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White House defends letting billions in military equipment fall into Taliban hands

Alleged sex assault on school band trip prompts legal split

The 22-year-old MAGA influencer running Rudy Giuliani's communications team has been replaced by a former Hooters spokesperson

Lorry drivers told to take care after bridge struck

England captain Kane has 'clear conscience' over Man City transfer saga

New top story on Hacker News: System76 Pangolin “Linux-first” laptop with AMD internals now in stock

New top story on Hacker News: Apple just banned a pay equity Slack channel but lets fun dogs channel lie

New top story on Hacker News: Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours

New top story on Hacker News: LiveCode drops its Open Source Support

Taliban demand US diplomats return to Kabul

Anti-vaxxers forced a mobile COVID-19 vaccine site in Georgia to shut down after threatening health workers: official

Southwest pilots fed up with pandemic working conditions slam management for sheltering at home while they were 'crammed into hotel shuttles' and cockpits for long hours

Vaccine mandates are nothing new. Here's how they've been used throughout history.

Firefighters say the raging Caldor Fire that sparked evacuations in the Lake Tahoe region may not be fully contained until mid-September

GOP demands accountability over Afghan failings

Police say Instagram influencer Miss Mercedes Morr was killed in a suspected murder-suicide

New top story on Hacker News: 79 Bay Area startups from Y Combinator's biggest Demo Day batch yet

New top story on Hacker News: Startup Bootstrapping Plan

2 killed, at least 10 injured after Mississippi highway collapses

Is rural America becoming a new Confederacy?

Remote workers from San Francisco flocked to Lake Tahoe during the pandemic. Now, thousands of people are being forced to evacuate as the Caldor fire bears down on the serene Northern California enclave.

Amid violent reprisals, Afghans fear the Taliban's 'amnesty' was empty

Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill tests positive for Covid-19

Former British soldier stranded in Kabul plans escape for 400 out of Afghanistan

Everything You Need to Know About Renting Furniture for a Short-Term Living Space

Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers roast Delta's CEO for refusing to call the virus by name: 'He said from now on, our airline is pronounced Del-TAY''

Kieran Culkin and his family spent the pandemic in the same 1-bedroom New York City apartment he's lived in since he was 19

Lithium fuels hopes for revival on California's largest lake

I wrote about why I got a COVID vaccination. Then I was fired from my job.

Man gets life sentence in 2018 killing of Mollie Tibbetts

Tucker Carlson Lays Into Bisexual Governor Because She Wed a Man

WATCH: Dramatic videos of Hurricane Ida ravaging Louisiana exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina

Rand Paul says scientists won't study horse-deworming drug ivermectin's use as a potential COVID cure because of their 'hatred for Trump'

Taliban offered Kabul to US, but Americans said no: report

Afghan left behind by UK: I'm fighting to stay alive

Leeds close to £30m deal for Man Utd winger James

New top story on Hacker News: Creating a VPN Gateway with a Unikernel Running WireGuard

New top story on Hacker News: Enterprise Software Projects Killed the Software Developer

New top story on Hacker News: Fibonacci Sphere

Driver disregards school bus’s stop arm, kills high-school student, Indiana police say

Biden and Congress are setting 'a 5-alarm fire' by letting federal unemployment benefits expire in a week as Delta surges

College Senior Who Bragged About Capitol Riot 'Infamy' Takes Plea Deal

Lightning captured near Ida's eye before landfall

The Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices – a lesson in life-and-death consequences of data privacy

Vetting Afghan Refugees

British number one Konta pulls out of US Open

Ida: Exclamation point on record onslaught of US landfalls

Ted Cruz says the Biden administration's decision to vacate Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan was a 'political decision' that 'proved catastrophic'

Flames consume high-rise in Milan; residents evacuated

Ida makes its way into Houma

Crews battle to protect Lake Tahoe region from wildfire

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is self-isolating

Jamaican reggae icon Lee 'Scratch' Perry dies aged 85

New top story on Hacker News: Air Independent Propulsion Could Create Silent Killer Submarines

New top story on Hacker News: Programming, Math, Science: A list with links to useful resources

