Vera Middleton wishes she had gotten the Covid-19 vaccine. Source: CNN
31-year-old begs followers to get vaccine before dying
Megan Alexandra Blankenbiller was waiting to get vaccinated until she had convinced her family to do it together. Source: CNN
Schumer on $3.5 trillion bill: 'We're moving full speed ahead'
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Democrats are moving “full speed ahead” on the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill despite the call for a “strategic pause” and smaller price tag from moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Source: CNN
Schools superintendent warns of 'big tragedy' across US
Schools don’t need to see a big uptick in Covid-19 cases if they follow these measures, Fauci says Source: CNN
Blinken says Taliban has pledged that Americans with travel documents can leave Afghanistan
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rebutted GOP claims that the Taliban is holding Americans “hostage” Tuesday, as uncertainty over the militant group’s promises to let Americans leave Afghanistan continued to roil Washington and as the Taliban named members of a designated terror group to its interim government. Source: CNN
Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, a long-time Taliban member who has been leader within the militant group, was named as prime minister
• Taliban fire into the air to break up Kabul’s largest street protests yet • Curtains separate male and female students as university term gets underway • Pilot describes aircraft being shot down by Taliban Source: CNN
Taliban crack down hard on Kabul's largest protest yet
The Taliban has used bullets and violent beatings to crush dissent over their rule, after scores of Afghan protesters marched through the streets of Kabul on Tuesday, in the largest demonstration in the capital since the militant group seized power in Afghanistan last month. Source: CNN