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The fall of Kabul to the Taliban has sparked chaos and bloodshed throughout Afghanistan. And while the Taliban has claimed it will oversee a peaceful transition—one in which women will supposedly have rights under Sharia law—two female Afghan journalists living in the capital city told The Daily Beast that all they’ve witnessed thus far is violence.

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GAINESVILLE, Fla.—A county in north central Florida has become the first in the state to impose an indoor mask mandate, setting up a potential battle with Gov. Ron DeSantis as it wages war against COVID-19.

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Three U.S. senators announced on Thursday that they tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the number of senators who contracted so-called “breakthrough infections” just this month to four.

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper blasted former U.S Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley and other former Trump officials on Thursday for their “attempted memory hole” of former President Donald Trump’s negotiations and peace agreement with the Taliban, calling it “insulting to everyone.”

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ROME—There is new life in the sleepy hilltop village of Roccaraso, a hamlet known for its sweeping views and nearby ski hills east of Rome. This town of just 1,600 permanent residents dates back to 975 A.D., but it was wiped off the map by German troops who hoped to use its vantage point to stage an attack on Rome during World War II. Now it has a new incarnation with hundreds of Italy’s Afghan helpers evacuated from Kabul settling into the military base that rose from the ruins of the second world war. Читать дальше...

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Zaki Anwari, a 19-year-old Afghan soccer player and a former member of the country’s national team, fell to his death from a U.S. plane taking off from the Kabul airport Monday.

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Here’s one person no one was expecting to join OnlyFans: notorious “race faker” Rachel Dolezal.

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When disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly recorded himself having sex with a teenager in a home studio outside Chicago called “The Cabin,” he insisted she dress up as a young girl, the woman testified on Thursday.

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Federal authorities said on Thursday they were trying to negotiate with a man who parked his truck outside the Library of Congress and made bomb threats while streaming live on Facebook.

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President Joe Biden says he doesn’t believe that the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan can be chalked up as a failure.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have hit back at claims that they have “reignited a rift” with the royals by “publicly attacking” the queen.

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When the coronavirus pandemic hit for real last March, forcing restaurants and other businesses to close their doors, it felt like a scene from a bad Tom Cruise movie where aliens were invading and life as we know had ceased to exist.

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When Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI) watched the final scenes of the U.S. war in Afghanistan unfold on Sunday, he decided to do something few other Democrats did: publicly blame President Joe Biden.

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When Next to Normal made its Broadway debut in 2009 it was trailblazing, acclaimed for tackling the complex subject of a suburban family dealing with a mother’s downward spiral caused by her bipolar disorder. Being the first mainstream production to address mental illness in such a profound way helped draw several young fans to the musical, feeling it served as a representation of themselves or their own family dynamic.

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Last fall, employees at one of America’s fastest-growing startups began making anxious phone calls. They believed that CEO Vishal Garg—a volatile entrepreneur with a history of disgruntled business partners—had been giving huge amounts of equity to one of his most loyal lieutenants, in a way that violated norms and seemed to defy explanation.

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Any time there’s a dramatic change in Dorinda Medley’s life, she finds herself back at home. That might sound silly to say. It’s home; what is it for if not sanctuary during hard times? But it’s been a profound throughline in the entrepreneur turned reality TV star and, now, author’s life.

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Millions of years ago, tens of thousands of light-years away, two giant white stars brushed against each other.

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The desperate messages started flooding Joshua Goldstein’s inbox at 4 a.m. early Sunday morning.

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It has been 124 days since the last time I was raped.

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Scouting Report: The Tyler Chukka isn’t just a stylish shoe, it’s a sturdy one, too. Made with full grain-roughout leather, and an expertly crafted outsole, these shoes are comfortable, and up for just about anything.

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Despite finally hanging up the shield in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, Chris Evans appears to be fully committing to the whole Captain America bit.

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An apartment is available in New York right now which is unlike any other property in the city, the nation, and likely the world. It fills the topmost floors of the Woolworth Building, that iconic lower Manhattan landmark which opened in 1913 as the headquarters of a sprawling discount retail chain. “The Pinnacle,” as it’s being marketed, is offered at $79 million, and includes four full floors within the tower’s pyramidal spire as well as a mezzanine and 360-degree open-air terrace at the building’s tip. Читать дальше...

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Back in 2011, two years before American women were authorized to engage in combat, the U.S. military fashioned a loophole called the Cultural Support Team (CST).

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Seth Meyers on Wednesday lashed out at Republicans like Karl Rove and John Bolton over their criticisms of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, while also taking to task the media outlets that gave airtime to the pair of war hawks.

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In a matter of months, Joe Biden has reminded Americans that their government can work, and be a force for solving, rather than exacerbating, the nation’s gravest problems. That has set off alarm bells in the Republican Party, which has devoted decades to sowing division, and seeking to discredit, and destroy, the nation’s government from within, culminating in Trump’s frontal attack on democracy itself.