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Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington issued the statement via Twitter as the administration is pushing ahead with a planned withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan due to end on August 31. “Tragic mess in Afghanistan, a completely open and broken Border, Crime at record levels, oil prices through the roof, inflation rising, and taken advantage of by the entire world,” Trump’s statement said. “DO YOU MISS ME YET?” the former president asked....

Trump posted his response in a Friday video on Rumble, a video sharing app favored by conservatives. He denounced the “selective interpretation” of his tweet defending Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) from criticism for taking a trip to Cancun, Mexico, amid mass power outages and frigid weather in Texas, referring to the trip as “a little PR mishap” on Friday. The viral tweet had criticized the “hypocrisy of those trying to cancel Ted Cruz who have been totally silent on their Democrat governor’s incompetence,” which many interpreted as a reference to Abbott....

“I wish Joe Biden wouldn’t use September 11th as the date to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan,” Trump said in a statement released Sunday. The U.S. entered Afghanistan after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001. American troops have remained in the country ever since and posed a decision-making challenge to both Democratic and Republican administrations. Trump, who advocated through his presidency for leaving Afghanistan, cited “two reasons” why the historic date of September 11 shouldn’t be used to mark the end of the conflict....

According to the FiveThirtyEight presidential approval rating tracker, Trump hit an average approval rating of 45 percent on Wednesday last week—a 5-point increase on his July low of around 40 percent. At the same time, Trump’s November 11 disapproval rating stood at 52 percent, a fall of 4 points on July that put his net disapproval rating at 7 percentage points. President Trump’s approval rating last reached 45 percent in was a little more than seven months ago, with his average backing reaching 45....

The commander-in-chief still insists that widespread irregularities helped President-elect Joe Biden to win, although he and his allies have failed to show evidence of fraud on such a scale. The Electoral College held its formal vote on December 14, with 306 cast for Biden. Trump’s efforts to change this figure by overturning state outcomes have so far failed. Ahead of the election, Gallup polling put Trump’s approval rating at 46 percent among U....

At the plate: Dustin Pedroia, in the midst of a nine-game hitting streak, already recorded a single in the first. Leone knew well what he was up against. Pedroia had knocked him for three hits in four at-bats this season. “Obviously, he is one of the guys in the lineup you don’t look forward to pitching against,” Leone said with a smile. And Pedroia battled. He took a fastball up for a strike, followed by a fastball and a cutter outside for two balls....

Appearing on CNN’s New Day, John Poulos was asked about a recent letter a defamation law firm representing the company sent to White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. The letter told them to preserve all records related to the company and warned that legal action is “imminent,” according to CNN. “We did send a letter to several different people that have been spreading lies and defamatory remarks about our company since Election Day on various media platforms,” Poulos said....

During his last Senate bid, Bolduc praised supporters on social media who carried his campaign sign at Trump events. He attended several Trump rallies. He phone banked for the then-president during his 2020 reelection bid and—before his Republican primary in September—claimed to be the strongest candidate in the field to go to Washington to fight the liberal establishment and “restore President Trump’s America First agenda.” And when he won, the former president noticed....

Dual exchange systems have political appeal to Argentina’s financiers and business people. An official international peg will provide stability for their foreign operations. But dual rates have a sorry history. On past experience, the floating domestic free-market rate will progressively undermine Argentina’s international peg as traders, smugglers and ordinary citizens find ways around the government’s exchange controls. Argentina’s labor laws, budget and social policies are shaped not by the IMF, but by Argentina’s elected governments, which have proved unable to engineer workable reforms....

The National Green Tribunal last Thursday formed a five-member expert group to inspect the venue following a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that pleaded that night matches should not be organised without proper environmental monitoring. The team, headed by A.K. Sanyal, is expected to file its report by next week. The matter has again been listed for hearing in the Eastern Bench of the NGT on September 27. The panel will ascertain the impact the holding of night matches might have on the environmental health and eco-diversity of the Rabindra Sarobar Lake which is part of the National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Eco-system (NPCA)....

