all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan during a […]
© Victor J. Blue On their first day in control of Kabul, Taliban fighters commandeered streets and searched the homes and offices of government officials and media outlets, spreading fear and menace across the Afghan capital. Armed militants erected checkpoints throughout the city of six million people, imposed a 9 p.m. curfew and took over […]
The crush of Covid-19 cases ripping through the population of unvaccinated Americans has some public health experts looking to vaccine mandates as a way to climb out of the pandemic. © Emily Elconin/Getty Images Currently, about 58.5% of the US population has received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose and roughly 50.1% is fully vaccinated, according to […]
