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Updated Aug 17, 2021 - World

Tropical Storm Grace complicates Haiti rescue efforts

Buildings damaged due the earthquake in Saint-Louis-du-Sud, Haiti.
Updated Aug 17, 2021 - World

New Zealand enters nationwide lockdown after new Delta case

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses media during a post cabinet press conference at Parliament on June 28, 2021 in Wellington, New Zealand.
Aug 17, 2021 - Health

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tests positive for COVID-19

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

In photos: America's longest wars

Side by side photos of silhouettes of American soldiers from the Vietnam and Afghanistan wars.
Aug 17, 2021 - World

In photos: Satellite images show crowds at Kabul airport in Afghanistan

Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan as thousands of people converged on the tarmac and airport runways as countries attempt to evacuate personnel from the city.

Kochworld comes to Biden's defense on Afghanistan

President Joe Biden stands in front of a row of American flags and gestures at a podium with an insignia reading President of the United States
Aug 17, 2021 - World

Taliban vow to honor women's rights, but within "cultural frameworks"

Taliban fighters stand guard along a street at the Massoud Square in Kabul
Aug 17, 2021 - World

A Vietnamese refugee's message on Afghanistan

Children look at a passing aircraft at a makeshift camp for displaced Afghans on Saturday.
Aug 17, 2021 - World

Pentagon says Kabul airport is secure, evacuation flights have resumed

Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the Kabul airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021
Aug 17, 2021 - Sports

The sports world's "decacorn"

Aug 17, 2021 - World

Taliban accumulate massive amounts of U.S.-supplied firepower

Taliban standing alongside Afghan security force equipment
Aug 17, 2021 - Economy

An early warning from New York

The defining image of Biden's Afghanistan exit

Afghans running alongside US military plane
Aug 17, 2021 - Health

Vaccine mandates sweep Corporate America

Illustration of a briefcase with a vaccination record card in it.

Democrats eye budget reconciliation to aid Afghan refugees

People try to climb over the walls onto the grounds of Hamid Karzai International Airport in the hopes of evacuating
Aug 17, 2021 - Science

NASA's delayed lunar dreams

Illustration of the Moon shrinking and vanishing into thin air.

Axios-Ipsos poll: Most Americans favor mandates

Aug 17, 2021 - World

Taliban declare "amnesty" and call on women to join new government

Taliban fighters stand guard along a roadside near the Zanbaq Square in Kabul on August 16

Satellite images show historic drought's impact on Colorado River in 1 year

These images show the low water levels at the Boulder Harbor Launch Ramp at Lake Mead in Boulder City, Nevada.

U.S. to advise COVID booster shots for most Americans at 8 months

Freshman Alana Gill receives the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at Stony Brook University on April 6

Lawsuit accuses Bob Dylan of sexually abusing girl, 12, in 1965

Photo of Bob DYLAN, performing on a BBC TV show in the U.K. in the 1960s
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