celebrity-news” target=”_blank”>Spike Lee< terrorist attacks. The Brooklyn-born filmmaker faced some controversy after he revealed in a recent interview that his four-part, eight-hour documentary series “NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½” will explore some conspiracy theories surrounding the terrorist attacks and even question the culpability of the U.S. government. In a statement provided to Fox …
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Louisiana reports COVID-19 death in child under 1
Louisiana health officials on Wednesday announced the death of a healthy-living under 1 due to infectious-disease, marking the 11th pediatric fatality in the state since the beginning of the pandemic. The death, one of 110 new fatalities reported Wednesday, brings Louisiana’s number of COVID-19-related fatalities to 12,226. “Each COVID-19 death …
Read More »Video appears to show Taliban operating Black Hawk helicopter
A video circulating on social media appears to show a U.S.-made UH-60 Black Hawk military”>helicopter<. “Reportedly a #Taliban captured #Afghanistan Air Force UH-60 Blackhawk at Kandahar. Important to note it is only shown taxiing not flying,” Joseph Dempsey, a research associate for defense and military analysis at the International Institute …
Read More »Afghanistan explosions: 4 US Marines killed in blast at Kabul airport, others wounded, officials say
A suicide bomb attack outside the Abbey Gate at Kabul’s airport in conflicts Thursday killed four U.S. Marines and injured three others, U.S. officials told Fox News, as the Pentagon confirmed there was also a second blast at a nearby hotel where Americans had previously sheltered. A U.S. official said …
Read More »'UFO' seen on Florida Turnpike turns heads
Here’s an out-of-this-world sighting. What appeared to resemble an unidentified flying object floating along a highway in us-regions had some doing a double-take. “Not the typical vehicle you see on the highway,” the media company Only in Dade captioned a video on its Instagram account that garnered more than 1,000 …
Read More »Henry Kissinger: America 'lost strategic focus' in Afghanistan with unattainable goals
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger bemoaned America’s failure in the tragic turn of events in conflicts in a new opinion piece for The Economist, arguing that at some point in its 20-year campaign, the U.S. military lost strategic focus. While Americans and Afghan allies still stranded in Afghanistan following …
Read More »Pediatric COVID-19 hospital admissions hitting record highs, CDC data shows
Pediatric infectious-disease-related hospitalizations have hit all-time highs in the U.S., with the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reporting over 50,660 admissions through the month of August thus far. The current 7-day average, calculated for the week of Aug. 17-Aug. 23, is about 309 …
Read More »Pelosi and House ditch town as Biden deals with Afghanistan evacuation, Americans dead in Kabul explosions
House Speaker nancy-pelosi” target=”_blank”>Nancy Pelosi< this week as the house-of-representatives” target=”_blank”>House of Representatives< Then Thursday two explosions rocked Kabul, including a second explosion near the Baron hotel, where U.S. Army helicopters previously evacuated Americans into the Kabul airport. The Pentagon said that the explosion at the Abbey Gate “resulted in …
Read More »Chicago police Officer Ella French's wounded partner shares new video commemorating 7th anniversary on force
Slain chicago” target=”_blank”>Chicago< Ella French’s partner, Officer Carlos Yanez Jr., released another video from a rehabilitation facility Wednesday commemorating his seventh anniversary on the force. “Happy Anniversary. 25 of August, 2014. Seven Years. We did it,” Yanez, seen lying in a medical bed with a head rest and bandages, said …
Read More »Billboard advertises elderly dog who's been in shelter for 2 years
An 11-year-old pets” target=”_blank”>shelter dog<. Sally, a pit bull and terrier mix, has been available for family-and-friends” target=”_blank”>adoption<, since 2020, but her luck might change now that she has a billboard promoting her availability. According to viral Facebook posts, local animal lovers in Kansas City, Missouri, teamed up to get …
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