Former President Donald Trump called on President Joe Biden to "resign in disgrace" on Sunday amid the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban's takeover of the country. After about a weeklong military surge that led to the Taliban capturing nearly all of Afghanistan, Taliban forces closed in on Kabul on Sunday, prepared to take over the capital and declare the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. "It is time for Joe Biden to resign in disgrace for what he has allowed to happen to Afghanistan, along with the tremendous surge in COVID, the Border catastrophe, the destruction of energy independence, and our crippled economy," Trump wrote in a tweemail.
As Taliban leaders continue to meet inside the presidential palace in Kabul and Ashraf Ghani has left the country, the U.N. Security Council has called an emergency meeting for Monday morning. The big picture: Secretary General António Guterres is scheduled to brief the security council as Taliban leaders continue to call for an "unconditional surrender" with little remaining pushback. Guterres on Sunday tweeted that the United Nations "remains determined to contribute to a peaceful settlement & promote human rights of all Afghans."
Two tropical storms simultaneously threatened landfall Sunday as Fred strengthened on its way to the Gulf Coast and Grace continued to loom over the Caribbean. The National Hurricane Center upgraded Fred after it regenerated back into a tropical storm over the Gulf of Mexico. The storm is expected to hit southern Florida, the Big Bend and the Panhandle.
The U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA) on Monday will announce revised nutrition standards dramatically boosting average food stamp benefits, the agency confirmed on Sunday. The New York Times first reported the plan to unveil the largest permanent benefits increase in the history of the government's primary anti-hunger program, saying the change would result in average benefits rising more than 25% versus pre-pandemic levels. Under the new rules, average monthly benefits, $121 per person before the pandemic, will rise by $36 starting in October, the newspaper reported, adding that all 42 million people in the program would receive additional aid.
Dominic Raab was accused of being “missing in action” as it emerged he was abroad on holiday when the Afghanistan capital of Kabul fell to the Taliban. The Foreign Secretary was returning to the UK from overseas on Sunday as he faced criticism from the Tory as well as Labour benches for not speaking up more in the last week. Parliament was recalled on Sunday for a special single day sitting, with MPs due to debate the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan on Wednesday.
A party boat in Texas capsized during a strong thunderstorm, leading to the death of one person, officials said. The boat capsized Saturday on Lake Conroe, in Conroe, Texas, about 40 miles north of Houston. The boat was about 40 minutes into a 90-minute cruise when it capsized, according to NBC affiliate KPRC of Houston.
It is particularly unfortunate, then, that Bauer and his representatives have used bullying tactics in responding to sexual assault allegations against him. On Saturday, after the Washington Post reported that an Ohio woman had obtained a temporary order of protection against him last year, Bauer complained on Twitter that the Post had “spent the last six weeks digging into my life … in an effort to create a false narrative. In a hearing that begins Monday, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge will consider whether to keep in place a temporary restraining order against Bauer, this one obtained by a California woman.
Statewide, hospitals are so depleted that the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, is turning to medical personnel from out of state. In stricken Austin, like much of Texas and other Republican-run states, rightwing governors are actively hampering the health policies that could halt the spread of the virus. Private businesses like Waterloo can tell customers to wear masks, but unlike earlier this year, they have no statewide mandate to back them up.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US should "crush the Taliban who are surrounding Kabul." President Joe Biden on Saturday ordered more troops to the country to assist the evacuation of US personnel and allies. The Taliban has seized control of most of Afghanistan and reached the capital city of Kabul on Sunday.
The 70-year-old woman's husband had gone to pay her visit at the center in southwest Houston when he suddenly pulled out a gun and committed the crime.
The scandal surrounding the Duke of York has prompted tentative discussions about a wider reshuffle of the royals' military roles, the Telegraph understands. The Duke, 61, is keen to hang on to his role as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, but aides acknowledge that if forced to step back permanently from public life, as is widely expected, he will have to be replaced. A civil lawsuit filed in New York last week, accusing him of sexual abuse, including “rape in the first degree,” against Virginia Roberts Giufffre, then 17, has left him even further isolated, with even his brother, the Prince of Wales, concluding there may be no way back to royal duties.
Tropical Storm Grace, which formed early Saturday morning in the Atlantic Ocean, saw its wind speed decrease and had its forecast track shift west, taking Palm Beach and most of Broward out of its path. The storm still has a long-range forecast that affects Florida by midweek. Grace became the seventh named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, and has a similar forecast track as Fred, now a tropical wave , the National Hurricane Center said in its 5 p.m. update.