It’s been a frustrating year to date for Luke Donald as the former world No. 1 has struggled with his usually superb short game, but he is hopeful he can turn that around at the Masters. The 35-year-old Chicago-based Englishman is winless since the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth last May, a victory that returned him to the top of the world rankings. And in his last outing in Malaysia, he endured a rare missed cut as his putter misfired once again....

At midday, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Senior Adviser Jared Kushner huddled in the campaign’s Arlington, Va., headquarters with campaign manager Bill Stepien and other top officials, gaming out what comes next. The campaign filed suit in Michigan for an immediate stop to vote counting, alleging that Republican campaign monitors were not sufficiently represented in vote-counting sites. “We also demand to review those ballots which were opened and counted while we did not have meaningful access,” Stepien said....

Sondland is one of the so-called “Three Amigos”—along with Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker—accused of running the White House’s parallel Ukraine strategy designed to bolster Trump’s personal political fortunes, rather than build bilateral relations with Kiev. The ambassador is central to the question of whether Trump sought a quid pro quo with Ukraine, exchanging frozen military aid for an investigation into likely 2020 rival Joe Biden....

Despite previously pledging in October to force the Democrats to raise the debt ceiling using the Senate’s potentially time-consuming budget reconciliation process, last week McConnell recruited Republican support to block a potential filibuster—he and 13 GOP senators voted to allow the Democrats to fast-track their bill. The debt ceiling is a limit Congress imposes on the federal government’s debt. In a statement on Sunday, Trump said: “Mitch McConnell is giving the Democrats victory on everything....

The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) made the decision to “protect the health and safety of all”, according to a statement on Thursday, and there was plenty of criticism of the move from Trump’s supporters. After the first debate on September 30 produced jokes, memes and critical commentary, some Twitter users suggested that the president was trying to avoid a repeat. “The score is Biden/Harris:2, Trump/Pence: 0. The next debate is now going to be virtual, but Trump is a baby and won’t do it, so the final score looks like it will stay 2:0,” tweeted veteran Star Trek actor George Takei....

The hacked site’s text was only viewable by some but not all of the site’s users. “Earlier this evening, the Trump campaign website was defaced and we are working with law enforcement to investigate the source of the attack,” the Trump campaign wrote in a statement following the hack. “There was no exposure of sensitive data because none of it is actually stored on the site.” The text on the hacked webpage read, “This site has been seized....

A petition set was set up by U.S.-based non-profit activism organization Avaaz to pursue a Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) against Trump—a court order issued by a British court to force an individual to reveal sources of their finances, also known as a “McMafia” order. Politicians and campaigners have called for an investigation into how Trump funded the all-cash purchases of his two Scottish golf resorts of Turnberry and Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire....

President Donald Trump’s eldest son told Charlie Kirk, a contributor to Newsweek’s “The Debate” platform, that he believed people would say his father had dementia if he “mixed up Iowa and Ohio once.” Speaking about Biden on The Charlie Kirk Show, Trump Jr. said: “Biden doesn’t remember what state he’s in 50 percent of the time. If Donald Trump mixed up Iowa and Ohio once, they’d say he has dementia, he’s totally lost it....

On Wednesday, The New York Times published the letter from prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who quit as special assistant district attorney in February amid reports Bragg had doubts about pushing forward with prosecuting the former president and paused the grand jury investigation needed to indict him. In the bombshell letter, Pomerantz, one of the top prosecutors working on the investigation into alleged tax fraud by The Trump Organization, said that the former president was “guilty of numerous felony violations” with regards to his “false” financial statements....

Hours after the news broke on Tuesday, Trump urged people to leave Pence alone in a Truth Social post. “Mike Pence is an innocent man. He never did anything knowingly dishonest in his life. Leave him alone!!!” the former president wrote. CNN first reported that one of Pence’s lawyers discovered roughly a dozen documents with classified markings at the former vice president’s home in Carmel, Indiana, after Pence himself had said he had no such records in his possession....