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Spanish citizens residing in Afghanistan and Afghans board a military plane in Kabul on Wednesday. (Ministry of Defense of Spain/Reuters)
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Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) in 2020. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP)
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A family arriving from Afghanistan walks into Pakistan at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border town of Chaman, Pakistan, on Friday. (Reuters)
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The Paris Independent School District announced that students and employees would be required to wear masks and that Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order did not prevent them from doing so.
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Friends and family display flowers and signs after the funeral at Temple of Praise church in D.C. (Michael Blackshire/The Post)
The girl and her family were walking home in their Southeast Washington neighborhood when shots were fired. She was killed, her mother was shot and hospitalized, and four other adults, including her father, were wounded.
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Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen has 350,000 Twitter followers. (AP)
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