▪️Trump on Biden's Camp David photo: "I think it was just a fake picture to try to show that he's working and he's not working... They don't know what they're doing."

▪️Taliban members called on people without passports or visas to urgently leave Kabul airport.

▪️Trump-appointed judge rejects mandate for mandatory vaccination against covid at Louisiana Medical School.

▪️Maricopa County has sent a notice to the Arizona State Senate to raise $2.8 million for new voting machines.

▪️The preliminary Arizona audit report will be delivered to the state Senate next week and released to the public shortly thereafter.

▪️Joe Biden is scheduled to return to his native and beloved Delaware today for a long weekend amid the crisis in Afghanistan.

▪️Hundreds of Afghans marched in downtown Brussels to draw attention to what is happening in Afghanistan as well as to speak out about the problem of Afghan refugees.

▪️Thousands of people wishing to come from Afghanistan to Russia, the Afghan diaspora in Moscow plans to ask the Russian authorities for help in bringing them in.

▪️The Washington Hospital is excluding patients from the transplant waiting list because they have not received the vaccine.

▪️Unvaccinated students at Quinnipiac University, USA, will face weekly fines and loss of Wi-Fi access.

▪️ California Governor Newsom sold his home for $5.9 million ahead of his own recall from office.

▪️The Australian government is building "mandatory quarantine facilities," officials say vaccination is "the golden ticket to freedom."

▪️A cyberattack on the servers of U.S. mobile operator T-Mobile US caused a leak of personal data of more than 40 million users.

▪️Google changed its algorithm so that negative stories about Trump from the mainstream media are what people saw when using the most visited site on the Internet, according to a Big Tech whistleblower.

▪️Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau: "If people don't have a medical exemption, they can't get on a plane or train in Canada provided they are unvaccinated.

▪️The Palantir company, known for its secret collaboration with the CIA and other government agencies, bought $50 million worth of gold bullion to counter a future "black swan" event (a theory that considers hard-to-predict and rare events with significant consequences for the world)

▪️U.S. health officials are urging all Americans "fully vaccinated" with Pfizer or Moderna vaccines to get a third booster dose against COVID-19. The new plan calls for an additional dose of Pfizer or Moderna eight months after the second vaccination.

▪️ The WHO advises against administering a third dose of coronavirus vaccine until people in poor countries have been vaccinated with at least one.

▪️The Georgia State Board of Elections is initiating an election audit in Fulton County.

▪️"There are so many breakthrough infections, they dominate, and most hospitalized patients are actually vaccinated," reports Uri Shalit, a bioinformatician at the Israel Institute of Technology.

▪️Twitter said the Taliban could stay on the platform if they "obeyed the rules" after the armed uprising at the presidential palace in Kabul and the takeover of Afghanistan.

▪️Trump lashed out at Twitter for allowing the Taliban to post tweets while he remains blocked from the social network.

▪️North Korea issued a navigational warning for the East Sea this week in preparation for a missile launch. China will conduct live-fire exercises in the Bohai Sea from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Aug. 24 (Beijing time); Observation and outside presence prohibited.

▪️Because of supply chain disruptions, British pubs are running out of beer.

▪️A new Japanese island appeared after an underwater volcano erupted.

▪️Trump accuses Pfizer of intending to enrich himself by revaccinating with booster vaccines.