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What's going on today:
- Biden's national security advisor says 'we can't count on' people getting safely to Kabul's airport despite talks with Taliban And anyway, evacuation flights for Americans and Afghans in Kabul are not guaranteed to be free as the country plunges into economic chaos in the wake of the Taliban takeover. In a security alert posted the day before Kabul fell to the Taliban, the Overseas Security Advisory Council said "repatriation flights are not free."
- Afghan women won't back down. Striking videos show Afghan women surging forward and leading men in a Kabul street protest against the Taliban. In one video, a woman is seen raising her fist and hustling the men around her to move forward and keep marching.
- Guards left behind. Guards for the UK embassy in Kabul say they were told they are ineligible for British protection because they were outsourced from a contractor. More than 100 guards for the UK embassy in Kabul were told they are ineligible for British protection because they were hired through a contractor.
- Behold, the Tesla bot. Elon Musk unveils 'Tesla bot,' a humanoid robot that would be made from Tesla's self-driving AI. "There will be profound applications for the economy," Musk said about the bot's future capabilities. "In the future, physical work will be a choice."
- The man who threatened to bomb the Capitol area live-streamed himself sitting in a truck, saying 'I'm ready to die for the cause." In the video, the man said he was a "patriot" and claimed that he had a toolbox with him full of explosives. Of course, then GOP Rep. Mo Brooks tweeted a sympathetic statement about the Capitol bomb threat suspect, prompting one lawmaker to call him "evil'."
- R. Kelly paid his doc in parties. R. Kelly didn't pay his doctor for decades-long STD treatment and instead flew him around the country for parties and concerts. Dr. Kris McGrath, a faculty member at Northwestern Medical School, began treating Kelly for STIs early as 1994.
- That's all for now. See you Monday.