On Friday President Biden delivered an address updating the public on the evacuation process in Afghanistan. During that speech he re-iterated his commitment to evacuate all Americans and as many Afghan American allies as possible before the August 31, 2021 deadline. He also indicated that conditions at and around the airport in Kabul are under control and that American forces have been able to effectively protect and evacuate Americans from the country. However, in a military briefing mere minutes after the President’s address, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin contradicted the President telling Congress that the Taliban have beaten and harassed Americans and prevented some Afghan American allies from getting to the airport.

Two people have died and 17 remain missing in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Fred that brought flooding to western North Carolina on Tuesday. The storm also took out at least 10 bridges and damaged thousands of homes and businesses. Search and rescue efforts continue as the east coast braces for another storm brewing in the Atlantic. Tropical Storm Henri is strengthening off the coast of North Carolina and it is believed that it will turn into a hurricane in the coming days.

Richard Sackler testified in a hearing for his family’s bankruptcy court case on Wednesday that he and the rest of his family were not responsible for the national opioid epidemic. The Sacklers had previously run Purdue Pharma which was responsible for the massive dispersal and irresponsible prescription of opioids to thousands of, especially low income, Americans. The Sacklers are now facing thousands of damages claims which are currently being resolved in bankruptcy court.

Justin Bullock, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] With the US withdrawal from Afghanistan a massive amount of US weaponry was left behind and is now under Taliban control. Early reports indicate that over $1 billion in weapons and miscellaneous goods are missing. In response, 25 Republican Senators wrote a letter to the Pentagon demanding a full […]

George Mason University has granted a professor an exemption to their vaccine mandate after a lawsuit claimed he had exemption status based on his previous SARS-CoV-2 infection and subsequent antibody development.

Democrat lawmakers came back to Texas on Thursday ending the months long stalemate over the new voting reform legislation that was initially put forward by Texas Republicans. With the Texas Democrats return, a quorum will not be reached meaning that the Texas voting reform law will move forward and should pass very easily. This voting bill joins a number of others across a number of historically Republican states.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A drip of foreign aid began to reach more rural areas of southwestern Haiti on Thursday, arriving five days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,000 and flattened tens of thousands of buildings into rubble. Hundreds of people lined up to receive provisions from the U.N. World Food Programme at a camp in the […]

Due to delays in visa processing, thousands of at-risk Afghans are currently stranded at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.