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It’s not just Afghanistan — Americans are losing faith in Biden on many issues By Analysis by Harry Enten CNN August 28, 2021 (CNN)President Joe Biden’s approval rating is at its lowest point in his presidency. In the average of polls, he stands at about 47%. That’s a steady decline from the beginning of this month (51%), last month (52%) and beginning of June (54%). It would be easy to assign Biden’s decline to the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, but, as the data shows, Biden has been trending downward for a while. The truth is that…

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American Forces Destroy C.I.A. Base In Controlled Detonation By Julian E. Barnes and Farnaz Fassihi New York Times August 28, 2021 A controlled detonation by American forces that was heard throughout Kabul has destroyed Eagle Base, the final C.I.A. outpost outside the Kabul airport, U.S. officials said on Friday. Blowing up the base was intended to ensure that any equipment or information left behind would not fall into the hands of the Taliban. Eagle Base, first started early in the war at a former brick factory, had been used throughout the conflict. It grew from a small outpost…

New Orleans mayor says there’s not enough time to order new mandatory evacuations ahead of Hurricane Ida By Steve Almasy and Rebekah Riess CNN August 28, 2021 (CNN)Almost 16 years to the date after Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed the city’s flood protection system, New Orleans is bracing for another potentially dangerous storm. Hurricane Ida was moving into the Gulf of Mexico on Friday as a Category 1 hurricane but forecasters say it could hit the Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm on Sunday. In New Orleans, Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced Friday evening that the National Weather Service and…

Larry Elder’s private charity was a bust, and questions swirl over where the money went Los Angeles Times August 28, 2021 Larry Elder, the GOP front-runner in California’s recall election to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom, has long trumpeted a libertarian view on the “welfare state” and its excesses, arguing private charity is a better solution than government programs. But the conservative radio host’s own nonprofit raised little cash and made no grants in the nearly two decades it was active, a Times review of its annual tax filings show. From 1998 through 2014, Larry Elder Charities Inc. raised…

State Department contradicts Biden’s remarks that there may be a ‘kill list’ provided to Taliban By Andrew Miller Fox News August 28, 2021 State Department spokesperson Ned Price seemingly contradicted President Biden’s acknowledgment that the United States may have provided the Taliban with a list of names of Americans and allies in order to usher them to the airport. “The idea that we are providing names or personally identifiable information to the Taliban in a way that exposes anyone to additional risk, that is simply wrong, simply wrong,” Price said in response to a question about reports that…

California recall candidate Larry Elder under police investigation following 2015 domestic violence accusation that his campaign denies By Kyung Lah and Stella Chan CNN August 27, 2021 (CNN)The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating domestic violence accusations against California Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder — allegations he has denied. “The department was made aware of domestic violence accusations against Larry Elder,” an LAPD spokesperson told CNN, but they said additional details on the allegations would not be made public “due to the confidential nature of domestic violence investigations.” The police said in a statement to CNN that nothing…

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Judge Orders Sanctions Against Pro-Trump Lawyers Over Election Lawsuit By Alan Feuer New York Times August 26, 2021 A federal judge in Michigan on Wednesday night ordered sanctions to be levied against nine pro-Trump lawyers, including Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood, ruling that a lawsuit laden with conspiracy theories that they filed last year challenging the validity of the presidential election was “a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.” In her decision, Judge Linda V. Parker of the Federal District Court in Detroit ordered the lawyers to be referred to the local legal authorities in…