2022 Breaking News Story

Relatives wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) attend the funeral of a man, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 21, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC260N95PT3X

Manisha Bashu (R) and her mother press the chest of her father, who is suffering from breathing problem, after he felt unconsicous while receiving oxygen support for free at a Gurudwara (Sikh temple), amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ghaziabad, India, April 30, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi - RC2C6N959MX8

A patient, wearing an oxygen mask, sits outside Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP), one of India's largest facilities for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients only, in New Delhi, India, April 22, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC201N9MC41R

A man carrying wood walks past the funeral pyres of those who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during a mass cremation, at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 26, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi - RC2P3N94R9MW

A man sits next to his wife, who is suffering from fever as she receives treatment at a clinic set up by a local villager, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Parsaul village in Greater Noida, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, May 22, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi - RC2SKN9C9VHM

A man runs past the burning funeral pyres of those who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during a mass cremation, at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 26, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC2P3N9SSDIW

Wife of Nanhe Pal, 52, cries as she pleads for oxygen support for her husband, who is suffering from breathing problem at a Gurudwara (Sikh temple), amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ghaziabad, India, May 3, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC268N9CCXQO

Flower garlands, fruits and a pair of sandals of a woman who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), are placed by her relatives on the spot where she was cremated, as part of a ritual at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, April 30, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC246N9ZZDKQ

A mass cremation of victims who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) takes place at a crematorium ground in New Delhi, India, April 24, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. Picture taken April 24, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

A woman cries during the cremation of her husband, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a crematorium in New Delhi, India May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC2P9N9XR1GF

Bags containing unclaimed ashes of victims who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), are seen at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, May 9, 2021. Picture taken May 9, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi - RC28CN9WVNCF

People prepare funeral pyres of those who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during a mass cremation, at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 26, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC2P3N9BFD5L

A military transport plane flies over relatives and neighbors of the Ahmadi family as they gather around an incinerated husk of a vehicle destroyed by a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. In August, life came to a standstill as the Taliban offensive reached the gates of the Afghan capital, sending it into a panic. President Ashraf Ghani escaped; American-backed Afghan forces pulled back. The Taliban swiftly took over a nation that had changed much since it first ruled two decades ago. Jarring, violent scenes followed, marking a tragic coda to a messy and controversial 20-year occupation. The U.S. was ending its longest war.

A child cries as a man carries a bloodied child on a road leading to KabulÕs airport. Others help a wounded woman on the ground in a scene of chaos as the Taliban secured its grip on the capital while tens of thousands of Afghans raced to the airport, hoping to be evacuated on U.S. military transport planes. Taliban fighters used gunfire, whips, sticks and sharp objects to violently rebuff thousands of Afghans on Aug. 17, 2021. At least a half dozen were wounded, including the woman and child.

Taliban fighters pray next to young Afghans outside a local mosque for evening prayers in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 26, 2021. In its nearly two-decade fight with the U.S., the Taliban worked at every turn to undermine the Afghan government, deriding its leaders as corrupt stooges whose forces could never protect citizens from the groupÕs ferocious attacks. But the Taliban is now in charge, and with power comes a daunting challenge: convincing Afghans Ñ many of them with bitter memories of the last time the fundamentalist group ran the country Ñ that it can govern and police as well as it can fight.

Women and children crouch in the sweltering heat at a Taliban-controlled checkpoint near Abbey Gate, an entrance to the Kabul airport on Aug. 25, 2021. They wait to make their way towards the British military-controlled entrance of the airport. Outside the gates, the bit of U.S.-held territory remaining in the country, bedlam became a daily event. Even those with permission to leave faced crushing crowds and uneasy Taliban fighters using truncheons, sticks, whips, rifle butts and bullets to disperse people around the airportÕs environs.

A wounded patient lies in the recovery unit at Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 26, 2021. A suicide bomber from the terrorist group ISIS-K struck Kabul airportÕs Abbey Gate entrance. The blast ripped through crowds of Afghans and foreign nationals. At least 170 civilians were killed in addition to 13 U.S. service personnel, and at least 200 people were wounded. The explosions complicated an already nightmarish airlift just before the U.S. deadline to remove its troops from the country.

