🇦🇫People with the white flag of the Taliban (banned in Russia) are celebrating the American withdrawal from Afghanistan in the the second biggest Afghan city of Kandahar.

A congressional committee probing the January 6 Capitol riot may request Donald Trump’s phone records, CNN has reported, citing unnamed sources.

Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Eric Trump are also likely to have their phones checked, the sources said.

The requests have already been sent to telecommunications giants such as AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular.

👀 After giving a speech on the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken made it quick and simply refused to take any questions from reporters.

If you ignore it, maybe it will go away…

US President Biden gives a press briefing on ending the war in Afghanistan.

Watch LIVE: https://youtu.be/3AXj6dVhXrI

In an address to the nation on the end of the war in Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden calls the evacuation effort from Kabul an "extraordinary success."

🐺 A series of coyote attacks in Vancouver’s Stanley Park has led an expert to warn that their unusually aggressive behaviour could be due to the ingestion of drugs.

Officials have warned the public to stay out of the park following three coyote attacks over a four-day period, most recently on Saturday, when a man out walking was bitten on the leg

🦡 A New York City animal rescuer has responded to a three-story building in Brooklyn to rescue a raccoon hanging by its tail from an air vent near the roof.

A guardian of the galaxy has gotten into trouble

🇦🇫 More than 500 Afghan journalists who were employed by the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) remain in Afghanistan.

🗣 “The US State Department claimed they evacuated their local employees when in reality they abandoned hundreds of USAGM journalists and their families, ”the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul said in a press release.

🗣 “Some of these journalists were given express assurances by the Biden Administration that they would be treated as locally employed staff - but were not.”

🇺🇸 ⚜️New Orleans has imposed a curfew in the wake of Hurricane Ida to stop the looting and to maintain public safety, city officials said.

🏘 Home prices continued to rise in June, reaching the highest single-month increase since S&P Dow Jones Indices began recording them in 1987. While some experts believe the spike is the result of purchases delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, others suggest flight from city apartments is helping to drive the boom.

❓ Is the US headed toward another housing bubble?

🐓 A piece of raw chicken ended up on a baggage carousel at Seattle Airport.

The chicken was apparently in a cooler in checked baggage, but at some point it burst out of the container and ended up as a mass of raw meat on the baggage claim carousel at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

😀 Chicken Run gone wrong

😰 The resentful customer argued with staff about British Columbia's mask policy before unzipping his pants and desecrating the DQ service counter.

A covid dissident and his weapon of choice

📨 Biden press conference summary:

▪️ Biden calls US withdrawal from Afghanistan "an extraordinary success";

▪️ Biden admitted that he was counting on 300,000 Afghan government troops when deciding to withdraw from Afghanistan - but he miscalculated;

▪️ Biden said the US was ready for the collapse of the Afghan government;

▪️ Biden said that there is no deadline for the evacuation of 100-200 American citizens remaining in Afghanistan, and the United States is ready to assist them in leaving;

▪️ Biden said that he had to fulfill the agreement with the Taliban (the movement is banned in Russia as a terrorist movement), which Trump concluded - because the alternative was war;

▪️ The only US interest in Afghanistan is to prevent it from becoming a staging ground for terrorists, Biden reiterated;

▪️ Biden addresses ISIS - Wilayat Khorasan terrorists accused of the recent bloody attack on Kabul airport: 'We are not done with you yet'

Shana, you are 100% correct. If I were President, your wonderful and beautiful son Kareem would be with you now, and so would the sons and daughters of others, including all of those who died in the vicious Kabul airport attack. Civilians should have been brought out first, along with our $85 billion of equipment, with the Military coming out very safely after all was clear. I love you, and I love Kareem.

#URGENT | US navy helicopter crashes off San Diego coast, Pacific Fleets says

🇺🇸 A US Navy helicopter crashed off the coast of San Diego, California, search and rescue operations are under way, the US Pacific Fleet said in a statement on Twitter.

#BREAKING | Putin: America's 20-year presence in Afghanistan only led to tragedies

A flood caused by Hurricane Ida has placed a cow in the tree. Rescuers are seen in the video freeing the animal.

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Two senior Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine officials are due to leave the agency.

Marion Gruber, director of the Office of Vaccines Research and Review, who has worked with the agency for 30 years, plans to retire on 31 October.

Her deputy, Philip Krause, is set to quit in November after more than a decade working there.

While the official reason for their sudden departure is unknown, the biotech outlet Endpoints cited an unnamed former FDA official as saying that Gruber and Krause are quitting because "they're frustrated that [the] CDC and their ACIP [Advisory Committee on Immunisation] are involved in decisions that they think should be up to the FDA".