Service members forced to "play God" amid chaotic Afghan withdrawal, Army investigation details
CBSN
New documents detail how the administration's lack of coordination over the withdrawal from Afghanistan put the burden on young service members to "play God" on who left Kabul.
The Army investigation into the August 26 Abbey Gate attack at the airport in Kabul that killed 13 U.S. service members and 170 Afghan civilians included interviews with over 130 people who detailed the weeks ahead of the noncombatant evacuation and its final days.
"Besides conducting crowd control, Marines at Abbey Gate were forced to play God by identifying who would be allowed into the airfield," one military official told investigators.
President Joe Biden said France was America's "first friend" at its founding and is one of its closest allies more than two centuries later as he was honored with a state visit Saturday by French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at showing off their partnership on global security issues and easing past trade tensions.
The Consumer Federal Protection Bureau last week launched an inquiry into what the agency is calling "junk fees in mortgage closing costs." These additional fees, involving home appraisal, title insurance and other services, have spiked in recent years and can add thousands of dollars to the final cost of buying a home.
Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.