Former Kabul Mayor Mohammad Daoud Sultanzoy, left, meets with new interim Mayor Hamdullah Namony at the Kabul Municipality office in Afghanistan on Aug. 28, 2021. ÒThe leadership of the Taliban, most are of the age that Ñ without mentioning to them Ñ they feel the change in Kabul every day, because they were here when it was inhabited by less than 500,000 people,Ó said Daoud Sultanzoy, KabulÕs 66-year-old mayor and one of the few top officials from the bygone state to remain in his post to ease the transition to interim Mayor Namony. He referred to the TalibanÕs first foray as rulers in 1996, when they entered a capital so destroyed by civil war that Òdogs eating corpses were roaming the streets. Now they came to a Kabul that was intact. With all of its flaws, it was a city that had life, that was functioning, it had services, markets, an economy Ñ so they inherited a better Kabul than they had 25 years ago.Ó

Family members and neighbors of the Ahmadi family gather to examine the wreckage caused by a hellfire missile launched from a U.S. drone that targeted a vehicle parked inside a residential compound in the Khwaja Burgha neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 30, 2021. The U.S. military says that the air strike was meant to target ISIS-K militants and retaliate for an airport bombing carried out by the terror group. Instead, it took the lives of 10 civilians Ð members of Emal AhmadiÕs family, including seven children. The U.S. would eventually call the strike a Òtragic mistake.Ó

A military transport plane departs overhead as Afghans hoping to leave the country wait outside the Kabul airport on Aug. 23, 2021. Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan earlier in August, more than 120,000 people were airlifted out of Afghanistan in one of the largest mass evacuations in U.S. history.

Mourners at a mass funeral look up and weep as the roar of jet engines drown out their wails in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 30, 2021. Fighter jets circled the hilltop cemetery where members of the Ahmadi family were burying 10 of their own Ð seven of them children Ð all victims of a U.S. drone strike. A full day before the U.S. military withdrawal approached its conclusion, death continued to haunt the war-torn country. The airstrike came in the wake of an airport bombing on Aug. 26 carried out by ISIS-K militants. The United States military claimed initially that it was targeting an alleged Islamic extremist who posed the threat of carrying out a similar attack. A month later, it reversed its position, but the Pentagon decided no American troops would be punished. Left to grieve and wonder, Emal Ahmadi could not understand how it could be that a family could die and no one be held accountable.

Afghans clamor to greet Khalil Rahman Haqqani, a senior member of the Haqqani network after he delivered a sermon for the first Friday prayers under Taliban rule at the Pul-i-Khishti Mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 20, 2021. The Haqqani network is a Taliban splinter group considered a terrorist organization by the United States and is one of the fiercest foes American forces spent two decades trying to vanquish in Afghanistan. Flanked by armed guards, Haqqani cradled a rifle: an American-made M-4 carbine. From the pulpit, he delivered a message that was by turns reassuring and menacing: Life under the Taliban would be different than under the deposed national rulers he derided as weak and corrupt. “We have freed Afghanistan from Western imperialism and the infidels. Afghanistan will now be a peaceful and prosperous country, where there will be security, no corruption, and no theft,” he said. All of the country’s various ethnicities and factions, he added, were “brothers.”

After the stroke of midnight, Taliban fighters from the Fateh Zwak unit storm into Hamid Karzai International Airport, while wearing American-made uniforms and brandishing American M4 and M16 rifles and riding U.S. pickup trucks on Aug. 31, 2021. For two weeks, Kabul’s airport was the last tether to America’s control in Afghanistan, its runways the site of a frantic airlift that spirited more than 120,000 people out of the country. But there was no more of that frenzied activity on the deadline of the U.S. withdrawal, hours after the last U.S. military transport plane rumbled into the night sky, closing the chapter on a 20-year U.S. intervention that ended the way it began: with the Taliban in control of Afghanistan.

Journalists from the Etilaat Roz newspaper, Nemat Naqdi, 28, left and Taqi Daryabi, 22, undress to show their wounds caused by beatings from Taliban fighters in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 8, 2021. The two were tortured while in custody after being arrested for filming a rally for women’s rights. The demonstrations came just one day after the Taliban revealed an all-male interim government made up of stalwarts with zero representation for women or ethnic minority groups – their promise of a more tolerant rule clearly broken. “They didn’t let me resist,” Daryabi said of the brutality he and his colleague suffered. He said he was shoved to the ground, tortured and beaten unconscious. He was taken to a yard and water was poured on him. He was still there when they brought Naqdi. “We were shouting that we are journalists. But they didn’t care,” Naqdi said. “I thought they were going to kill me…They kept on ridiculing us, asking if we were filming them.”

Migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. cross the Rio Grande river into Mexico as a U.S. Border Patrol agent monitors on a horse on the U.S. side of the bank near the International Bridge between Mexico and the U.S. in Del Rio Texas, U.S., as seen from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico. September 20, 2021. Some migrants decided to return back to Mexico to avoid deportation in the U.S.

Migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. take shelter in make-shift migrant camp near the International Bridge between Mexico and the U.S., as they wait to be processed, in Del Rio Texas, U.S. September 20, 2021.

Asylum-seeking migrants bathe in the Rio Grande river near the International Bridge between Mexico and the U.S. where they are waiting to be processed in Del Rio, Texas, U.S., September 16, 2021.

