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U.S. Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee loved her job.

She said so herself in an Aug. 9 Instagram post alongside a photo of her holding a baby in Kabul amid the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, just weeks before the U.S. military was set to end its two-decade presence.

“Escorting evacuees onto the bird,” the 23-year-old from Sacramento, California wrote in another post at the Hamid Karzai International Airport, where dozens of people can be seen boarding a plane.

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The last allied flights out of Kabul are nearly complete with the Italians and British wrapping up their final civilian and troop evacuations on Saturday, as the remaining U.S. military troops warn anyone outside the airport to “leave immediately” or risk certain death.

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Dyson is always known for their powerful, lightweight cordless vacuums that suck up dirt like it's their job ('cause it is). The V7 Absolute is the perfect mid-tier Dyson that can clean your entire home without much work from you. Right now, it's $100 off for Labor Day. It includes two brush heads, one for carpet and one for hard floors. You'll get up to 30 minutes of powerful suction and it easily converts to a handheld vacuum at the touch of a button. Читать дальше...

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Our relationship to sports-as-media is changing. In one of the most ironic reversals of the digital era, it’s athletes themselves pulling the levers. And the premier athletes in American sports are in the NBA. So, what happens in that league has the greatest potential for causing a ripple effect. Two moments from the past year explain this changing landscape pretty succinctly: the recent conversation between Draymond Green and Kevin Durant touching on... Читать дальше...

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It was a dark day in late December when my pretrial officer called to inform me I’d be serving my year in prison at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan. I was hoping for Danbury or Otisville, both much better places to do your bid. But I drew the deuce of clubs: MCC, a prison so bad that the Federal Bureau of Prisons has just decided to shut it down.

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Just as in the Marvel Universe, a ransomware group that goes by the name “Ragnarok” caused catastrophic harm and ended in a snap.

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When the Republican National Committee made a last-minute booking for its GOP convention last August, new documents show that the move created more than $100,000 in costs to accommodate events on White House grounds.

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are, arguably, among the most famous celebrities on the planet.

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“This is a battle between the utility of democracies in the 21st century and autocracies. We’ve got to prove democracy works.” People betting against American democracy “are wrong, and we have to prove them wrong.”

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It’s a philosophical question for the ages: If you make a Candyman movie without letting Tony Todd purr some terrified white woman’s name, imploring her to “be my victim,” have you really made a Candyman movie? Nia DaCosta, who previously directed Tessa Thompson in the quietly gripping crime thriller Little Woods, decided to find out.

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By the fourth week of the new school year this month, COVID had exploded across Georgia’s Bulloch County School District. As of Monday, 900 students in the district of just 11,000 had tested positive for coronavirus in the first three weeks of school.

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HERAT—“It’s like being under siege” is how one medicine student, who The Daily Beast is referring to as Fatima, describes life under the Taliban in the city of Herat. “Most of my friends are still too afraid to leave their houses. And the Taliban are starting to search for people.” She worries that if The Daily Beast uses her real name, she will go on one of the Taliban’s much feared kill lists. “I’d have to delete my social media conversations after this... Читать дальше...

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Last week, Bill Maher dedicated a portion of his Real Time monologue to the news that OnlyFans was banning porn—or as the company put it, “sexually explicit conduct.” The paid subscription service, which is dominated by sex workers who have seen their incomes rise dramatically during the pandemic, admitted that they reached the decision due to pressure from banks like Mastercard, who are adopting stricter guidelines in October surrounding “the seller[s] of adult content.” (Mastercard had received... Читать дальше...

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The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) is a deceptively attractive metallic-green adult beetle with a red abdomen. But few people ever actually see the insect itself—just the trail of destruction it leaves behind under the bark of ash trees.

These insects, which are native to Asia and Russia, were first discovered in Michigan in 2002. Since then they have spread to 35 states and become the most destructive and costly... Читать дальше...

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The United States targeted the Islamic State with an airstrike in Afghanistan in retaliation for the group’s attack on the Kabul airport the day before, the Pentagon announced late Friday.

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After more than a year, the New York City Housing Authority was finally going to at least inspect the water leaking into 62-year-old Ana Del Valle’s apartment from the floor above.

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More than 17 months into the coronavirus pandemic, hospitals are still swamped and a new study provides a stark picture of why.