Sep 04 Taliban special forces bring abrupt end to women’s protest By Kathy Gannon, Associated Press Taliban special forces in camouflage fired their weapons into the air Saturday, bringing an abrupt and frightening end to the latest protest march in the capital by Afghan women demanding equal rights from the new rulers. Continue reading
Sep 03 Watch 6:34 News Wrap: Afghan women protest Taliban rule in Kabul, demand equal rights In our news wrap Friday, as the Taliban works to set up a new government, dozens of Afghan women protested near the Presidential Palace in Kabul to demand equal rights. President Joe Biden signed an executive order today directing the… Continue watching
Sep 03 5 Stories: A new 4-legged whale fossil, why China is limiting online gaming for kids, and other stories you missed By Deema Zein, Julia Griffin Egyptian researchers unearth a four-legged whale fossil, the EPA bans a pesticide linked to neurological problems in kids and China limits kids under 18 to three hours of online gaming a week. Check out these stories and others you might… Continue reading
Sep 03 EU leader ‘deplores’ Belarus behavior amid migrant standoff By Associated Press EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell spoke Friday hours after a state of emergency took effect in areas of eastern Poland following a surge in illegal migration. Continue reading
Sep 03 WATCH: Blinken says the U.S. will learn from lessons in Afghanistan By Associated Press U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the State Department is committed to looking at everything that's happened between the U.S. and Afghanistan diplomatically "from day one through the present, and to draw lessons from it."… Continue reading
Sep 03 Ex-Cardinal McCarrick, 91, pleads not guilty in sex assault By Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press An activist says former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick's court appearance in a sex abuse case marks a new phase in the global struggle to hold clerics accountable. Continue reading
Sep 03 As Afghan refugees arrive in the U.S., Southeast Asian American advocates urge more support By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Many Vietnamese, Lao, Hmong, and Cambodian Americans see their own families’ journeys to America in the voyage Afghans are making now. Continue reading
Sep 03 WATCH: Mayorkas says U.S. could admit more than 50,000 people from airlift By Ben Fox, Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press The U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security says the government expects to admit more than 50,000 people into the country from the Afghanistan airlift. Continue reading
Sep 02 Watch 5:53 News Wrap: Biden administration to invest $3 billion in COVID vaccine production In our news wrap Thursday, the Biden administration pledged a $3 billion investment in the nation's COVID-19 vaccine supply chain. First-time claims for unemployment benefits in the U.S. have fallen to a new low during the pandemic. Calmer winds in… Continue watching
Sep 02 Watch 11:21 Taliban’s ‘fragmented’ leadership puts aid efforts for Afghan civilians, refugees at risk Even before the U.S. left Afghanistan, many of the 38 million people who live there were in dire need. Now, with the Taliban in charge, the job of aid groups is much harder. An unknown future awaits the tens of… Continue watching