Pauline Tolentino

  Many had traveled to visit relatives in early May and June, months before the crisis unfolded and the Taliban seized power. Families board a U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 24, 2021. At least six families from a San Diego suburb with a large refugee population are among those stuck in Afghanistan after going back to the country over summer break to visit grandparents and other relatives. The families, from El Cajon, were asking for the U.S. government's help after being unable to board their flights back to California. They have been blocked by the throngs of Afghans at the Kabul airport desperately trying to escape following their government's rapid collapse and the withdrawal of U.S. troops. The El Cajon Valley Union School District became aware of the problem after one of the family's relatives reached out to say their child would be late starting the school year, which b...

  “There is little to no livestock feed available in the West, farmers are considering selling their livestock or land,” two congressman wrote. A kayaker fishes in Lake Oroville as water levels remain low because of drought conditions in Oroville, Calif., on Sunday. Congressional leaders are calling on President Joe Biden to declare a drought disaster in the West as record-shattering temperatures and historic wildfires batter multiple states. The letter signed by Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse and California Rep. Jared Huffman, both Democrats whose districts have been ravaged by drought and wildfires, asks Biden and theFederal Emergency Management Agency to release additional resources to aid Western communities faced with water cuts amid rapidly dwindling supplies. “There is little to no livestock feed available in the West, farmers are considering selling their livestock or land, and many species of wildlife are suffering from wildfires and lack of water,” Neguse and Huffman wrote. “Th...

  It is the latest instance of the former president’s allies being penalized for their roles in spreading conspiracies about the 2020 vote. Sidney Powell, then an attorney for President Donald Trump, at a news conference Nov. 19 at the Republican National Committee about lawsuits over the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. A federal judge Wednesday sanctioned some of former President Donald Trump's attorneys who unsuccessfully challenged Michigan's 2020 election results. In a blistering 110-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker in Michigan imposed sanctions on Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and other lawyers involved in making claims about election fraud in the state. Powell, Wood and others joined a lawsuit in November alleging widespread fraud in the presidential contest in Michigan, which President Joe Biden won. Parker dismissed the lawsuit a month later because she found that it was based largely on "speculation and conjecture," according to The Associat...