SALEM, Ore.... --Oregon, one of the last holdout states in joining a$ 26 billion settlement with

to ending Monday as several holdouts returned and put Republicans on the brink of having enough

Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan.... Taliban officials say they have entered the capital of the holdout

Instead of a unified and celebratory return by Democrats, some members fumed and lashed out at their colleagues over what they criticized as breaking ranks.... “ We were literally on caucus calls for 2 hours this morning and none of the defecting Democrats mentioned they were planning on helping the Republicans pass voter suppression bills.... Guess what the other defecting Democrats have accomplished by going back — NOTHING!...

25, 2021, file photo, armored vehicles are seen in Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul, Afghanistan.... The anti-Taliban forces had been led by the former vice president, Amrullah Saleh, and also the son of the iconic anti-Taliban fighter Ahmad Shah Massoud who was killed just days before the 9/ 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.... An Afghan official at the airport in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, the provincial capital, said that the would-be passengers were Afghans, many of whom did not h

Nestled in the towering Hindu Kush mountains, the Panjshir Valley has a single narrow entrance.... Local fighters held off the Soviets there in the 1980s and also the Taliban a decade later under the leadership of Massoud. Massoud’s son Ahmad had issued a statement on Sunday, calling for an end to the fighting that had been blistering in recent days.... When the last American troops pulled out on August 30, though, many were left behind. The US promised to continue working with the new Taliban

Among the pockets of resistance against the Taliban following their takeover of Afghanistan, the biggest is in the Panjshir Valley. Comprising anti-Taliban militia fighters and former Afghan security forces, they vowed to resist as the Taliban sends fighters to surround the area. Both sides have said they want to resolve the standoff through talks but there has been no breakthrough on the fate of the strategic area. Why is the Panjshir Valley important?... Afghan men wave a flag above the portr

If we’re going to stop the delta variant, the time is now.... Vaccination cards or state and city apps will be accepted as proof of inoculation. Meanwhile, meat and poultry giant Tyson Foods said it will require all of its approximately 120, 000 U.S. employees to get the shot over the next three months.... He encouraged people to get vaccinated.“ We are not shutting down, ” DeSantis said....

Its future profits would be used to fight the epidemic, which has been linked to more than 500, 000 deaths in the U.S. since 2000. Sackler family members would contribute$ 4.5 billion in cash and control of charitable funds.... Some individual victims and their survivors would receive payments estimated to range from$ 3, 500 to$ 48, 000. The bankruptcy judge also said he wanted to resolve questions about some details of the complicated settlement plan.... He was focusing on insurance issues an

AUSTIN, Texas— Texas Democrats again refused to return to the state Capitol on Saturday as Gov.... Greg Abbott began a third attempt at passing new election laws, prolonging a months-long standoff that ramped up in July when some Democratic state lawmakers fled the state and hunkered down in Washington.... Abbott, a Republican who is up for reelection in 2022, has threatened Democrats with arrest in an effort to compel them back to the Capitol, although state troopers have no jurisdiction beyo