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NFL pushes for more testing for vaccinated players amid rise in breakthrough cases as the league claims it wanted to mandate shots

The NFL and the players' union are pushing for more testing among immunized players amid a rise in breakthrough cases while both are accusing the other of killing a vaccine mandate ahead of the upcoming 2021 season.    Commissioner Roger Goodell's office has asked the players' union to adjust protocols so vaccinated players would be tested weekly instead of every 14 days. The NFLPA has been pushing for daily testing for all players. Under current rules, only unvaccinated players are tested daily, as they were during the 2020 season before the injections were available.   Currently 93 percent of players are vaccinated, according to the NFL, which reported 68 positives cases out of 7,190 tested individuals between August 1 and August 21. The 0.95 percent incidence rate is lower than in most communities.  About seven times as many unvaccinated players have tested positive for COVID-19 compared to their immunized counterparts, according to the NFL. NFL commissioner Roger Goode

Trump slams Biden over 'Kill List': Fury after US gave Taliban list of Afghan allies to be evacuated. Ex-president says they will be murdered and savages 'botched' withdrawal that led to deaths of 13 US troops and 90 civilians in suicide blasts

Donald Trump has slammed Joe Biden for handing over a list of approved Afghan evacuees to the Taliban amid fears it will now be used by the extremist group to kill those named on it.  Calls for Biden's resignation and impeachment have mounted after at least 103 people, including 13 U.S. service personnel, were killed by ISIS terrorists in a double suicide attack on Kabul airport on Thursday.   In an emotional address to the nation, Biden vowed to 'hunt down' and 'make the terrorists pay' as he mourned the 'selfless heroes' who died helping vulnerable people flee the country. But defense experts and Republican opposition slammed the president, saying that the tragedy only served to underscore the disastrous decision to withdraw from Afghanistan and hand power back to the Taliban.  Trump called the crisis the 'most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to our country.'  Flights resumed on Friday morning with as many as 1,000 Americans and thousands