Monday, September 22, 2025

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State Dept.’s Trust of Taliban Keeps Would-Be Evacuees ‘in Some Kind of Jail’

(Headline USA) American veterans groups and others are pleading for U.S. and Taliban action on a weeklong standoff that has left hundreds of would-be evacuees from Afghanistan desperate to board waiting charter flights out of a northern Afghan airport. These groups say several dozen Americans --- along with a much larger...

US Built Databases for Afghanis; Taliban May Now Use Them for Repression

(Headline USA) Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent hundreds of millions of dollars building databases for the Afghan people. The nobly stated goal: Promote law and order and government accountability and modernize a war-ravaged land. But in the Taliban’s lightning seizure of power, most of that digital apparatus...

Judge Strikes Down ‘Defund Police’ Language on Minneapolis Ballot Initiative

(Headline USA) A judge struck down ballot language Tuesday that aimed to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new agency, saying the wording was misleading, unworkable, and lacked details necessary for voters to make informed choices. “The court finds that the current ballot language is vague, ambiguous and incapable of...

Top Republican Says Taliban Holding Americans Hostage

(Associated Press) The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee says some Americans who have been trying to get out of Afghanistan since the U.S. military left are sitting in airplanes at an airport ready to leave but the Taliban are not letting them take off. Rep. Michael McCaul of...

Uber, Lyft to Cover Penalties for Drivers Sued Under Texas Anti-Abortion Law

(Associated Press) Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft said Friday they will cover the legal fees of any driver who is sued under the new law prohibiting most abortions in Texas. The Texas law bans abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks and often before women know...

Federal Court Rules Against Catholic School That Fired Gay Teacher

(Associated Press) A gay substitute teacher was wrongfully fired by a Roman Catholic school in North Carolina after he announced in 2014 on social media that he was going to marry his longtime partner, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn ruled Friday that Charlotte Catholic High...

Grassroots Conservatism Finds New Energy in Classroom Culture-War Clashes

(Headline USA) A loose network of conservative groups with ties to major Republican donors and party-aligned think tanks is quietly lending firepower to local activists engaged in anti-indoctrination fights in schools across the country. While they are drawn by the anger of parents opposed to school policies on racial history...

Pete Buttigieg and His ‘Husband’ Say They are Now Parents

(Headline USA) Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his "husband," Chasten, celebrated the arrival of not one — but two — bundles of joy. The first gay person to be confirmed by the Senate for a Cabinet position had shared last month that the couple had become parents after seeking to adopt. "We can’t...

Woke CEOs Promise to Fund Abortions Outside Texas

(Headline USA) The chief executive of Tinder-owner Match Group has sharply criticized the new law prohibiting most abortions in Texas and says she is setting up a fund to help any Texas-based employees who need to seek an abortion outside the state. Rival dating app Bumble also criticized the law...

ACLU & Democrat Counties Sue Texas Gov. Abbott for Election Integrity Bill

(Headline USA) Opponents of a Republican election integrity bill in Texas sued Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday, going to court even before he had signed into law changes to protect the state's vulnerable elections. Two lawsuits, filed in separate federal courts in Texas, are believed to be the first to...

School-Board Members Play Victim as Parents Begin Holding Them Accountable

(Headline USA) 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...

US Expects to Admit More than 50,000 ‘Evacuated’ Afghanis

(Headline USA) At least 50,000 Afghans are expected to be admitted into the United States following the fall of Kabul as part of an “enduring commitment" to help people who aided the American war effort and others who are particularly vulnerable under Taliban rule, the secretary of homeland security said...
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