New top story on Hacker News: To China's chagrin, Japan-Taiwan talks could pave the way for closer ties

An 88-year-old professor in Georgia resigned in the middle of class because a student refused to wear a mask over her nose: 'That's it, I'm retired'

Man grabs gun from dying 24-year-old son’s hands after shootout with off-duty NYPD officers and opens fire

Watch this live video of Hurricane Ida striking New Orleans

Hurricane Hunters fly through Ida's Eye

Among those not surprised by ex-Norfolk Sheriff Bob McCabe’s conviction? His only sibling and oldest son

New top story on Hacker News: Patera – Dynamic Documents

New top story on Hacker News: Spherical Panoramas

New top story on Hacker News: The Orbit of Planet Nine

New top story on Hacker News: Backblaze: “Why does the private key still need to be sent to your datacenter?”

Caught on camera: Inside the eye of Hurricane Ida as it approaches Louisiana

Biden pays respects to US troops killed in Afghanistan

Hellish living conditions are the new Kabul reality

Afghanistan: US drone strike 'eliminates airport bomb threat'

New top story on Hacker News: Vega Strike

New top story on Hacker News: Familia Toledo: The most inexpensive computer USD $99.00

Slain Marine who cradled baby at Kabul airport loved her job

Mountain lion killed after attacking child in California

Evidence of extensive corrosion in collapsed condo

Snowdon: Amputee Paul Ellis' 13-hour crawl to reach summit

New top story on Hacker News: Life After White Collar Crime

New top story on Hacker News: Inductive Reasoning Aptitude

New top story on Hacker News: LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves

New top story on Hacker News: This Is Water (2005)

New top story on Hacker News: Getting started with large format film photography

A Black former McDonald's manager was denied requests to avoid shifts with a coworker who repeatedly used racist language including the N-word, according to a lawsuit

Manchester City 5-0 Arsenal: Gunners suffer third league defeat in a row

New top story on Hacker News: Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted)

New top story on Hacker News: Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [livestream]

New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: Kalam Labs (YC S21) – Science games and live game streaming for kids

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Simple tool for creating commandline bar charts

New top story on Hacker News: Silicon Valley's biggest fraud is on trial

New top story on Hacker News: How a comment in Hacker News led Girish Mathrubootham to create Freshworks(2019)

Missing Indiana teen Aaliyah Ramirez found safe in Florida

Erie County Board of Elections denies Byron Brown's petition to be on November ballot

A new set of fangs, another nightmare encounter for ‘terrified’ Lake Norman woman

Afghan evacuations wind down at Kabul airport

New top story on Hacker News: Cold Call

New top story on Hacker News: The Electromagnetic Force of Fridge Magnets

‘Just Kill Her ASAP’: Jealous College Student Accused of Wild Plot to Murder Her Lover’s Wife

Congressman Who Flew to Kabul Demands Resignations in D.C.

COVID-19 statistics: What to know about the delta variant, cases among children

WH: Biden told to brace for more Kabul attacks

Stop talking about impeachment and bring US troops home from Afghanistan, Sen. Graham

Hurricane Ida: New Orleans braces for possible direct hit

Westminster double murder: Man, 49, arrested

New top story on Hacker News: The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak, by Daniel Ingalls, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: LED Light Spectrum Enhancement with Transparent Pigmented Glazes (2016)

New top story on Hacker News: An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming

New top story on Hacker News: Turning satellite imagery into wall art

COVID-19 surge pummels Hawaii and its native population

Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton says it's 'impossible' for Mike Pompeo to 'rewrite history' on his negotiations with the Taliban

U.S. reportedly gave Taliban the names of Americans and Afghan allies: 'Appalling and shocking'

More corrosion in Miami condo collapse

New top story on Hacker News: Buoyant wants to solve middle-mile delivery with cargo airships

New top story on Hacker News: When Do Investors Freak Out? Machine Learning Predictions of Panic Selling [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Brussels battles old prejudices as it frees unloved river from its vault

New top story on Hacker News: 40M People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast

