Afghanistan live updates: Pentagon – drone strike kills ISIS-K planner

The U.S. military launched a drone strike against ISIS-K in retaliation for the deadly bombing at the Kabul airport, the Pentagon said Friday.

Just before the Pentagon announced the strike, the State Department issued a fresh alert, telling Americans at four Kabul airport gates to “leave immediately.”

Earlier Friday, the Pentagon warned that specific, credible terrorist threats from ISIS-K to U.S. troops and civilians fleeing Afghanistan after Thursday’s devastating Kabul airport attack, which killed 13 American service members and at least 169 Afghan civilians.

President Joe Biden has vowed retaliation against ISIS-K. “We will hunt you down and make you pay,” he said hours after Thursday’s bombing at the Kabul airport.

Details also began emerging on the 13 service members killed in Thursday’s bombing near Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, at least some of whom were only babies and toddlers on September 11, 2001. Evacuations of Americans and their allies restarted, an effort to get out as many civilians ahead of the military’s withdrawal, just four days away.

A US Air Force aircraft takes off from the military airport in Kabul on Aug. 27, 2021, as the Pentagon said the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan still faces more possible attacks like the bombing that killed scores of people outside the Kabul airport.

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US military strike targets ISIS-K planner

A military strike Friday targeted an ISIS-K planner in a drone attack, the first American attack on the terrorist group following Thursday’s bomb attack in Kabul, the Pentagon announced.

“U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner,” Navy Capt. Bill Urban, a Central Command spokesman, said in a statement. “The unmanned airstrike occurred 

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Fanatics licensing deal kills Topps Co. merger | Jax Everyday File | Jacksonville Each day File

Iconic baseball card firm Topps Co.’s program to go general public fell aside final 7 days and apparently Jacksonville-dependent Fanatics Inc. is to blame.

Topps in April agreed to merge with a distinctive intent acquisition organization named Mudrick Capital Acquisition Company II, which would have turned Topps into a general public company.

Mudrick scheduled a shareholders meeting for this week that would have been the remaining phase in advance of finishing the transaction.

Having said that, The Wall Road Journal noted Aug. 19 that the players’ unions of Important League Baseball, the NBA and the NFL reached agreements with a new company managed by Fanatics for items licensing.

The subsequent morning, Mudrick issued a information launch indicating the Topps deal “has been terminated by mutual agreement, right after notification on August 19, 2021 from Significant League Baseball and the Important League Baseball Gamers Association that they would not be renewing their respective agreements with The Topps Company when they arrive up for renewal at the end of 2025 and 2022, respectively.”

Topps did not have discounts with the basketball and football unions but baseball was a big component of its business enterprise.

Proxy statements for the Mudrick deal do not expose how considerably money Topps was making from baseball. The company documented income of $567 million in 2020 and mentioned 55% of that arrived from its card business enterprise.

Besides baseball playing cards, Topps has licensing discounts for numerous other athletics leagues and for Star Wars playing cards.

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Grizzly bear pulls California girl out of tent in Montana, kills her

A grizzly bear pulled a female from her tent in the middle of the night Tuesday in Montana and killed her, in accordance to wildlife officials. 

The target, Leah Davis Lokan, 65, of Chico, California, was on a extensive-length bicycling trip when she was attacked in the western Montana local community of Ovando, about 60 miles northwest of Helena. She was killed around 3:30 a.m. before fellow campers in an adjacent tent had been able to use bear spray to ward off the estimated 400-pound animal.

Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks (FWP) officials explained the bear experienced beforehand stumbled across the website all around 3 a.m., where by Lokan and a couple have been camping in close proximity to a submit business. The bear ran away right after waking the a few campers, who eliminated food stuff from their tents, secured it, and went back to bed.

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About 15 minutes later, the bear was captured in surveillance footage at a business enterprise much less than a block away from the submit business. Officers added that the bear received into a rooster coop at some position in the course of the night time and ate numerous chickens. 

The bear has not been situated and will be killed.

FWP wardens and bear experts will proceed to observe the location closely, and initiatives to discover the bear are now concentrating on traps in the vicinity of Ovando, they included. 

A Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks helicopter lands in Ovando, Mont., on Tuesday, July 6, 2021, after searching for a bear that killed a camper early that morning. (Tom Bauer/The Missoulian via AP)

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