." Several of the GOP holdouts are invited to meet with Trump, but Reps.... Ralph Norman and Tim Burchett

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

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

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....

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

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, a Republican, said Democrats could be compelled to return under “ warrant of arrest if necessary.” How that process could work was still unclear, even for the Republicans who invoked it.... Mayes Middleton said," but they got to come back to work." How soon or even whether law enforcement would round up Democrats also was not clear.... The divisions have spilled in the open as the GOP presses forward with a third attempt to pass voting legislation....

different state. But a CNN analysis of US Census data and election results found several revealing

The GOP is far from unified around the bill, which they earlier had said they hoped to move to a vote on Wednesday.... Clay Higgins speak to the press during a House Rules Committee's hearing on U.S. President Donald Trump's plan for extensive tax cuts, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, May 21, 2025.... That was a very good meeting at the White House....