New top story on Hacker News: What Made Battle of Blair Mountain Largest Labor Uprising in American History

Afghanistan: Pen Farthing through Kabul airport security with animals

New sinking in tilting San Francisco high-rise halts repair

Capitol Police officers sue Trump, allies over insurrection

Tropical system could rapidly intensify into a major hurricane before making landfall on the Gulf Coast

12 U.S. troops, numerous Afghan civilians killed in Kabul airport attack

Scene: suspect shoots self in Adams County, Pennsylvania State Police say

Former Trump intelligence chief Richard Grenell calls for airstrikes in Afghanistan

2 US lawmakers' Kabul trip prompts questions, criticism

New top story on Hacker News: Work Hard (By Terence Tao)

New top story on Hacker News: My Tungsten Cube

New top story on Hacker News: Seeking Early Signals of Dementia in Driving and Credit Scores

New top story on Hacker News: Monitoring Raspberry Pi Devices Using Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana

New top story on Hacker News: “Does Induced Demand Apply to Bike Lanes?” and Other Questions

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?

New top story on Hacker News: Why isn’t there an English Academy? Blame the plague

Majority of Democrats, Supermajority of Americans Say Afghanistan Withdrawal Handled ‘Badly’

Chicago police union says 'hell no' to Lightfoot's COVID-19 vaccine mandate

Taliban spokesman ‘strongly condemns’ Kabul airport bombings

Pritzker says school closures possible if vaccine protection wanes

The Taliban have access to US military aircraft. Now what happens?

Oklahoma governor candidate charged with kidnapping, sexual assault

She had COVID in a Florida hospital. Back home, she found her husband dead — of COVID

Official says Caldor Fire "has simply outpaced us" as it nears Lake Tahoe

Another Root century punishes India as England amass huge lead

State Department Reveals the Number of Americans Left to Be Evacuated from Afghanistan

Thai police chief, known as Jo Ferrari, wanted over viral torture clip

The House seat of one of the GOP's 'most prominent' Trump critics is on the chopping block

Moderna says vaccine highly effective after six months in application for full approval

House moderates provide even more leverage to Joe Manchin on reconciliation

Father shot and killed by guard over parking argument, officials say

He was walking in a Florida park — then came a gator. It’s still out there, police say

The Taliban have access to US military aircraft. Now what happens?

Here are the companies mandating vaccines for all or some employees

Afghanistan: UK's Kabul evacuation going at 'significant pace'

New top story on Hacker News: Bashly – Create beautiful bash scripts from simple YAML configuration

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 NeuralHash Collision Demo

New top story on Hacker News: Surveillance of the Internet Backbone

New top story on Hacker News: Data Brokers Sell Access to the Backbone of the Internet

New top story on Hacker News: The Myth of a Superhuman AI

Washington man says he killed teenager in self-defense after discovering she was transgender

New York Governor Adds 12,000 COVID Deaths to Predecessor Cuomo’s Count

Taliban spokesperson says Afghans should stop attempting to reach Kabul's airport

Taliban could sell data about U.S. military operations to China, former State Department official warns

Beshear pulls Kentucky’s mask mandate

A Trump vaccine counterfactual

Extinction Rebellion: Protesters block London's Oxford Circus

Media watchdog Ofcom quits Stonewall diversity scheme

Covid jab response low for some immunosuppressed people

Unite union expected to elect first female leader

Charlie Watts: The life of a Rolling Stone in pictures

New top story on Hacker News: Nelua Programming Language

New top story on Hacker News: Lignum Nephriticum

New top story on Hacker News: How does one get close to mastering software engineering?

