USA Today,
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Mike Snider
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The $100 million construction project to halt the sinking and tilting of a downtown San Francisco luxury skyscraper has been suspended as the high-rise continues to sink and tilt. Work had begun in May to drill down hundreds of feet to stabilize the 58-story Millennium Tower. But engineers suspended the operation last week to assess why the building had sunk another inch during construction, NBC Bay Area News reported. The tower, which opened in 2009, had been tilting slightly more than 17 inches at the top at the time work began and sinking had slowed. But by mid-August, the building's
The Week,
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Lou Yardley
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9/3/2021 10:01:31 PM
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Kansas great-grandmother Lovell "Cookie" Brown died on Jan. 9, 2020. Originally, her death certificate cited "chronic obstructive lung disease," but it has since been updated to include COVID-19, making her the first official coronavirus death in the U.S. The Mercury News reports that Brown's family only learned of the amendment to her death certificate this week. Previously, the first recorded COVID death in the U.S. was Feb. 6, 2020. (Snip) John Eplee, a Kansas state lawmaker and physician, told Mercury News that Brown's case suggests the virus was "percolating" in the U.S. "before experts realized it." Similarly, an investigation found
Associated Press,
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Adam Beam
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9/1/2021 10:15:40 PM
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California could soon force large department stores to display some child products in gender neutral ways after the state Legislature passed a bill on Wednesday aimed at getting rid of traditional pink and blue marketing schemes for items like toys and toothbrushes. The bill would not outlaw traditional boys and girls sections in department stores, but it would require retailers to have a gender neutral section to display “a reasonable selection” of items “regardless of whether they have been traditionally marketed for either girls or for boys.” The bill would only apply to department stores with 500
Federalist,
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John Daniel Davidson
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The first seven months of Joe Biden’s presidency have been fraught with crises. First it was the coronavirus pandemic and the vaccine rollout. Then it was the border crisis. Then it was the economy. And now Afghanistan, where the Taliban are now reportedly hanging people by the neck from U.S.-supplied Blackhawk helicopters, and the U.S. withdrawal has left behind hundreds of Americans and perhaps thousands of Green Card holders in what now amounts to the largest hostage crisis in American history. The administration is stumbling from one disaster to the next, with no end in sight and public opinion plummeting
Associated Press,
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Aritz Parra
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MADRID — Pope Francis has criticized the West's recent involvement in Afghanistan as an outsider's attempt to impose democracy — although he did it by citing Russia's Vladimir Putin while thinking he was quoting Germany's Angela Merkel. Asked during a radio interview aired Wednesday about the new political map taking shape in Afghanistan after the United States and its allies withdrew from the Taliban-controlled country after 20 years of war, the pope said he would answer with a quote that he attributed to the German chancellor, whom he described as “one of the world's greatest political figures.” “It’s necessary to
CNN Opinion,
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Peter Bergen
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For the past 15 years, Leslie Schweitzer has helped support the American University of Afghanistan, from literally the ground up. As a board member of the university and chair of the Friends of American University of Afghanistan, she spent much of the past week with the president of the university, Ian Bickford, and other members of the board in Doha, Qatar, assisting with the effort to evacuate around 4,000 students, faculty, Afghan national staff and their families, as well as alumni -- namely, all of those who had been involved with the American University of Afghanistan over the past decade and
Associated Press/CBS4 [Denver],
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Carolyn Thompson
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A Nevada school board member said he had thoughts of suicide before stepping down amid threats and harassment. In Virginia, a board member resigned over what she saw as politics driving decisions on masks. The vitriol at board meetings in Wisconsin had one member fearing he would find his tires slashed. School board members are largely unpaid volunteers, traditionally former educators and parents who step forward to shape school policy, choose a superintendent and review the budget. But a growing number are resigning or questioning their willingness to serve as meetings have devolved into shouting contests between deeply political constituencies
Independent (UK),
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Jade Bremner
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An American woman, and former military interpreter, remains trapped in Afghanistan after the last US flight departed. The US citizen, who goes under the pseudonym Sara, spoke to CNN’s Chris Cuomo from Kabul on Monday night, outlining how she attempted to get to US checkpoints but was tear-gassed. Sara wanted to get as many people out of the country before she fled herself. “I just can’t believe no one told me that this was the last flight,” she said to Cuomo. (Snip) As they were approaching the airport, Sara “started shouting, ‘I’m an American, please open the gate I’m here
WWL-TV [New Orleans LA],
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Erika Ferrando
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SLIDELL, La. — A Slidell man was attacked by an alligator during Hurricane Ida and hasn't been seen since. According to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's office, a 71-year-old man was in his shed on Avery Drive when his wife said she heard a commotion. Their shed is located near Lake Pontchartrain and reportedly had several feet of water inside of it due to Hurricane Ida's storm surge. Deputies said the woman saw her husband being attacked by an alligator. She pulled him away from the gator before running to call for help. (Tweet) Due to the high waters and Hurricane
Business Insider,
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Tom Porter
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The father of a US Marine who was killed in the Kabul airport attack last week said he challenged President Joe Biden to "learn the stories" of the victims at the ceremony where the remains of service members were returned to the US. (Snip) Schmitz said that Biden spoke of losing his son, Beau Biden, an Iraq veteran, to cancer, six years ago. But Schmitz said he wanted to talk about Jared instead, and he and his wife took out a photo of their son to show the president. "I said, 'Don't you ever forget that name. Don't you ever
Agence France-Presse,
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Staff
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8/30/2021 10:55:21 PM
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Odessa (Ukraine) - The remains of up to 20,000 people have been found in Ukraine's southern city of Odessa as excavations continue at a site believed to be a mass grave of victims of Stalin's Terror, historians said Monday. According to various estimates, the bones of between 5,000 and 20,000 people lie in the ground, making it one of the largest mass graves unearthed in Ukraine so far. They were discovered this month close to Odessa airport after exploratory works started as part of expansion plans. "As of today, 29 graves have been discovered. The bodies lie in several layers," local
Hill [Washington DC],
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Mychael Schnell
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Uzbekistan is warning the U.S. that Afghan pilots trained by American forces who fled to the Central Asian country after the Taliban took over in Afghanistan may face expulsion. Hundreds of Afghan service members fled to Uzbekistan aboard dozens of U.S.-supplied planes and helicopters, along with families and colleagues, after the Taliban seized control of the capital city of Kabul earlier this month. Uzbekistan, however, is now urging the U.S. to extract those Afghan pilots to a different country to avoid clashes between them and the Taliban, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing officials. Uzbekistan has continued relations with the
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No wonder Old Joe and the Pope get along so well. They are in the same stage of mindlessness.