Disaster: The image of the day out of Afghanistan yesterday was of a body falling from the undercarriage of an American C-17 cargo plane as it departed Kabul airport. It recalls desperate Vietnamese clinging to the skids of American helicopters and …

   After 20 years and billions of dollars spent by the US to bolster a free and democratic Afghanistan, the Muslim fundamentalist Taliban have taken control of the presidential palace after the country’s president Ashraf Ghani fled to Tajikistan. Interior Minister Abdul Sattar …

Afghanistan Falling: The US embassy in Afghanistan has ordered staff to destroy sensitive documents and computers, a sure sign that the State Department believes the country will fall to the Taliban.   Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, a retired admiral, has kept his cool …

  The worldwide pandemic has already caused 205 million cases and over 16 million deaths.   One of the resurgent hotspots in the US is Florida, where nearly 18,000 new cases were reported yesterday, by far the most of any state. The Department …

Cuomo Resigns: Facing certain impeachment and bowing to a hopeless political future, New York’s third-term Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation yesterday in the wake of last week’s devastating attorney general’s report that found he sexually harassed 11 women in his …

Handsy Andy: In continuing fallout from last week’s devastating sexual harassment report on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Roberta Kaplan, a nationally prominent lawyer who tried to help Cuomo discredit one of his accusers, resigned from Time’s Up, the organization founded by Hollywood …

Handsy Andy: The formerly anonymous woman who filed a criminal complaint against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke openly to CBS News and The Albany Times Union newspaper, telling them that “What he did to me was a crime. He broke the law.”    The interview aired …

Handsy Andy: After having been found by an investigation to have sexually harassed eleven women who worked with him, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s political life in on the bubble, but he’s denying it all and fighting.   Shortly after the release …

Viral News: A month after President Biden’s target date, the US reached the goal of 70 percent of the population vaccinated against Covid-19.   The vaccination campaign was set back by reluctance and resistance by some in the population — particularly some …

Viral News: With the state’s governor fighting and even banning mask mandates and other Covid safety precautions, Florida yesterday broke its own one-day record with 10,207 people hospitalized for confirmed cases of COVID-19.     Florida’s previous record of 10,170 was set on July …