New CDC chart highlights significantly reduced hospitalization risk for vaccinated

Indiana man survives grizzly attack in Denali National Park

Biden says 'discussions' are under way on keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan after Aug. 31

Centrist Democrats win concessions ahead of budget vote

Oklahoma man running for governor kidnaps and rapes campaign job applicant, police say

Minnesota mosque bomber identifies as trans woman and seeks lower sentence due to 'internal conflict'

'We are stranded': US mother trapped in Afghanistan makes emotional plea to Biden for help

California’s Caldor fire burns 100,000 acres as it rips through small towns

Reports: Murphy to announce teacher vaccine mandate, state travel restrictions

New top story on Hacker News: Why didn’t any Wall Street CEOs go to jail after the financial crisis? (2019)

New top story on Hacker News: Golang vs. C# (.NET 5.0) at Benchmarks Game

New top story on Hacker News: I kept honking at a sleeping Tesla driver on the freeway, but she didn’t wake up

Firefighters work to keep California fire from Lake Tahoe

‘Praying they will find her.’ New FBI search for Crystal Rogers starts in subdivision

White House: Taliban setting up more entry points beyond perimeter to stop ISIS-K attacks

Can You Have Too Many Chairs?

Missing Ohio girl, 4, found dead in pond near home

Florida school mask mandate power struggle goes before judge

American Airlines deploys planes to help with evacuation in Afghanistan

Best Mattresses for Side Sleepers

California’s Caldor fire burns 100,000 acres as it rips through small towns

Anti-Taliban resistance group says it has thousands of fighters

Another Kentucky school district shuts down, with no remote learning, due to COVID-19

New top story on Hacker News: Plane damaged after being hit by York police drone at Buttonville Airport

New top story on Hacker News: High-accuracy thrust measurements of the EMDrive, elimination of false-positives

New top story on Hacker News: How I Experience Web Today

New top story on Hacker News: A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead

New top story on Hacker News: How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes

Biden says 'discussions' are under way on keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan after Aug. 31

Manchin warns House Democrats not to hold infrastructure 'hostage'

He bought porn with $1.3 million in startup funds, feds say. Now he’s going to prison

DeSantis: AP ‘Smear Piece’ Linking COVID Treatment to Top Donor ‘Will Cost Lives’

Court sides with Texas in dispute with Biden administration over Medicaid funding

NYC public schools, Pentagon announce vaccine mandates after Pfizer approval

Afghanistan’s Gay Men Fear Death as Taliban Judge OKs Stonings

Capitol Police say Ashli Babbitt shooting might have 'saved' members of Congress

More Florida school districts to require masks in battle against governor’s order

Housing market appears to be 'settling down' as pandemic drags on

2 newlywed women found shot to death at their Utah campsite

Boardmasters: 4,700 Covid cases 'may be linked' to Newquay festival

Tropical Storm Henri makes landfall in Rhode Island

Top Taliban unit, donning US military gear, appears to mock famous WWII photo

My brother wanted to go to the bathroom. Police killed him instead.

Storm Henri makes landfall at Rhode Island

Lukaku 'unplayable' on dream second Chelsea debut in win over Arsenal

New top story on Hacker News: Person from Porlock

‘Flat wrong’: Fox’s Chris Wallace presses secretary of state on Biden, Afghanistan

Poison algae may have killed California family, police say

'Worst nightmare': Trump hits Biden's 'botched exit in Afghanistan' in first rally since fall of Kabul

Harris laughs at, shuts down questions as she says Afghanistan is her highest priority

'It's impossible': Lack of Covid safeguards overwhelm school nurses

U.S. reviewing if Moderna vaccine linked to higher heart inflammation risk: Report

New top story on Hacker News: On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking

New top story on Hacker News: Even my bigoted critics deserve free speech

New top story on Hacker News: Pam Duress – Alternate passwords for panic situations

New top story on Hacker News: One does not simply calculate the absolute value

New top story on Hacker News: I recommend CGI instead of web frameworks

New top story on Hacker News: The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy

Tennessee flooding leaves at least 10 dead and dozens missing as heavy rainfall lashes state

Fox News’s Wallace grills Blinken on al-Qaida and U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan

A baby that was photographed being passed to US soldiers over razor wire in Afghanistan has been safely reunited with their father

Afghanistan: The BBC's Lyse Doucet reports from Kabul airport

'From basketball to rugby' - Solskjaer joins criticism of new refereeing approach after Man Utd draw

New top story on Hacker News: DNA→RNA: What Do Students Think the Arrow Means? (2014)

New top story on Hacker News: Why Do the Children (Pretend) Play? [pdf]

