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United States Senator Lindsey Graham slammed President Joe Biden's August 31 deadline to evacuate Americans and Afghanis from the country, and warned it will see the Taliban attack those left behind, and take 'thousands of hostages.' In an interview with Fox and Friends on Sunday, the South Carolina Republican said the United States and allied forces will not be able to get all of the Americans and Afghanis who helped Americans over the 20-year war out of the country by next Tuesday. He said people will inevitably be left behind to live under Taliban rule.  'I think I know what he's going to do,' Graham said of Biden. 'He's going to let the Taliban run out the clock. And come August 31st, we're going to start leaving. And, Pete, we're going to leave a lot of people behind who fought for us so bravely.  'If you believe in merit-based immigration, which I do, the people who served with us in Afghanistan should be at the top of anybody's lis

Sydney is one step closer to freedom with Gladys Berejiklian's target of six million Covid vaccines hit today - even as 753 new cases were recorded. Of the locally acquired cases, 134 are linked to a known cluster, 108 are household contacts and 26 are close contacts. The source of infection for 619 cases is under investigation, and no deaths were recorded in the 24 hours to 8pm on Monday.    On Tuesday morning, she said 60 per cent of the state's population has had at least one jab and 32 per cent have had one - 48,761 vaccines were administered on Monday. The NSW premier has long promised the target of six million jabs would trigger 'greater freedoms', at least for the 31 per cent in the state fully vaccinated.   Those are likely to be extremely limited with NSW recording more than 800 cases a day, the vast majority in western Sydney. 'I'm so pleased and grateful New South Wales has had 6 million jabs,' Ms Berejiklian told reporters on Tuesday morning. 

Former Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez is recovering from an apparent suicide attempt in jail after she was charged with genocide by prosecutors. Áñez, 54, cut her arms, her lawyer Norka Cuellar told local reporters after police reported the incident as attempted suicide.  'This is a cry for help from the former president. She feels very harassed,' Cuellar said. 'The doctor came in and found her with the cuts. They have sutured her.' Former Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez (pictured March 13, 2021) is recovering after she attempted to commit suicide inside a prison in Bolivia on Saturday. The 54-year-old  has been in custody since March 13 following accusations that she had participated in a coup to oust longtime former President Evo Morales in 2019 The Office of the Attorney General of Bolivia announced genocide charges against former President Jeanine Áñez over the deaths of 20 protesters in 2019. Another member of her legal team, Jorge Valda, says he who worries the f

Harvey Weinstein is facing 11 sexual assault charges in Los Angeles once again after prosecutors filed an amended grand jury indictment against the disgraced film mogul for a third time. The 69-year-old appeared in court on Monday shackled in a wheelchair and clad in brown prison overalls and a blue protective mask during a hearing over the revised complaint.  Prosecutors have been seeking to indict Weinstein on a total of 11 rape and sexual assault charges involving five women in LA and dating from 2004 to 2013.   But the charges were reduced to 10 during an August 12 hearing after his attorneys successfully persuaded Judge Lisa Lench to dismiss one of them, sexual battery by restraint on a woman at a Beverly Hills Hotel in 2010, arguing it was beyond the statute of limitations. Prosecutors filed an amended indictment on Friday seeking to charge Harvey Weinstein (pictured in court on July 29) with 11 counts of sexual assault and rape  At an earlier hearing, Weinstein's charges wer

Police have testified that Barry Morphew's story changed repeatedly after his wife Suzanne vanished, with the dad-of-two telling cops that his wife could have been taken by a mountain lion before switching to say she could have been abducted by a man named 'CBD Jeff'. Agent Johnny Grusing took the stand today during the third day of a preliminary hearing to review Morphew's ever-changing story – revealing that he had deleted angry texts from his wife a week after she vanished. Morphew was charged in May with the murder of Suzanne, though her body has never been found. Wearing a gray suit, dark tie and white shirt, and clutching an orange envelope, Morphew looked on impassively as his defense lawyer Dru Nielsen argued that the case should be thrown out. During the afternoon session on Monday, CBI field agent Kevin Kobak told how Morphew had called employee Morgan Gentile to say his wife was missing and was talking about mountain lions early on May 11.  Kobak spoke to Mor

The nation's Big Four Airlines — American, Delta, United, and Southwest — are working with the United States government to help transport Afghan evacuees to their destination cities. Southwest started chartering domestic flights for evacuees on Monday as the U.S. government works to accelerate efforts to evacuate vulnerable Afghans amid the Taliban insurgence. 'We are proud to support our military's critical humanitarian airlift mission, and we are grateful to our employees for demonstrating an eagerness to support these military efforts,' Southwest said in a statement provided to ABC News.   As of Monday morning, 25 U.S. Military C-17s, three U.S. Military C-130s and 61 charter/commercial flights have departed Kabul, carrying a total of approximately 16,000 passengers. Of that number, the U.S. military transported just under 11,000 personnel.  Commercial airlines are working with the United States government to help transport Afghan evacuees to their destination cities