#BREAKING | NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio declares a state of emergency in New York City

There is nothing disabled about the equipment that the United States gave to the Taliban. Just more made up lies!

Watch the video here: https://news.1rj.ru/str/PearFEED/851

🤔 Trump is apparently referring to Monday's statement by General Kenneth F. McKenzie, the head of US Central Command, who said that American troops disabled armoured vehicles, aircraft, and weapons systems that they abandoned at the Kabul Airport before the remaining American servicemen boarded the last flights out of Afghanistan

Check out some news you may have missed:

▪️The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that the state can remove Richmond's statue of Confederate Gen. Lee.

▪️North Carolina police said they have detained a suspect in a school shooting that left one student dead.

▪️The CDC is facing a backlash after 130 shelter dogs were left behind amid the US evacuation from Kabul.

▪️US Capitol Police forces are "closely monitoring" the upcoming 18 September protest that was organised in support of the January 6th rioters.

▪️More than 15 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been thrown away by US-based pharmacies and state governments, according to CDC data obtained by NBC News.

The New York City area was hit by major flooding on Wednesday night as what remained of Hurricane Ida swept across the city.

At least 14 people have died as a result of the flooding, media outlets have reported.

Almost all subway lines in New York had to be closed, while non-emergency vehicles were reported to be banned from roads.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a state of emergency in the city over the heavy rainfall on 1 September. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy did likewise as the state was also battered by the storm.

A Colorado grand jury has brought charges against three police officers and two paramedics in connection with the death of Elijah McClain.

In August 2019, McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, died after a confrontation with police. In what was ostensibly bid to calm him down, he was given a fatal dose of ketamine.

Aurora Police Officers Randy Roedema, Nathan Woodyard, and Jason Rosenblatt, as well as fire department paramedic Jeremy Cooper and Lt. Peter Cichuniec, were charged on Wednesday with a total of 32 counts, including manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

#URGENT: Biden says ready to use strategic US petroleum reserve to help areas hit by Hurricane Ida

What looked like a potential criminal offense turned out to be just a friendly trip.

Police in the US city of Midlothian responded to a report of a suspicious incident. A video showed a female approaching an SUV, when a passenger got out of it, grabbed her, and put the woman in the trunk. The car then drove off…

Hours later, police revealed that the woman hadn’t been taken against her will – and called the situation a “misunderstanding” 👀

🐬 A dolphin was spotted swimming in Louisiana flood waters after Hurricane Ida.

​The creature's dorsal fin pops above the water several times during the clip

The death toll from Hurricane Ida in the US states of New York and New Jersey has reached 22, media reported on Thursday.

At least eight people died in floodwaters in New York City, including a two-year-old boy; another 14 people were reportedly found dead in the state of New Jersey.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 US-Russia discussions on cybersecurity are ongoing, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger told reporters, with President Biden “is looking for action with regard to addressing cyber activity.”

She added that the US has seen a notable decrease in ransomware attacks, which could be for “a host of reasons,” and hoped that the trend continues.

😒 Democrats in San Francisco have come up with a "groundbreaking" idea that they hope will reduce gun violence in the city. They will pay high-risk individuals to not shoot anyone.

The Fellowship of Dream Keepers will pay 10 people at high risk of being in gunfights each month $300 to keep them from being involved in such crimes.

🔫 Great, now the Democrats are going to pay criminals in the hope that they won't commit crimes, but it looks like they will end up sponsoring the violence.

🇺🇸💲🇺🇦 The US is providing Ukraine with more than $45 million in additional humanitarian assistance for about 3.4 million people in need.

"This assistance from the United States enables our international humanitarian partners to further support many of the estimated 3.4 million people in need in Ukraine, including those displaced by the Russia-led conflict in eastern Ukraine," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday. 🇺🇸💲🇺🇦

🇺🇸🇦🇫 The US staged a covert operation in Afghanistan last month to evacuate hundreds of American nationals and at least 1,000 allied Afghan commandos from Afghanistan via a secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) compound outside Kabul, a New York Times probe has revealed. 🇦🇫🇺🇸