No current plans to deploy US military to Haiti: Sullivan
Biden is committed to facilitating flights so NATO allies can get their civilians out of Afghanistan: Sullivan
President Ghani is no longer a factor in Afghanistan: Sullivan
Biden has not spoken yet with other world leaders since Kabul fell to Taliban: Sullivan
Premature to address question if Taliban is legitimate government in Afghanistan: Sullivan
National security adviser Sullivan says US believes Kabul evacuation can go until August 31, talking to Taliban about timeline
US negotiating evacuation ‘timetable’ with Taliban: White House
National security adviser Sullivan says the Taliban has told US it will provide safe passage for civilians to reach the airport in Afghanistan
Winds drive nation’s largest wildfire toward California city
Firefighters faced more dangerously windy weather Tuesday as they struggled to keep the nation’s largest wildfire from moving toward a Northern California county seat and other small mountain communities.Forecasters issued red flag warnings of critical fire weather conditions including gusts up to 40 mph (64 kph) from late morning to near midnight.Winds spawned by a new weather system arrived Monday afternoon and pushed the Dixie Fire within a few miles of Susanville, population about 18,000, and prompted evacuation orders for the small nearby mountain community of Janesville, fire officials said.
Indian doctors are making a difference in every corner of America: AAPI president Anupama Gotimukula
Pentagon: US, Taliban coordinate as Kabul evacuation speeds
The US military is coordinating with the Taliban while accelerating the airlift of Americans and Afghan allies from the Kabul airport, and also bringing in additional US troops in a scramble to complete the evacuation in two weeks, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.The disclosure by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby that US commanders are speaking with Taliban commanders is an indication that the new rulers of Afghanistan, who swept to power after 20 years of war against the US-supported Kabul government, will not interfere with the evacuation. Kirby would not discuss details of the Taliban arrangement.”There are interactions multiple times a day” between US and Taliban commanders, he said.
NYC begins requiring proof of vaccination at eateries, gyms
Notices taped to the windows and front door of the Stop Inn, a diner in Queens, made it clear the eatery would comply with the city’s new edict against the coronavirus: All patrons dining indoors at restaurants, browsing works of art at museums or sweating it out at gyms must prove they have been vaccinated against Covid-19.The signs at the Stop Inn went up Monday evening, said a server, to give customers due notice that on Tuesday it would begin complying with the city’s latest effort to curtail the spread of the virus, particularly the troublesome and more contagious delta variant that has fueled a surge in infections and hospitalizations across the country.
NHC says tropical storm Grace about 295 MI (475 km) east-southeast of Grand Cayman; maximum sustained winds of 50 MPH (85 km/h)
Fred, wet and unwelcome, spawns twisters and flooding in US
Tropical Storm Fred weakened to a depression and spawned several apparent tornadoes in Georgia on Tuesday as it dumped heavy rains into the Appalachian mountains along a path that could cause flash floods as far north as upstate New York.One death was reported — a Las Vegas man whose car hydroplaned near Panama City, Florida, Monday night and overturned into a water-filled ditch, the Florida Highway Patrol said.Fewer than 30,000 customers were without power in Florida and Georgia after the storm crashed ashore late Monday afternoon near Cape San Blas in the Florida Panhandle. Emergency crews were repairing downed power lines and clearing toppled trees in Fred’s aftermath. Some schools and colleges in Florida, Alabama and Georgia cancelled Tuesday’s in-person classes due to the storm.
Dozens of residences evacuated as Minnesota wildfire spreads
No hostile threat or hostile interaction with Taliban: US military official
Kabul airport is secure, military flight and some civilian aircraft flying: US military official
Senior US military official says there will be more than 4,000 troops in Kabul by today
Fred drenches US Southeast; Grace again a tropical storm
US shipping 488,000 vaccine doses to Rwanda
The United States this week is shipping the first vaccine doses of the 500 million Covid-19 global sharing commitment it made at the Group of Seven summit in June.The US is sending 488,370 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Rwanda, of which 188,370 come as the first batch of the half-billion dose order placed by the US to share with lower and moderate-income countries.The White House says the balance of the doses will come from existing US surplus of shots.The US has already shared more than 110 million surplus doses this summer. The Pfizer order is expected to make available at least 200 million doses through the end of this year to be donated around the world, with 300 million more delivered in the first half of 2022.The announcement comes as the US is expected to recommend a third dose of the mRNA vaccines for all ages, approximately 8 months after the second dose, to boost protection against the coronavirus.