Defense Secretary Austin Acknowledges Taliban Beatings of Americans in Kabul

Young boys steer car to safety after dad shot and killed on Texas freeway

Afghanistan chaos: Kabul airport reopens but 'corruption' a roadblock, interpreter tells Fox News

Judge denies restraining order against Dodgers' Bauer

South Carolina conservationist Anne Springs Close dies

Arizona Supreme Court upholds Prop. 208, won’t allow it to break spending limit

GOP Lawmakers Call on ABC to Release Unaired Portion of Biden Interview

Vietnam vet, evacuee says Kabul withdrawal makes Saigon seem 'as orderly as' audience exiting an opera

Men from Afghanistan's secret gay community say they are living through a 'nightmare' and fear that the Taliban will execute them at any moment

Some people are getting a 3rd Covid shot. Getting it too soon could backfire, Fauci says.

Women's Open: Scottish amateur Louise Duncan stars in the best shots from day three

New top story on Hacker News: EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning

New top story on Hacker News: Urban Dictionary on Hacker News

New top story on Hacker News: Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft

New top story on Hacker News: Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major languages in 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Beware state surveillance of your lives – governments can change for the worse

New top story on Hacker News: A Simple Interpreter in Python

Elite Taliban unit wearing US gear appears to mock iconic American WWII photo

Hurricane watch issued for Long Island and New England

Afghanistan's all-girls robotics team evacuated to Qatar

India approves world's first DNA Covid vaccine

U.S. Capitol Police update on the bomb threat near the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Only Trump, Mike Pence, and Mike Pompeo seem to be defending Trump's 2020 Taliban peace deal

4,300 veterans back Biden in letter slamming 'elites who pushed us into a 20-year war'

Mandatory Student Vaccinations: District Gives Teens Until Nov. 19 to Get Shots

Biden announces that staff at nursing homes receiving Medicare and Medicaid will have to be vaccinated

Taliban going 'house to house' in Afghanistan 'hanging' people who worked with US: source

Joe Biden to Americans in Afghanistan: 'We will get you home'

Covid cases: This summer compared with last

Syrian family in Cardigan advise Afghan refugees about Wales

New top story on Hacker News: Google is dismantling its health division

New top story on Hacker News: SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are getting ‘out of control’

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Cassyni – Relaunching Academic Seminars

New top story on Hacker News: Cuttlefish remember the what, when, and where of meals–even into old age

Georgia Gov. Kemp signs order allowing businesses to ignore local mask, vaccine mandates

Judge denies restraining order against Dodgers' Bauer

Judge blocks Beshear’s mask mandate in at least one school, calling it ‘tyranny’

Afghan troops sought safety in numbers – igniting a cascade of surrender

Texas Supreme Court sides with school districts in latest mask mandate legal challenge

COVID patient dies in Oregon emergency department waiting for ICU bed. ‘Very real’

There’s a new disturbance in the Atlantic. Grace is a hurricane and Henri will be soon

Fort Worth teen punched his uncle 20 times over who was going to cook dinner, judge says

Johnson County pediatrician may be out of job even after her change on masks in school

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick deflects criticism of COVID outbreak in his state by saying Democrats aren't getting enough Black Americans vaccinated

Haiti earthquake: Rescue efforts continue in Les Cayes

New top story on Hacker News: The Top of My Todo List

New top story on Hacker News: A 5x reduction in RAM usage with Zoekt memory optimizations

Iowa woman sentenced to 25 years in hate attacks on 2 kids

Leader in last Afghan holdout against Taliban praises protesters

Two more vaccinated senators test positive for COVID-19

Police fatally shoot motorist in Marietta, Georgia, after brief chase

Grizzly Flats destroyed by fire, second Northern California community burned

But what about those vaccinated with Johnson & Johnson shots?

