Articles filed under Joe Biden
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'Easiest decision I've ever made:' United Airlines volunteers help in Afghan evacuationSep 05, 2021 1:00 am - In 1988, a frightened 6-year-old fled tumult in Iran and boarded a jetliner on a journey to France and later America. The kindness of strangers — flight attendants — pro...
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Analysis: War is over but not Biden's Afghanistan challengesAug 31, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - With the final stream of U.S. cargo planes soaring over the peaks of the Hindu Kush, President Joe Biden fulfilled a campaign promise to end America's ...
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Biden praises airlift, defends departure from 'forever war'Aug 31, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Addressing the nation, a defensive President Joe Biden on Tuesday called the U.S. military airlift to extract more than 120,000 Afghans, Americans and other...
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Biden promise to strike extremists faces new Afghan realityAug 27, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - By promising to strike the extremists who killed 13 Americans and dozens of Afghans, President Joe Biden now confronts the reality of finding and targeting ...
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Supreme Court allows evictions to resume, blocking Biden's banAug 26, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's conservative majority is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a tempo...
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ISIS attack in Kabul kills 13 U.S. service members, at least 60 AfghansAug 26, 2021 1:00 am - KABUL, Afghanistan - Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul's airport Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horr...
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Blinken estimates 1,500 Americans may still await evacuation from AfghanistanAug 25, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that as many as 1,500 Americans may be awaiting evacuation from Afghanistan, a figure that suggests that pa...
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G-7 leaders can't sway Biden to delay Afghanistan withdrawalAug 24, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Sharply divided leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized democracies clashed Tuesday over U.S. President Joe Biden's insistence on withdrawing from Afgh...
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U.S. troops surge evacuations out of Kabul but threats persistAug 23, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The U.S. military reported its biggest day of evacuation flights out of Afghanistan by far on Monday, but deadly violence that has blocked many desperate ev...
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UK struggles for influence as Afghan crisis strains U.S. tiesAug 23, 2021 1:00 am - LONDON - The messy exit of Western military forces from Afghanistan and the swift takeover of the country by the Taliban has stunned officials in Britain and strained th...