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May 16, 2025

Month: August 2021

Article

2 suicide attacks outside Kabul airport; at least 13 dead

August 26, 2021 Sayed Ziarmal Hashemi, Lilita C. Balor and Joseph Krauss, Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — Two suicide bombers and gunmen targeted crowds massing near the Kabul airport Thursday, in the waning days of a massive airlift that has drawn thousands of people seeking to flee the Taliban […]

Article

US jobless claims rise by 4,000 to 353,000

August 26, 2021 Paul Wiseman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose for the first time in five weeks even though the economy and job market have been recovering briskly from the coronavirus pandemic. Jobless […]

Article

Students’ lack of routine vaccines muddies start of school

August 26, 2021 Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The vaccinations that U.S. schoolchildren are required to get to hold terrible diseases like polio, measles, tetanus and whooping cough in check are way behind schedule this year, threatening further complications to […]

Article

Israeli PM to make case to Biden against Iran nuclear pact

August 26, 2021 Aamer Madhani, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett are set to hold their first face-to-face meeting Thursday, and Israel’s new leader intends to press Biden to give up pursuit of reviving […]

Opinion

MOORE: End the real estate racket

August 26, 2021 Stephen Moore

The housing market is hot, hot, hot right now, and home prices continue to soar in many markets to their highest prices ever. Since it doesn’t cost a real estate agent 10 times as much […]

Article

Southern Democrats aim to export Georgia’s 2020 success

August 26, 2021 Bill Barrow, Associated Press

ATLANTA — Stacey Abrams spent years telling donors that Democrats could win in Georgia if they would provide the money to build a statewide political operation. In 2020, Georgia finally delivered its 16 presidential electoral […]

Article

National group Susan B. Anthony List targets NC’s Deborah Ross as ‘too extreme for NC’ on abortion

August 26, 2021 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH — The Susan B. Anthony List, a national 501(c)(4) organization based in Washington, D.C., is targeting a member of North Carolina’s congressional delegation as “too extreme” on abortion, as part of a six-figure campaign. […]

Article

Biden picks Burns for China ambassador; Emanuel for Japan

August 26, 2021 Aamer Madhani, Associated Press

President Joe Biden is nominating longtime former senior State Department official Nicholas Burns to serve as his ambassador to China and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to serve as his envoy to Japan. Emanuel was […]

Article

Haiti police commit more units to protecting earthquake aid

August 25, 2021 Evens Sanon, Associated Press

LES CAYES, Haiti — Haiti’s National Police announced Monday that it had deployed additional units south of the capital to protect aid shipments being taken to the country’s earthquake-damaged southwestern peninsula. The announcement came one […]

Article

Montana only state to ban vaccine requirements for employees

August 25, 2021 Iris Samuels, Associated Press

HELENA, Mont. — While many large companies across the U.S. have announced that COVID-19 vaccines will be required for their employees to return to work in-person, there is one state where such requirements are banned: […]

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