People all over Afghanistan are protesting Taliban rule as self-declared acting president urges resistance

Deranged MAGA Supporter Who Livestreamed Capitol Bomb Threat Is Taken Into Custody

New top story on Hacker News: Sourcegraph: Why we're indexing the OSS universe

Biden vowed US would ‘respond’ to Chinese invasion of Taiwan after Afghanistan debacle

Russia was ready for Taliban's win due to longtime contacts

Baby found dead after Indiana parents say they left her with relative to get a break

Monster California wildfires force fresh evacuations and raze more homes

Anglo-Saxon queen’s missing monastery unearthed after 1,000 years

Taliban finds it isn't so easy to set up its non-'democratic' Afghan government based on Sharia law

Secretary of Defense: ‘I Don’t Have the Capability’ to Escort Stranded Americans to Kabul Airport

Man whips out machete after girlfriend struck and killed while on bike, Texas cops say

U.S. COVID-19 breakthrough infections are 'uncommon,' rising 'considerably,' and 'sort of okay'

Witness to MyPillow CEO incident says there was no 'attack'

Zaki Anwari: Afghan footballer falls to death from US plane in Kabul

Teen struggling with man over gun kills mother in Arlington, faces manslaughter charge

Caldor Fire explodes more than 8 times its size to nearly 54,000 acres in a day

3 might be the magic number for COVID-19 vaccine doses, Yale immunologist explains

At least 2 US officials in Germany have developed symptoms of the mysterious 'Havana Syndrome' that's plagued American spies and diplomats around the world, report says

Republicans: Local control for me but not for thee

MPs vent their fury over Afghanistan - but what impact will it have?

New top story on Hacker News: Apple Defends Anti-Child Abuse Imagery Tech After Claims of ‘Hash Collisions’

New top story on Hacker News: Apple censors engraving service, report claims

New top story on Hacker News: ASK HN: Best RealSense Replacements?

New top story on Hacker News: Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windows 11

New top story on Hacker News: The Cult of Mary Beard (2018)

Taliban encounter Afghan cities remade in their absence

‘I think she’s out,’ deputy says after violent arrest

Strip club worker fired upon 50 times as she came home from job, Texas sheriff says

Taliban fighters almost attacked CNN producer as Clarissa Ward interviewed crowd outside Kabul airport: 'We had to intervene and scream'

Fueled by winds, largest wildfire moves near California city

Texas parent rips mask off teacher's face, superintendent says

It might be time for a mask upgrade

Afghan President Surfaces in the United Arab Emirates

People with both COVID-19 shots are fully vaccinated without booster, surgeon general says

Police officer and son's death was murder-suicide

Hunt for owner of engagement ring found at Tube station

How latte art in South Africa led to a job from hell in Oman

Home Depot 'discriminated against BLM supporter'

Afghanistan: Female Kabul resident fears for future under Taliban

California man sues after being startled by dumpster-diving bear

New top story on Hacker News: The Wendelstein 7-X concept proves its efficiency

New top story on Hacker News: Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror

Senate Democrats promise probe into chaotic Afghan withdrawal

Afghan Air Force pilot to Americans: 'We did not all just give up and quit'

Western states face first federal water cuts amid drought

Kabul airport plunges into chaos as Taliban patrol capital

Taliban accumulate massive amounts of U.S.-supplied firepower after Afghan collapse

California's Caldor Fire triggers evacuation orders

Trump administration officials highlight one specific 'failure' in Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal plan

Tropical Storm Grace leaves Haiti with flooding rains, and it could be a hurricane soon

Afghan officials, security forces reportedly started selling out to the Taliban in early 2020

The Best Products to Beat the Heat

New top story on Hacker News: Zorin OS 16 is Released

New top story on Hacker News: Colorado River drops to record low levels, slashing Arizona’s water supply

A Taliban commander who helped seize the Afghan presidential palace spent nearly 6 years at Guantanamo, where he told a guard 'we will get you on the outside'

Florida 911 calls released after woman killed by toddler while on Zoom call: 'There's blood everywhere'

Joe Biden's speech angers Washington - but will have struck a chord with war-weary Americans

The UK foreign secretary, who was spotted on a Greek beach the day Afghanistan fell, said he wouldn't have gone on vacation if he knew how fast the Taliban was moving

Republicans blame Biden for the US's chaotic withdrawal but are glossing over how Trump's Taliban deal set up the disaster

