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Health officials seek monkeypox vaccines, urge health emergency - Roll Call

Public health officials are urging the administration to do more to address the monkeypox virus as clinics struggle to get vaccines.

Roll Call · Aug 2, 2022

Pelosi has landed in Taiwan. Here's why that's a big deal

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is making an unannounced, but widely anticipated, stop in Taiwan. The move is expected to increase already heightened tensions between the U.S. and China.

WEKU · Aug 2, 2022

Dems accuse DHS IG of Jan. 6 "cover-up"

DHS inspector general Joseph Cuffari's staff “may have taken steps to cover up the extent of missing records"

Salon · Aug 2, 2022

Brittney Griner back in Russian court on cannabis charge

Brittney Griner is back in court for her trial for cannabis possession amid U.S. diplomatic efforts to secure her release

The Independent UK · Aug 2, 2022

Watching Al-Qaeda Chief’s ‘Pattern of Life’ Key to His Death

As the sun was rising in Kabul on Sunday, two Hellfire missiles fired by a US drone ended Ayman al-Zawahiri's decade-long reign as the leader of al-Qaeda. The seeds of the audacious counterterrorism operation had been planted over many months. US officials had built a scale model of the safe…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 2, 2022

WW3 fears after Chinese warplanes soar close to Taiwan border as tensions boil over

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to land in Taipei, Taiwan's capital, later today amid what Washington calls Chinese "sabre rattling" over the visit

Daily Mirror · Aug 2, 2022

Pelosi arrives in Malaysia as tensions rise over possible Taiwan visit

Local media in Taiwan reported the U.S. House speaker will arrive in Taipei on Tuesday night, becoming the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to visit in more than 25 years.

WEKU · Aug 2, 2022

Al-Zawahiri's death proof it is possible to root out terrorism without being at war: Former US President Barack Obama

WASHINGTON: Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri's death in a US drone strike in Afghanistan is proof that it is possible to root out terrorism without being at war, former US President Barack Obama has said, hailing the Biden administration for bringing one of the masterminds of the 9/11 attacks to justice…

The Times of India · Aug 2, 2022

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The Independent UK · Aug 2, 2022

Ayman al-Zawahiri: Al-Qaeda leader killed by US drone strike in Kabul

The US President said intelligence officials tracked al-Zawahiri to a home in downtown Kabul where he was hiding out with his family

Evening Standard · Aug 2, 2022