Veteran-led rescue groups say the Biden administration’s estimate that no more than 200 U.S. citizens were left behind in Afghanistan is too low and also overlooks hundreds of other people they consider to be equally American: permanent legal residents with green cards.
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Some groups say they continue to be contacted by American citizens in Afghanistan who did not register with the U.S. Embassy before it closed and by others not included in previous counts because they expressed misgivings about leaving loved ones behind.

As for green-card holders, they have lived in the U.S. for years, paid taxes, become part of their communities and often have children who are U.S. citizens. Yet the administration says it does not have an estimate on the number of such permanent residents who are in Afghanistan and desperately trying to escape Taliban rule.

Read the rest of the article here:  www.military.com/daily-news/2021/09/05/rescue-groups-us-tally-misses-hundreds-left-afghanistan.html.

Blake Fussell, a contributor to Christian Post, wrote this article about the crisis of teen suicide in America.  Here's an excerpt.  You can read the full article at the Christian Post website by clicking the button below.

"Suicide and drug overdoses are killing more young people than COVID-19 as the two pre-existing epidemics have been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield warns.
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"In an interview with the Buck Institute for Research on Aging earlier this month, Redfield laid out that suicide and drug overdose have claimed more young lives during the pandemic than COVID-19, a disease that has been attributed to thousands of deaths nationwide this year.

"'We're seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from COVID,' Redfield explained. 'We're seeing far greater deaths from drug overdose that are above the excess that we had as background than we are seeing the deaths from COVID.'

"A June survey from The Addiction Policy Forum reported a 20% increase in substance abuse with 34% of respondents experiencing a change in their treatment and recovery due to the pandemic."

Alexander Zhang of The Epoch Times wrote an article about vaccine passports in the UK.  See the excerpt of what he wrote here, and click below at the button to read the rest of the article:

"The UK government will not introduce CCP virus 'vaccine passports,' but people will be able to ask their doctors for proof of vaccination if needed for international travel, Britain’s vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Sunday.

"The government has 'no plan of introducing a vaccine passport' because 'vaccines are not mandated in this country,' Zahawi told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show.

"'That’s not how we do things in the UK. We do them by consent. We yet don’t know what the impact of vaccines on transmission is and it would be discriminatory,' he said.