But a new report released Tuesday by the U.S. government’s congressionally mandated watchdog on Afghanistan and obtained by Newsweek details two decades of failures that led up to the historic events still unfolding in the capital city of Kabul and across the country. A devastating array of shortcomings are outlined in the latest report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), including attempts to establish mismatched Western institutions to shifting missions throughout successive administrations, and fueling Afghanistan’s endemic corruption with corner-cutting projects that ultimately never came to fruition....

NEWSWEEK: “The Nightingale’s Song” has an interesting approach: using five men to explain a notion you had about Vietnam. Robert Timberg: When Iran-Contra broke, I was the White House correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, and three people [McFarlane, Poindexter and North] who had worked in the White House were right at the heart of it. Since I shared their background in various ways, I got a sense that there was something going on I wanted to know more about....

In two seperate deals, they turned Isaiah Thomas, Derrick Rose, Channing Frye, Jae Crowder, Iman Shumpert and their first-round pick in the upcoming NBA Draft into George Hill, Rodney Hood, Larry Nance Jr. and Jordan Clarkson. They then traded Dwyane Wade back to the Heat in a third deal in return for a “heavily protected second-round pick.” MORE: Ranking worst NBA trades of last decade The Cavaliers had the oldest roster in the NBA prior to their dealings on Thursday and clearly wanted to get younger heading into the playoffs....

According to data released on the Small Business Administration website, about to $192.5 billion dollars have already been distributed to over 2.68 million businesses from April 27 through May 13 during the second round of the PPP, meaning over $120 billion in funds are still available. Small businesses still looking to apply for a loan can do so through any existing Small Business Administration lender or “through any federally insured depository institution, federally insured credit union, and Farm Credit System institution that is participating,” according to the SBA website....

Klinsmann, who was fired in November after losing the first two games of the Hexagonal, incorporated many players into the U.S. national team who were raised outside of the United States, including Julian Green, Aron Johannsson, John Brooks, Fabian Johnson and Timmy Chandler. “Jurgen Klinsmann had a project to unearth talent around the world that had American roots. But having American roots doesn’t mean you are passionate about playing for that country,” Howard told USA Today....

Huawei is best known for phones and tablets, but the company is now branching out to monitors, including this gaming monitor, which I’ve been testing for several weeks with a MacBook Air for work, the Xbox Series S and an Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop. The Huawei MateView GT specs are good, and the price is right at 548 euros (approximately $645) in Germany and China. This is a tempting option for gamers, but there are a few catches....

Consider Huawei’s handset business, which depends on high-end chips manufactured by Taiwanese foundries. Because the Taiwanese use some American equipment to manufacture the chips, the U.S. has imposed an effective blockade on Huawei’s outsourcing, and China does not (yet) have the domestic capability to make high-end chips. A similar ban blocks Huawei’s access to key American chip-design software. Huawei will lose market share in the low-margin handset business, and Chinese competitors like Xiaomi will pick up the slack (which explains why the latter’s stock price has jumped this year from HK$8 to HK$22)....

The image indicates that the properties of the comet—known as 2I/Borisov—are very similar to those found in the building blocks of our own solar system. The comet is only the second known interstellar object to have passed through the solar system. it was discovered by amateur astronomer, Gennady Borisov in August this year. The only previous interstellar visitor—dubbed ‘Oumuamua by scientists—was spotted in 2017 speeding through our cosmic neighborhood before it passed beyond the borders of the solar system....

The image shows what’s known as an “open cluster” called NGC 2164, which is found within a satellite galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). According to the European Space Agency, open clusters are “loosely bound groups of a few tens to a few hundred stars” that are found in spiral and irregular galaxies. These clusters of stars, which can be young or old, are not particularly stable due to their open and diffuse structures....

The three could never fully find it. Years would pass when they could laugh and live like everyone else: Kennedys, yes, but not so terribly different from the rest of us. Then the fabric would tear again. The cliches they fled–“cursed,” “tragic” and so on–pursued them like some Shakespearean ghost, pulling them ceaselessly into the past. But they refused to live there, preferring always to look ahead, even as they kept an eye out for those left behind....

