"This tragedy should have never been allowed to happen, which makes our grief even deeper and more difficult to understand."
The Biden state department pulled their briefing today after suicide bombing left at least 10 US service members dead and many more wounded in Kabul.
Suspected suicide bombers connected to Islamic terrorist groups set off two explosions near the Kabul airport gates on Thursday, killing four US Marines, and wounding three.
"We were not aware of this visit and we are obviously not encouraging VIP visits to a very tense, dangerous, and dynamic situation at the airport and inside Kabul generally."
"No governmental entity can compel any individual to receive a COVID 19 vaccine," Abbott's order read. Previously he had only banned mandates of vaccines not yet FDA approved.
Earlier in the day the state superintendent’s office filed an emergency rule which cuts funding "for districts who willfully fail to comply" with the mask and vaccine mandates.
"These Democrats only have one tired trick—political theater—and their latest request only reinforces that pathetic reality."
"As Democrats and Republicans, we stand united in our commitment to protecting US citizens, diplomats, intelligence officers, and our foreign partners who are currently attempting to flee Afghanistan."
White House correspondent for Fox News Jacqui Heinrich reported on Thursday that there are "hundreds of ISIS-K in the vicinity" of the Kabul airport, and that attacks "are likely to continue."
"We can confirm that the explosion at the Abbey Gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of US & civilian casualties," Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said.
"Joe Biden knew or certainly should have known that this kind of ill-advised, ill-planned, chaotic withdrawal would lead to the collapse of the Afghan army," Sen. Cotton said.
"We tried several days just to get through the gates. We were supposed to be the priority because we were the US citizens."
"We're operating in a hostile environment, in a city and country now controlled by the Taliban, with the very real threat of an ISIS-K attack," Secretary of State Tony Blinken said.
The two-year-old was leaving their apartment building with their mother when a woman in her mid 30s or 40s pushed her into the ground, causing her to fall on her face.
After the state Democrats tried to deflect, the National Pulse reminded them about Kate Brown’s ties to the Chinese government.