A migrant seeking asylum in the U.S. swims in the Rio Grande river near the International Bridge between Mexico and the U.S., where they are waiting to be processed in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, September 17, 2021.

Migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. walk in the Rio Grande river near the International Bridge between Mexico and the U.S., as they wait to be processed, in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, September 17, 2021. Migrants cross back and forth into Mexico to buy food and supplies.

Migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. grab onto a rope to guid them through the current while crossing the Rio Grande river into Mexico near the International Bridge between Mexico and the U.S. in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, September 20, 2021. Some migrants decided to return back to Mexico to avoid deportation in the U.S.

Migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. head to the Rio Grande river as they carry their belongings after leaving makeshift migrant camp in Braulio Fernandez Ecological Park in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, September 23, 2021. The migrants, mostly Haitians, had first been in the Del Rio camp, but had returned to Mexico in recent days. Now, as Mexican authorities prepared an operation to deport them from Mexico, they returned to the U.S. side to take their chances there.

U.S. Border Patrol agents on a raft holds a migrant child as seen from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, September 23, 2021. The migrants, mostly Haitians, had first been in the Del Rio camp, but had returned to Mexico in recent days. Now, as Mexican authorities prepared an operation to deport them from Mexico, they returned to the U.S. side to take their chances there.

Migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. reacts for being anxious as her child went ahead of her with U.S. Border Patrol agents while crossing the Rio Grande river into the U.S. after leaving makeshift migrant camp in Braulio Fernandez Ecological Park in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, September 23, 2021. The migrants, mostly Haitians, had first been in the Del Rio camp, but had returned to Mexico in recent days. Now, as Mexican authorities prepared an operation to deport them from Mexico, they returned to the U.S. side to take their chances there.

Migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. dry their clothes after crossing the Rio Grande river into the U.S. as seen from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, September 23, 2021. The migrants, mostly Haitians, had first been in the Del Rio camp, but had returned to Mexico in recent days. Now, as Mexican authorities prepared an operation to deport them from Mexico, they returned to the U.S. side to take their chances there.

A man held a portrait of Daunte Wright against the fence erected outside the Brooklyn Center Police Station Saturday night. Protesters gathered in response to the shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who was killed by ex-Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter, while Wright attempted to flee a traffic stop.

Friends and family of Daunte Wright held Wright’s best friend back, Emajay Driver, as he tried to reach the police line near the site of Wright’s death Sunday at 63rd Avenue Avenue North and Lee Avenue North in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Driver was working a shift at McDonalds and taking an order when he received a text that his friend was shot and killed by during a traffic stop. To Driver’s right, Daunte Wright’s brother, Damik Bryant.

A man leapt between Brooklyn Center police vehicles while protesters damaged the vehicles Sunday in response to the shooting death of Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man, down the street earlier that afternoon.

A man was helped off the pavement after being shot by riot police with a less-lethal round Sunday afternoon at 63rd Avenue North and Lee Avenue North Sunday. An intense confrontation with police took place hours after the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man, by ex-Brooklyn Center Police officer Kimberly Potter during a traffic stop.

A man accused Brooklyn Center Police of murder while screaming obscenities hours after the shooting death of Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man, during a traffic stop Sunday, April 11, 2021.

Zaniyah Davis, 15, and Tony Jefferson, 14, left and right, embrace tearfully after their friend Daunte Wright, 20, was killed by Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 63rd and Lee Avenues North in Brooklyn Center, Minn.

A firework explodes next to an officer’s head as he aimed a crowd-control weapon from the top of an armored Hennepin County Sheriffs Vehicle during a rally in response to the death of Daunte Wright, Tuesday, April 13, 2021 in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Wright was fatally shot during a traffic stop by Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter on Sunday, April 11.

Dispersants and less lethal rounds are fired at demonstrators by authorities during a protest in response to the death of Daunte Wright, Tuesday, April 13, 2021 in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Wright was fatally shot during a traffic stop by Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter on Sunday, April 11.

Dorcas Monari, of Ostego, Minn., chanted “Black Lives Matter” with a group of protesters outside the Brooklyn Center Police Station Saturday night. Monari has a four year old son who is in remission from a battle with cancer. She’s scared that he’ll beat cancer, only to be killed by a police officer one day. Protesters gathered nightly outside the Brooklyn Center Police Station for the week following the shooting death of Daunte Wright by ex-officer Kimberly Potter during a traffic stop.

Damik Bryant, Daunte Wright’s brother, and Emajay Driver, Wright’s close friend, reacted after the guilty verdict was read Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021 outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minn. A guilty verdict for both first and second degree manslaughter was delivered in the trial of ex-Brooklyn Center Police officer Kimberly Potter, who shot and killed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in April ] AARON LAVINSKY • [email protected]