Afghan women to have rights within Islamic law, Taliban says

Commentary: Trevor Bauer, faced with report of previous protective order, plays old card: Bullying

The Taliban hunted and threatened city employees who didn't show up to work in one of the first places they seized, in a sign of what could happen to the rest of the country

Bezos sues Nasa over its deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX

New top story on Hacker News: Farmers help create ‘Virtual safe space’ to save bumblebees

New top story on Hacker News: Beyond All Reason: Open-source RTS reimagining Total Annihilation

New top story on Hacker News: Slackware 15.0 release candidate one

Photo of Biden in national security meeting raises accuracy and security questions

Russian embassy: Afghan leader fled with cars full of cash

U.S. joins over 60 other countries in calling on safe exit of Afghans and other citizens

U.S. military takes control of Kabul airport, aims to evacuate 5,000 civilians a day

Pelosi moves to advance bipartisan bill alongside $3.5 trillion plan, despite opposition

Dominic Raab accused of being 'missing in action' as he was on holiday when Kabul fell to Taliban

New York lawmakers reverse, agree to continue Cuomo's impeachment investigation

Vaccine skeptic US cardinal on ventilator after Covid diagnosis

Case worker must pay nearly $234,000 for food stamp fraud in North Carolina, feds say

Bisexual Olympic Athlete Jack Woolley Hospitalized After Brutal Attack

Biden said there was 'no circumstance' in which US citizens would be evacuated from Kabul by helicopter 5 weeks before exactly that happened

Mississippi student, 13, dies of COVID-19 after governor doubles down against mask mandate

Biden followed through on his promise to swiftly end America's longest war and could be held responsible for the tragedy unfolding

Texas Supreme Court sides with Gov. Abbott over mask mandates in Dallas, San Antonio

Afghanistan: UK and US must protect Afghan activists - Malala

Abject England lose to India in final hour

Cambridgeshire sinkhole: Locals crack up at The Butts' hole

Video captures woman handcuffed for having dogs off the leash - park cops mocked for arrest

Roger Federer will be out 'for many months' as he prepares for further knee surgery

New top story on Hacker News: I tested Copilot in an existing open-source codebase with unit tests [video]

New top story on Hacker News: OpenAI's Codex as a Chrome Extension (it has memorized HN's DOM structure)

New top story on Hacker News: Programming Idioms

New top story on Hacker News: Why query planning for streaming systems is hard

New top story on Hacker News: Google infringed on five Sonos patents, according to preliminary ruling

New top story on Hacker News: LinuxPhoneApps

New top story on Hacker News: Firefox 91 – Revert back to old tab style

New top story on Hacker News: Carvana’s Success Rides on Used-Car Loans

New top story on Hacker News: AWS Identity service handles 400M API calls every second

New top story on Hacker News: Attitude Determines Your Success

New top story on Hacker News: Tapedeck.org

New top story on Hacker News: Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria, 12500 Years Ago

Afghan president addresses nation as Taliban close in on Kabul

Pelosi signals she won’t bend to outnumbered centrists in spending fight

Trump blasts Biden for not 'following the plan' his administration crafted for Afghanistan

Video shows thousands of prisoners, reportedly including Islamic State and al Qaeda fighters, freed from Kabul jail by the Taliban

Storm runoff causes flooding in New Mexico

Canada election: Trudeau calls snap summer campaign

Woman seriously injured by her dog in attack

Will Taliban take country back to past, asks John Simpson

Afghanistan: People flee Kabul as Taliban overrun cities

Haiti’s been struck by an earthquake. In South Florida, we know what to do now | Editorial

COVID-stricken Oregon deploys National Guard to hospitals

'The situation is basically lost': US deployment to Kabul puts allies on 'high alert' to race out of Afghanistan

Afghanistan: How the Taliban gained ground so quickly

Biden's 'America is back' may be in question as Taliban moves swiftly across Afghanistan

New top story on Hacker News: A Proposal for the Dartmouth Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (1955)

Parent attacks teacher after mask dispute on first day of school, official says

Andrew Cuomo brags about saving New York lawmakers from looking like 'ship of fools' with impeachment

