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CNN  —  Republicans and Democrats will release dueling documents on the deadly August 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan on Monday, as former President Donald Trump’s campaign seeks to make the decisions surrounding the exit a key issue in the final weeks before the presidential election. The release — after years of investigation by the Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee — of the report by Republican Chairman Rep Michael McCaul and a minority memorandum by Democratic Ranking Member Rep. Gregory Meeks underscore how partisan the debate over the frenzied US exit from Afghanistan has become. The reports also thrust…

Washington CNN  —  Vice President Kamala Harris has met more than 150 world leaders since becoming vice president. But a July sit-down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu felt different. Coming days after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and as Democrats were coalescing around her candidacy, perhaps no other sit-down would garner as much attention or carry as much weight. “We have a lot to talk about,” she said, before dismissing reporters — the exact same words Biden used to begin his own meeting. But Harris’ were delivered in a manner that said something entirely different.…

next time IU Columbus Volleyball September 21, Midway, Kentucky, noon (Seraland) September 24, Voice, 7pm Sept. 27 vs. St. Mary of the Woods, 7 p.m. (Nexus Park) IU Columbus men’s soccer Wednesday, Marian, 7 p.m. Saturday, Taylor, 7 p.m. Sept. 17 vs. IU Northwest, 6 p.m. IU Columbus women’s soccer Wednesday, St. Francis, 2 p.m. Sunday, Health Sciences and Pharmacy, 2 p.m. Sept. 17 vs. Cumberland (Tenn.), 3 p.m. IU Columbus Cross Country Saturday’s Hannover Invitational match: TBA October 4th at Terre Haute Twilight, TBA Preview Oct. 18 at River States, Angel Mounds, TBA Indiana University Football Saturday, UCLA, 7:30…

The impasse between DirecTV and Disney over a new broadcast deal is entering its second week and has intensified. DirecTV filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission on Saturday night, accusing Disney of negotiating in bad faith. The Disney Channel, which includes ESPN and ABC-owned stations in nine markets, has been removed from DirecTV starting the evening of September 1st. That means DirecTV customers will no longer be able to watch most college football games, including the men’s and women’s finals, and the final week of U.S. Open tennis matches. DirecTV filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission…

By Wayne Cole Asian stocks fall, Chinese inflation surprisingly soft SYDNEY – Asian stock markets fell on Monday after worries about a possible U.S. recession weighed on Wall Street, but U.S. stock futures rebounded from early losses and bond yields recovered from their lowest levels. Chinese consumer price data showed the Asian giant remains the driving force behind global deflation, with producer prices falling 1.8% in August compared with analysts’ expectations of a 1.4% decline. The consumer price index also rose less than expected this year, at 0.6%, though food prices rose almost entirely, with commodity prices rising just 0.2%,…

Linda Wang, 30, from Shanghai, bought a new 186-square-meter home in central Shanghai’s Xuhui district for 26.4 million yuan (US$3.7 million) on August 29 after selling two apartments with her family a year ago.It was Wang’s third home purchase in the city, emblematic of a new trend among the ultra-rich to snap up luxury apartments in the hope that a shortage of prime locations in first-tier cities will help them protect their wealth despite a national property slump.Xuhui’s home was one of 120 listed for sale on Auant that day, with an average price of 26.6 million yuan each, but…

After analyzing a variety of data, the national digital media company ranked Sheridan High School as the top high school in Wyoming and three other north-central Wyoming high schools in the top 25 in the state. U.S. News & World Report has ranked Sheridan High School the No. 1 high school in Wyoming based on data from the 2021-22 school year. U.S. News analyzed six indicators of school quality through information collected by RTI International, a global nonprofit social science research firm, and assigned a weighted score to each indicator. The categories and weights given were: college readiness 30%, college…

I’ve interviewed hundreds of local writers, and by local I mean primarily those who live in Southwest Ohio, but I’m generous in my interpretation: I also consider guests who live as far away as Cincinnati and Columbus to be locals. Book publicists often contact me about authors hosting events in Cleveland and emphasize the “local author” aspect, and I explain that Ohio is big and Cleveland isn’t local.People expect me to interview local authors. Why? Because they’re local! Local authors are great, but it’s impossible to talk to all of them. For every person I interview, there are 12 I…

We don’t know why this exists, but it does: a desktop NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 graphics card transformed into a luxury handbag worth $1,000. We’re not kidding. Check it out. View Gallery – 3 images The new GPU Perth comes equipped with the 2018 NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 graphics card based on the GK208 GPU with 2GB of VRAM, and is a 1.5 slot card with no external PCIe power connector. As for the Perth, the GT 730 comes in a beautiful translucent handbag, perfect for high-end female gamers.The two sides of the wallet have the GPU on one side…

Tyrone Billy Johnson (No. 13) and the Dallas Cowboys open the season this Sunday against the Cleveland Browns. (Sam Hodde/Getty Images)The 2024 NFL season is finally here. This afternoon, the Dallas Cowboys and Cleveland Browns will face off in the season opener, kicking off at 4:25 PM ET on FOX. But it’s not just the season debut for the Cowboys and Browns! Tom Brady will make his broadcast booth debut in this game, working as an analyst alongside play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhart. Are you ready to tune in? Here’s what you need to know about the Dallas Cowboys vs. Cleveland…