Pres. Biden last night in kabul , the United States ended 20 years of war in afghanistan, the longest war in american history. We completed one of the biggest air lives in history with more than 120,000 people evacuated to safety. That number is more than double what most experts thought were possible. No nation, no nation has ever done anything like it in all of history. Only the United States had the capacity, the will, and the ability to do it, and we did it today. The extraordinary success of this mission is due to the incredible skill, bravery, and selfless courage of the United States military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. For weeks, they risked their lives to get american citizens, afghans who helped us, citizens of our allies and partners and others on board planes and out of the country. And they did it facing the crush of enormous crowds seeking to leave the country. And they did it knowing isisk terrorists, sworn enemies of the taliban, were looking in th
In communities with lower vaccination rates. This remains a pandemic of the unvaccinated. We know getting more people vaccinated is the best way to end this pandemic. Thanks for our relentless efforts to get more shots in arms, we are making progress. In the last two weeks alone, nearly 7 million americans have rolled up their sleeves and gotten their first shot. That is the highest two week total since the beginning of june. Over the past month, we have also seen a 75 increase in the average daily number of 12 to 15yearolds getting vaccinated, particularly important as adolescents going back to school. Once the numbers from today are reported, we will have reached 200 million americans with at least their first shot. 200 million americans with at least one shot. That is a major milestone. Americans are continuing to step up, do their part, and get vaccinated. We are using every lever at our disposal to fight the virus, including ensuring state and local leaders have the tools and the
Filed. As The Post points out that deadline is a strong signal that Manhattan District attorney Cyrus Vance and Letitia James now working together after each has spent more than two years investigating trumps businesses are considering criminal charges against the company as an entity. In fact, this comes after Nbc News reported on friday that charges are not only likely, theyre expected as early as this week. At issue are the socalled Fringe Benefits that the Trump Organization doled out to its executives, including Cfo Allen Weisselberg and his family. That includes free rent Worth Hundreds of thousands of dollars at a Luxury Apartment at Central Park as well as free tuition, all of which could carry serious tax implications. While that might be the tip of the iceberg given how wideranging the investigation has been, trumps attorney says otherwise. He told politico that prosecutors in fact dont have Anything Else and that trump himself wont be charged, at least for now. So take that
In World War ii. Its purpose in World War ii was to train bomber crews, specifically b 17 crew. If you think about it, if youre going to learn to navigate a World War ii bomber over long distances and expanses of territory, South Dakota is really a great place to put the base and that was the beginning of ellsworth Air Force Base. The connection from World War ii to the cold war is really represented in our museum. The 44th Bomb Group was trained here at ellsworth Air Force Base, but then when the cold war came around that Bomb Group then became the 44th Missile Wing which was commanded out of ellsworth Air Force Base and that Missile Wing is really part of the cold War Narrative. When you think about cold war, you of course think about the b52s that were based here, you think about the ready response of strategic air command, but you also need to think about the men and women, Today Member and women, who are in these missile capsules underneath the ground waiting for the unthinkable a
These establishment offered gays and lesbians not only a place to socialize but served as venues for creating movements to push for more social and legal acceptance the Birmingham Alabama public library hosted this talk in 2016. In the days following the murders at the Ports Nightclub in orlando, like like a lot of people i was following the the news accounts and reading what i could find to read and trying to trying to make some sense of what had happened. And in doing that i came across an editorial online by nancy unger. And that short editorial helped me and understand the importance. Of Gay Bars and clubs in a way that i had never understood before of how important they are. As and you know as as gathering places and as places of activism and as places of great significance in american history, i decided that day that we had to bring nancy younger to birmingham. So that she could share her insights and her research with us and were very pleased that weve been able to do that. Nanc