School officials said at least 76 students tested positive for the disease and 679 were in quarantine, according to Action News Jax. The shutdown occurred less than two weeks after the school year began, and there won't be virtual instruction. Ware County Georgia School District officials said 76 students had tested positive for the disease while 679 students were quarantining for possible exposure to the virus, according to a report from Action Jax News.
A petition on Change.org calling for recurring $2,000 stimulus checks is almost up to 3 million signatures. The petition has been gaining traction especially since May, as the Delta variant spread through the country. There have been three stimulus checks released, and it's unclear whether there will be a fourth.
Iceland is one of the most vaccinated countries in the world. Although the natural, immediate response to this news might be panic, experts who spoke to The Daily Beast said that Iceland's recent surge in infections—fueled by the new Delta variant of the novel coronavirus—is probably a sign that herd immunity is within reach over there. What's happening in Iceland right now might be one of the final stages in the long, often painful process by which a country achieves some form of population-level herd immunity against a dangerous virus.
Nicki Minaj's husband, Kenneth Petty, pled guilty to attempted rape in 1994. The woman says Minaj offered her $500,000 to recant her story. Rap superstar Nicki Minaj and her husband, Kenneth Petty, are being sued for harassment by a woman he sexually assaulted in 1994, with the victim claiming the couple tried to make her recant her accusations.
The school she attended didn't require masks for the first few days - until cases began cropping up among students and teachers. The school has since reversed its mask policy but Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is waging a campaign against them. A Mississippi eighth grader died on Saturday just hours after receiving a positive test for COVID-19.
A Taliban official announced they will declare the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The Taliban will declare the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace in Kabul, a Taliban official announced on Sunday. From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban ruled the country under the same name.
Rosengran knows the test may have been inaccurate, and he still has confidence in all the COVID-19 vaccines authorized by the FDA. But he can't help wondering if he's one of the unlucky few whose body did not react properly to the J&J vaccine. You always have this little thing at the back of your mind, no matter how much data you read, like, 'I've had one shot, and other people have two shots,'” he said.
"Bar Rescue" host Jon' Taffer has apologized for remarks he made about unemployed restaurant staff. It "was an unfortunate attempt to express a desire for our lives to return to normal," he later said. "Bar Rescue" host Jon Taffer apologized for comments he made about restaurant workers on the "The Ingraham Angle" on Fox News.
Esther Dingley went missing in November 2020 after going on a solo trek in the Pyrenees mountains. The months of searching for Dingley sparked many different theories as to how she died. After months of searching, Colgate found Dingley's body on Tuesday at the bottom of a cliff several weeks after another hiker discovered a fragment of her skull on the Port de la Glere pass.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has banned school mask mandates and threatened to withhold funding. One school official, from the seventh-largest district in the US, told Insider DeSantis has caused chaos and panic among parents. A school board member at the seventh-largest school district in the nation said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's handling of COVID-19 has caused "panic" and "chaos" among parents and school staff.
Former President Donald Trump criticized President Joe Biden on his Afghanistan withdrawal strategy. "He ran out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our Administration left for him," he said. Biden alleged that Trump "left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001."
An intensive care unit nurse is switching her position, citing exhaustion and mental strain after working in a hospital overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients in a state where the vaccination rate is low amid the threat of the Delta variant. "I don't have any strength left. Honestly, I've given so much I can't keep going," Jen Sartin, a nurse at Singing River Health System in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, said in an interview with MSNBC.
The root cause is Tagovailoa still doesn't have a set or receivers he is so bonded with as to allow him to play instinctively with them. So he was thinking on that play. Going through a progression to see if his first read (to a backup receiver) was open, instead of knowing his starting receiver would be open or not.
“Whether we call it a housing bubble or not, the current situation is untenable.”
“This has not been a bubble. A bubble is not simply rising prices, but demand not justified by fundamental economic factors.”
“Not only is the Fed further inflating the U.S. housing market bubble but it is also inflating the global everything bubble.”
“There's evidence that buyers are providing the cure, staying away from the high prices and cooling the market.”
“Soaring home prices may not be as destabilizing … as they were in the last bubble, but they do contribute to rising inequality.”