Thousands of kindergartners no-show, putting their futures at risk, experts say

Last year, Fauci said 'you cannot force someone' to get COVID-19 vaccine

Arnold Schwarzenegger asks if Americans are 'really this selfish and angry' after his rant against anti-maskers

Cheers Drive: Name plea for Cardiff bus station road

New top story on Hacker News: Let's write a compiler, part 1: Introduction, selecting a language, and planning

New top story on Hacker News: 25 years ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0, developer talks about it

New top story on Hacker News: On This Day in Twistory

California city councilman among six charged with election fraud in contest decided by one vote

Afghan president addresses nation as Taliban close in on Kabul

Report: Matt Gaetz's former wingman has given investigators thousands of photos, videos, and texts

Texas judge allows Harris County to temporarily defy Gov. Abbott's mask ban

Moderate Democrats warn Pelosi they won't consider budget resolution until infrastructure bill passes

Fred is dead for now, sparing South Florida. But here comes Tropical Storm Grace

Tropical Storm Grace could dump heavy rain on Puerto Rico before approaching South Florida

Root's unbeaten 180 helps England open up lead over India

New top story on Hacker News: Paint by Numbers: How Roger de Piles tabulated artistic merit

Tropical depression Fred is approaching Florida with another storm close behind

Lincoln Project co-founder calls for criminal investigation into Trump's 'self-coup'

Florida school district rattled by 3 Covid-related teacher deaths days before classes begin

As Tropical Storm Fred approaches Florida, DeSantis tells residents to 'review their disaster plans'

Woman pointing gun’s laser sight for cat to chase shoots man, Wisconsin cops say

What’s really causing your midlife spread – and how to fix it

Lukaku's agent 'threatened' over Chelsea transfer

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U.S. sends troops to Kabul to evacuate some embassy personnel

Evidence presented to grand jury in Durham's Russia probe

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Photo secretly taken of girl at CVS leads international agents to NC child porn suspect

California orders COVID shots, testing for schools

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Fall of Afghan jewel a harbinger of a return to dark times

BBC condemns Russia's decision to not renew correspondent's visa

US-Mexico border migrant detention levels reach 21-year high

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Taliban may be executing Afghan troops who surrender, U.S. Embassy says

Afghanistan: UK troops sent to get Britons out as Taliban advances

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Former US Attorney Preet Bharara wonders if 'mischief' afoot in Andrew Cuomo waiting 14 days to resign

New data suggests Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines may be less effective against Delta

Afghanistan war: Taliban back brutal rule as they strike for power

FDA will allow extra dose of COVID-19 vaccine for immunocompromised people

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40% of severe COVID-19 infections at KY Children’s Hospital came in the last 2 weeks

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The Pentagon is exploring its options for a more efficient and powerful F-35 engine

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GCSE students praised for 'resilience, commitment and dedication'

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Hell no to a debt ceiling increase

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In win for San Antonio and Bexar County, judge temporarily overrides Texas governor's ban on mask mandates

Broward Schools must reverse mask mandate or risk ‘sanctions,’ Florida commissioner says

Nearly 200 million in U.S. under heat advisories, warnings as two heat domes form

Pregnant woman killed in Southern California road rage incident

Senate passes Cotton's amendment preventing federal funding of critical race theory

Federal judge rules Trump's accountants must hand over tax record to House panel

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Tropical Storm Fred begins crossing Dominican Republic with Florida still in the cone

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Delta variant has wrecked hopes of herd immunity, warn scientists

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With his ‘aye’ vote on infrastructure, McConnell stares down Trump

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I Am Legend screenwriter dismisses anti-vax claims based on film's plot

Odeon owner AMC to accept payment in Bitcoin

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Senate passes $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, handing major win to Biden

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Thousands of Californians under evacuation orders as Dixie Fire nears 500,000 acres

Colorado husband accused of killing wife appears in court

White House wasn't given heads-up before Cuomo resignation

Democrats' Gavin Newsom recall nightmare

DeSantis threatens salaries of superintendents, school board members who support masking