If all goes according to plan, the United States will withdraw all of its troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021 — the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The United States has been fighting wars in the Middle East ever since, including the Afghanistan War. It's one that former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump said at various points they would bring to a close. Now, reports say that the Biden administration will bring it to an end. He won't use the May 1 target date that Trump set but rather, he is giving the country more than four additional months to get it done — if the administration goes through with it.
Brookline town officials are disappointed that they did not hire any Asian-Americans during the first quarter of 2021.
The town hired 12 new employees between January 1 and March 31, tracking them by race. One quarter are black, one quarter are Latino, half are white – but none are Asian.
