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As the last of the U.S. troops leave Afghanistan, one geopolitics expert thinks America’s longest war left us with one key lesson. “The one big lesson is that as rightfully angry and scared as Americans were after 9/11, we made Afghanistan into an almost existential threat to the American homeland — and it was never that,” Eurasia Group Founder Ian Bremmer told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “It was never a grade A national security priority for the U.S. It never merited a hundred-plus… Source link

Government officials and health experts are leaning on the private sector to lead the U.S. out of a COVID-19 surge caused by the highly infectious Delta variant. The reason lies largely in the fact that the federal government won’t issue a blanket mandate, and some states are actively fighting mitigation measures. “We don’t have the ability to function as a country,” said Dr. Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. We are facing a “formidable version of… Source link

Former President Donald Trump speaks at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Wednesday, July 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Donald Trump has launched a new broadside against Big Tech, with a fresh lawsuit claiming Facebook, Twitter and Google illegally banned him from their platforms. Trumpers might cheer, but the former president already has a losing record in his war against tech, and it’s likely to get worse. During the second half of his presidency, Trump turned verbal assaults… Source link

Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images Thanks to a sharp rise in crime in an affluent district in Atlanta, residents have mounted a campaign to secede from the majority Black city. The Buckhead district is known for its luxury high-rise apartments, lavish restaurants and trendy boutique shops, but a spike in robberies, aggravated assault and larceny over the past year has left many in the community dismayed. Saying that Atlanta has abandoned them, they’ve formed the Buckhead… Source link

President Biden on Friday awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration, to Ralph Puckett Jr., a 94-year-old Korean War veteran and retired Army colonel who was wounded in a battle against Chinese soldiers in Korea more than 70 years ago. “Today we are hosting a true American hero and awarding an honor that is long overdue,” Biden said during an East Room ceremony that was also attended by South Korean President Moon Jae-in. It was the first Medal of Honor awarded by… Source link

A recent Twitter trend indicated the office suite wars were over and Google Docs the clear winner. Find out how Jack Wallen came to this conclusion. Image: Google I spend a lot of time on Twitter. According to some, I spend too much of my precious existence on that social networking platform. However, during last week’s travels among the… Source link

The Rose Garden in April 2008, left, and May 2021. (Brooks Kraft/Corbis via Getty Images; via Twitter) WASHINGTON — Things are getting thorny in the White House Rose Garden. Just months after then-first lady Melania Trump unveiled her controversial redesign of the beloved space directly outside the Oval Office, some are calling for her successor, Jill Biden, to undo those changes and return the Rose Garden to the celebrated vision realized by the Kennedy administration in 1961. A petition… Source link

The New York Times An Early Promise Broken: Inside Biden’s Reversal on Refugees WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in the Oval Office, pleading with President Joe Biden. In the meeting, on March 3, Blinken implored the president to end Trump-era restrictions on immigration and to allow tens of thousands of desperate refugees fleeing war, poverty and natural disasters into the United States, according to several people familiar with the exchange. But Biden, already under… Source link

Facebook has turned the news back on. In Australia, the websites that were previously blocked by Facebook are now accessible and sharable once again. But the battle involving social networks and news is just beginning. Last week Australia’s government passed a law this week that offered a glimpse at the future for Facebook and media consumers around the world. The News Media Bargaining Code, passed Wednesday, effectively forces big tech platforms to pay publishers for news… Source link

Electric vehicles were the story of the year throughout 2020, but a battle in the EV industry could bust the market wide open in 2021. While Tesla was the one grabbing headlines in the United States, with over 700% gains in 2020… A Chinese competitor most folks have never heard of was already showing up Elon Musk’s EV juggernaut. Nio, “the Chinese Tesla,” has rolled out over 75,000 electric vehicles to date. And with their ET7 electric car boasting a record range of 621 miles on one… Source link