Testimony at the Senate continues from America's top military officials, who say they recommended President Biden keep Afghanistan troop levels at 2,500 not, as he later decided, zero. After the messy withdrawal and a number of Americans still in left Afghanistan, should Biden have had a better plan?

The New York City Mayor says their numbers definitively prove city and state vaccine mandates are working. 92% of NYC health workers are now vaccinated with a 45% rise in daily NYC vaccinations since the mandates were announced. The pace of national vaccinations however, is slowing.

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