The story behind the first CIA officers in Afghanistan after 9/11

Beth Macy, author of Dopesick, is drawing on her reporting experience to win Virginia voters in a longtime Republican district Virginia’s sixth congressional district has been in Republican hands for over 33 years, but Beth Macy , a longtime reporter with the Roanoke Times and author of Dopesick, a powerful account of the opioid crisis that swept through Appalachia two decades ago, has a plan to change that. The plan, drawing on her experience as a reporter, is to canvass the district in the mountainous west of the state, knocking on doors, going to…

A marvel of engineering and a model of sustainability, Bart has been financially distressed since the Covid pandemic A marvel of engineering and a model of sustainable public transportation, the San Francisco Bay Area’s transit system, financially distressed after years of declined ridership, is now staring down a fiscal cliff – and a potential death spiral that would have massive repercussions for everyone in the globally influential metropolis. As soon as early 2027, Bay Area Rapid Transit could be forced to close as many as 15 stations , reduce…

Tens of millions of people are in the path of the storm, which has canceled flights, concerts and sporting events.

The mayor of Athens said the explosion was likely caused by a gas leak.