Either you’re polishing your resume for the next jump to something bigger, or you’re losing and removing all doubt about your ability to coach at the FBS level. It’s not fair, but who says coaching is fair? We continue Sporting News’ annual ranking of the nation’s coaches with the Sun Belt Conference, and the clear leader, Louisiana-Lafayette’s Mark Hudspeth — a coach in a clear steppingstone position. 1. Mark Hudspeth, Louisiana-Lafayette One of the most overlooked coaching jobs in all of college football....

The skeleton is the largest and most complete of its kind ever found in the United Kingdom, and experts say it’s the first ichthyosaur of its species (Temnodontosaurus trigonodon) to be found in the country. The sea dragon was uncovered in the Rutland Water Nature Reserve—located in England’s smallest county—on land owned by a water company during the routine draining of a lagoon island for re-landscaping purposes. Joe Davis, a conservation team leader at Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust, which operates the nature reserve alongside Anglia Water, was the individual who discovered the almost complete ichthyosaur skeleton, which measures around 33 feet in length and features a 6....

Sjoerd Groeskamp, from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and Joakim Kjellsson, at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, have described the idea in a paper accepted for publication in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. They were exploring the idea of a massive dam as a kind of thought experiment to highlight the potentials risks of sea level rise on the region. They stress it is a not a plan for an actual infrastructure project....

In the footage, captured by Ring, the alligator can be seen making its way through the garden in Titusville, Florida. Sounds of other wildlife can be heard in the background. There are about 1.3 million alligators in Florida. Most residents know how to stay clear of them, however, sometimes they end up wandering into properties. Dan Powell told Newsweek he was home when this particular alligator walked through his backyard....

Butland 23/10 for clean sheet Saturday Hart started both World Cup qualifiers for Gareth Southgate’s side earlier this month, helping England to two wins as they took a step closer to Russia 2018. Hughes believes Butland, who missed most of last season after ankle surgery, had shown early in the Premier League campaign he was perhaps in better form than West Ham’s Hart. “I haven’t talked to anybody at England about it,” Hughes said of his shot-stopper, via the Stoke Sentinel....

Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of Nazi concentration camps, became a great Nazi hunter. He taught us that freedom is not guaranteed: “We must fight for it every day.” Freedom is contingent on people’s choices and actions and carries a responsibility toward those who are not yet free. Yet continuously, the free world has stood by as the rights of others are brutally trampled and as atrocities that echo the unspeakable barbarism of the Holocaust unfold unimpeded....

Abel Hernandez’s double and a Tyrone Mings own goal lifted the Tigers to 18th as the three teams who were immediately above them, Sunderland, Swansea City and Crystal Palace, all lost. Silva had led Hull to victory in the FA Cup in his first game in charge but this was their first win in 10 Premier League games - a run that led to Mike Phelan’s sacking. Robert Snodgrass’ form has been the key factor in City clinging on at the bottom, but the burden was lifted off the Scotland international by Hernandez this time, as he headed home to cancel out Junior Stanislas’ early penalty before scoring a brilliant solo effort after the break....

Frankly, we’ve had enough. There’s a small but growing movement of users who are no longer willing to sit back and have our human rights infringed and our culture denigrated. For many of us, drug use is a dynamic and exciting social activity and forms a key part of our culture. As such, drug use is clearly protected by the United Nations Charter on Human Rights. Some may argue that drug-related risks are self-inflicted....

The vaccine the company is creating through Janssen Pharmaceuticals, its drug development arm, joins 10 others that have already entered the clinical stage of development, which means they have received necessary approvals to begin testing on human subjects. “Based on the strength of the preclinical data we have seen so far and interactions with the regulatory authorities, we have been able to further accelerate the clinical development of our investigational SARS-CoV-2 vaccine,” Paul Stoffels, the chief scientific officer with Johnson & Johnson, said in a Wednesday news release....

The illness, called feline pancytopenia, describes a condition in which a cat’s blood cell levels (white, red, and platelets) fall below average. With symptoms ranging from moderate (tiredness, lack of appetite) to severe (bleeding from the mouth, collapsing, blood in feces or urine), the illness can prove fatal for cats, says Blue Cross for Pets. One potential cause of pancytopenia comes from mycotoxins, or “toxic compounds that are naturally produced by different types of fungi,” according to the Royal Veterinary College (RVC)....