
Before this week, when did you last think of Afghanistan?
CNN
For the past five or six years, the US campaign in Afghanistan was about doing just enough to stop this moment from happening.
For the hundreds of Afghans -- crushing each other close to suffocation outside the North Gate of Kabul's airport and holding babies in the air for US Marines to grab -- the lack of regard paid to their country and the events unfolding in it has been palpable for a while now.
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found.

Two of the most senior figures in the US government — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the White House chief of staff — have been impersonated in recent weeks using artificial intelligence — a tactic that harnesses a rapidly developing technology that cybersecurity experts say is becoming the “new normal” in terms of cheap and easy scams targeting senior US officials.