URGENT | 'The Wire' actor Michael K. Williams found dead in New York City apartment

❗🌀The death toll from Hurricane Ida has now reportedly reached 68.🌀❗

🇺🇸🧱🇲🇽 After scrapping former President Donald Trump’s border wall, President Joe Biden promised to create a technology-based ‘smart’ wall, with steel and concrete to be replaced by AI, biometrics, facial recognition, drones, infrared cameras, iris scanning, DNA analysis, radar and motion sensors. Rights groups have urged Biden to reconsider the Orwellian plans.

👁 Federal authorities have begun to install Autonomous Surveillance Towers – a cutting-edge camera system powered by solar energy, which uses artificial intelligence to provide 24 hour-a-day surveillance of the movement of human beings and vehicles anywhere within a two mile (3.2 km) radius.

❓💥 "Unknown phenomena" of some sort has occurred in Montgomery County, Tennessee late last Saturday.

The US Geological Survey reportedly did not register an earthquake in the area in question.

Fort Campbell – a US Army base located near Clarksville – being on a four-day weekend because of the Labor Day holiday, "it did not appear to be [caused by] training or an exercise".

🇦🇫📝🇺🇸 Conflicting reports coming from Afghanistan allege that American citizens and green card holders are stuck at the Mazar-i-Sharif airstrip.

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🚢🇺🇸 The U.S. Navy on Sunday identified the 5 sailors now presumed dead after a more than 72-hour search and rescue mission was called off following their helicopter crash off the coast of San Diego, California.

⚖️🚼💥 On September 1, a restrictive anti-abortion law went into effect in the Lone Star State, making it illegal for abortions to be performed if any fetal cardiac activity is detected, which normally happens about six weeks into a pregnancy.

The Satanic Temple, a religious group, is suing the state of Texas over its recently-imposed abortion restrictions, citing religious freedom as justification, with the organization emphasizing it is ready to "assist” any of its members who wish to challenge the law.

❗️💲😷 Under Congress' Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, millions of Americans were offered additional unemployment support during the pandemic with augmented federal unemployment benefits. These programs expire nationally on Monday, cutting enhanced unemployment benefits for some 7.5 million jobless workers, according to data from the Century Foundation.

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ukraine has invited the United States to sign an agreement on a free trade zone, and is also constantly raising the issue of obtaining a visa-free entry regime for Ukrainian citizens, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.

🇦🇫✈️🇺🇸 In the wake of the US military pullout from Afghanistan, critics across the political spectrum have blasted the American president for his decision to continue the withdrawal, more so for labeling the US mission a victory. Now, many critics are urging him to stay away from 9/11 memorials on the 20th anniversary of the 2001 attacks.

As the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks draws near, some family members of 9/11 victims are urging US President Joe Biden to steer clear of memorials, as they consider his decision to continue the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan disrespectful.

BREAKING | President of Human Rights Campaign fired after being named in Cuomo sexual harassment probe

🇺🇸🚀 NASA has announced that the Perseverance rover succeeded in its second attempt at collecting rock samples on the Mars after an initial effort to collect samples proved unsuccessful.

🇺🇸🇦🇫 US President Joe Biden admitted on Monday that he was nowhere near to recognizing the Taliban as the new Afghan government, underscoring the uncertainties that lie ahead in the war-torn nation's future.

🗣 "It will be very dependent on [the Taliban's] behavior, and whether they deliver on what the expectations are of the global community,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki explained.

🔥 Prior to the Taliban's swift takeover in late August and the US invasion in 2001, only three countries recognized the militant group as a governing body - those countries include Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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▪️President of the Human Rights Campaign Alphonso David was reportedly fired after a story disclosing that he guided Andrew Cuomo on how to handle sexual harassment charges.

▪️The Taliban is ready to have relations with the US, the movement's spokesperson has told Sputnik.

▪️A son of a 9/11 victim has urged Biden to stay away from memorials on the looming anniversary.

▪️Secretary of State Blinken says the US plans to organise new evacuation flights from Kabul.

▪️A George Floyd protester charged with attempted murder after firing on Minneapolis cops has been acquitted of all counts.

😡 Canadian PM Justin Trudeau was hit by small stones during a campaign stop in Ontario on Monday.

The prime minister was returning to a bus after visiting a brewery, when protesters targeted him on a campaign stop ahead of the general election. He wasn't injured as a result.

#BREAKING: Taliban names key ministers in new Afghan government

⚡️🇦🇫The Taliban (banned in Russia) has announced its new temporary Cabinet. Here are some key appointments:

🔹 acting prime minister – head of the Taliban leadership council, Hasan Akhund;

🔹 acting foreign minister – senior Taliban member, participant of the talks in Doha, Amir Khan Muttaqi;

🔹acting defense minister – deputy Taliban leader, Mohammad Yaqoob;

🔹acting interior minster – Sirajuddin Haqqani, deputy of the Taliban supreme commander.

😳 Imagine being at a college football game, and the crowd goes, ‘F*ck Joe Biden!’

This video, recorded during a game between the Texas A&M Aggies and the Kent State Golden Flashes, was posted online on Sunday, and it is not the only of its kind.

Similar chants were filmed at Coastal Carolina and Virginia Tech games.

🙅 The Biden Administration is not rushing to recognize the newly announced government formed by the Taliban, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday.

"There is no rush to recognition [of the Taliban]. It is really going to be dependent on what steps the Taliban takes. The world will be watching, the United States included", Psaki said at a press briefing. "I don't have a timeline for you. It depends on what behaviour they exhibit on the ground".