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Gold Star families blast Biden for checking watch during ceremony for fallen  New York Post Family of Marine killed in Afghanistan slams Biden meeting as scripted, a ‘total disregard’ to Marine’s death  Fox News Father of Marine killed in Kabul says Biden

Former President Donald Trump says he will return to Iowa, adding grist to 2024 speculation  Des Moines Register

An homage to ‘Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Screw’ in honor of the singer’s latest Margaritaville resort in NYC’s Times Square, which happens to house a synagogue on its bottom floors

While New Orleans largely escaped catastrophic flooding during the storm, LaPlace and other nearby communities were not so lucky.

India’s economy grew at a record pace in the latest quarter, its economy still digging out from one of the deepest recessions to hit any major economy during the pandemic.

Taliban fighters and their supporters rallied across Afghanistan to celebrate the end of 20 years of foreign military presence, pledging to implement strict Islamic rule as ordinary Afghans grappled with the uncertain future ahead.

Consumer prices were 3% higher in August than a year earlier, providing an early test of the European Central Bank’s resolve to let the inflation rate exceed its target if policy makers believes that will be temporary.

Some Afghans welcome their new Taliban rulers, while many others remember the excesses of the harsh ideology they enforced when they last seized power in the 1990s. (Image credit: Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi/AP)

While many are focusing on getting as many people out of Afghanistan as possible, Republicans are already promising hearings for the mistakes that were made and focusing on what went wrong. One report from Vanity Fair reporter Adam Ciralsky revealed

Whether you know it as vacation season, hurricane season or wildfire season, August is a time when our natural surroundings can take on outsize importance in our daily lives. The same is true of this month’s best new TV shows,