🇺🇸 At least 17 people died and more than 40 have been reported missing in a flood in the eastern US state of Tennessee, local media said.

The video shows the aftermath of floods in Tennesee.

❗️US President Biden said the US moved 11,000 people out of Afghanistan in the past 36 hours.

❗️Biden says 'yes' when asked if he would consider sanctions against Taliban, depending on context

"I don't trust anybody...": During Sunday press conference Biden was asked by a reporter if he trusts the Taliban.
The US president didn't manage to give a straight answer, instead he provided an odd revelation.

🤔 Is this feeling mutual for many Americans?

🇦🇫 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has apparently agreed with the "reality" that the US has to negotiate the evacuation of American citizens with the Taliban.

A total of at least 22 people were killed and 50 others remained missing after the flash floods swept through Tennessee, the New York Times reported on Sunday.

Twin toddlers are among the 21 people dead, NBC reported.

‼️ Shots fired near protest in Portland, US state of Oregon - reports

🇦🇫 An "oh sh**" moment: US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that nobody expected the Afghan government would fall in only 11 days

🗣 "It was a very rapid, fast-moving, fast-paced evolution," he said during an interview with ABC's "This Week."

According to the chief, early US intelligence projections on how long the Afghan government could hold off the Taliban after the US troop withdrawal were very different, ranging "from one to two years to several months"

But he still believes the planning of withdrawal was "acceptable and appropriate," giving the excuse that there were "no good options."

🇦🇫 🇺🇸 The US evacuation mission in Afghanistan is in full swing one week ahead of the August 31 deadline. FlightRadar24 data shows dozens of transport aircraft flying in and out of Kabul. US President Joe Biden said on Sunday that discussions were underway with US military officials about possibly extending the evacuation mission.

❗️Fire has reportedly broken out at Kabul airport

❗️🇺🇸The first COVID-19 related death in the United States may have occurred as early as in January 2020, several weeks before the country started logging virus-related fatalities in the original record, Mercury News reports.

Officially, the death of Patricia Dowd on February 6, 2020 in California's San Jose is considered the first COVID-19 related death in the US.

However, six death certificates from January 2020 recently discovered in six different states showed that the virus may have been circulating beyond the country's coastal states that were considered the earliest hotspots for COVID-19.

☎️ Russian Security Council Secretary, US National Security Advisor discuss situation in Afghanistan by phone

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🤔 US aware of Taliban’s desire to have evacuation mission complete by August 31

🥴 Afghan vice president says difference between Taliban and Al Qaida is like ‘Coke and Pepsi’

✈️ US evacuated total of 37,000 people from Afghanistan since August 14

❗️Biden administration believes US has time to get every American out of Afghanistan by 31 August

The US military has successfully conducted its first live-fire test of the Iron Dome anti-missile system in New Mexico, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced.

This was the first live fire trial in which US assets shot down targets using the Iron Dome defense system, which is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and shells.