🇺🇸🇦🇫 The last remaining US forces in Afghanistan could only describe the scenes surrounding their departure as “apocalyptic.”

The final US Air Force crew in Afghanistan contended with a rapidly approaching Taliban and a lack of the technological and logistical support that usually defines the US military. ✈🇺🇸

🎙🗣 Joe Rogan says he tested positive for COVID-19.

💊 The unvaccinated celebrity says he used other treatments to fight the virus and now feels 'great', adding that he only had 'one bad day'. 😷

🇺🇸 A Defense Department spokesperson told Sputnik that the reports of US troops leaving some of its military posts in Syria are not true, adding that the US military's mission there has not changed. 🇸🇾

🇺🇸 ⚖ GOP Representative Liz Cheney (Wyoming) has been selected as vice chair for the investigation into the January 6th Capitol insurrection 🔥

😷 The newly-identified COVID-19 Mu strain poses no immediate threat to the US, the Biden administration's chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said at a news briefing on Thursday.

🥼 Mu, also officially named B.1.621 by scientists, was added to the World Health Organization's list of variants "of interest" on Monday, the agency's weekly COVID-19 epidemiology report revealed on Tuesday.

🧪 "This variant has a constellation of mutations that suggests that it would evade certain antibodies, not only monoclonal antibodies, but vaccine- and convalescent serum-induced antibodies," the US COVID-19 czar added. "But there isn’t a lot of clinical data to suggest that, it is mostly laboratory in-vitro data."

✈ The FAA has grounded all future Virgin Galactic flights until it finishes an investigation in a mishap on the company's much-publicized July 11th flight. The spacecraft went off trajectory and out of its designated airspace for nearly two minutes as pilots ignored warnings. 🚀

❗Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appeals ruling that schools can require student face masks, says it’s important to let parents opt out. 😷

⚖ The Supreme Court has allowed the Texas anti-abortion law to stand in a 5-4 decision.🤰

🖋 Signed into law in May by Texas Governor Greg Abbott but tangled up in legal fights since then, the so-called “heartbeat” law bans pregnant people from getting abortions if a series of electrical impulses where the fetus’ heart would form is detectable. ♥️👶

❗A grand jury has indicted a former Georgia district attorney, alleging that she showed "favor and affection" to Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael, the men suspected of killing Ahmaud Arbery last year. ⚖

⚖🚨 The US Marshals Service announced on Thursday the arrest of Benjamin Dagley, a 54-year-old Ohio man who was identified as the individual filmed harassing an MSNBC reporter in Gulfport, Mississippi, during national coverage of Hurricane Ida. 🎤🌀📺

🏥 At least 10 National Guard service members headed to Louisiana to assist with Hurricane Ida 🌀 relief efforts were involved in a multi-car wreck in Mississippi after their vehicle was cut off. 

🚛 The military convoy was traveling southbound on Interstate 55 near where it splits with Interstate 220 in Ridgeland when a civilian vehicle "darted out" in front, causing the lead vehicle to slam on the brakes.

💥 That resulted in six military vehicles crashing into each other. The driver of the civilian car left the scene.❗

❗️A number of people have reportedly been trapped after an entire building collapsed in Philadelphia.

According to the media, at least two elderly people have been injured in the incident, which took place at about 22:00 along the 2200 block of North Front Street in Philadelphia's Kensington district. Authorities are now investigating what caused the building's collapse.

President Joe Biden is heading to Louisiana on Friday to survey damage done by Hurricane Ida.

According to the White House, Biden will survey storm damage and meet state and local officials. He will begin his tour of the state in New Orleans and is expected to meet John Bel Edwards, the Democrat Governor of Louisiana.

"I think getting eyes on the damage in person - rather than reading about it, rather than hearing about it, rather than seeing it on TV - is really important. Because this is going to be a marathon, and we’re going to need a lot of help from our federal partners for a long time to come. And we need some of that help immediately," Edwards said at a briefing on Wednesday.

🇺🇸🇮🇳India and the US have signed a project agreement to co-develop air-launched unmanned vehicles for their air forces.

According to India's defence ministry, the agreement was signed on 30 July as part of the Defence Technology and Trade Initiative which has been described as "a significant step towards deepening defence technology cooperation between India and the US".

📱After a wave of criticism, Apple has delayed its plans to introduce a “child safety feature” on iPhones.

Last month Apple announced the CSAM scanning feature that would check the iPhones and personal computers of customers in the United States to flag up images popular with paedophiles.

However, critics said the tool could be used as a tool of censorship for searching for content related to political activism or to dissent. Apple had insisted it would allow security researchers to verify its claims but on Friday the company finally backed down and put its plans on hold.

🗣 "When we go back to Washington, we will be putting Roe v. Wade codification on the floor of the House, to make sure that women everywhere have access to the reproductive health that they need," Pelosi said in a news conference.

She announced the House will vote on legislation to codify Roe v. Wade in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to deny an emergency appeal filed by abortion providers to block the Texas heartbeat bill.

🤔 Is she acting on the interests of women or Democrats?

The infamous “QAnon Shaman,” Jacob Chansley, pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding, a felony, in a plea agreement with prosecutors for his role in the January 6 Capitol riots.

His sentencing is set for November 17; he faces up to 20 years in prison.

Who are all of the people coming into our Country? In addition to the Southern Border, with millions of unvetted people pouring in, we now have tens of thousands of totally unvetted Afghans, who many say are not the ones that should have come in. How many terrorists are among them? How much money is this costing? With all of these developments, our Country is more unsafe now than ever before—and many Americans are still left behind!

🇺🇲 President Biden changes position, now says life doesn't begin at conception...

😳 On Friday Biden appeared to change the position he had just six years ago on whether life begins at conception.

🗣"I’m prepared to accept that at the moment of conception there’s human life," he previously stated.

⚖ His comments came during a press conference where he discussed Texas' recently enacted abortion law. 🤰

💥🚚🇦🇫 Wow... by the looks of it, the Taliban seems thrilled with all the "left behind" US military equipment, courtesy of President Joe Biden. 🙃🇺🇸