15th Annual Stand Up for Heroes Supports Veterans Impacted by COVID-19 and Afghanistan Pullout

Editor’s Note: As the Taliban tightens its grip on Afghanistan, veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author Hollie McKay, who has remained in the country almost continuously since the U.S. withdrawal at the end of August, spotlights both the necessity and difficulty of talking to members of the Islamic fundamentalist group as part of her role as a journalist.

Kim Kardashian West has a passion to help people and the bank account to be able to do it. On Tuesday, November 18th the Associated Press revealed that a New York rabbi, a U.K.

A dad who lived and studied in Salford has been trapped in Afghanistan for three months as he and his family fear for their lives.

Jon Stewart’s new Apple+ series posted a Veterans Day podcast on Thursday that features an interview with Staff Sergeant Wesley Black, who died on Sunday, shortly after the episode was recorded.

Prince Harry reflected on his time serving in the military. On Wednesday, the Duke of Sussex honored veterans at the 2021 Salute to Freedom Gala at New York City’s Intrepid Museum ahead of Veterans Day in the U.S.

Michele Amabile Angermiller Military veterans are often honored for their service and remembered on traditional holidays: Memorial Day, Pearl Harbor Day and Veterans Day.

Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy are about to star in a feature together.

Meghan Markle is explaining her position.

Nolfi, whose writing credits include “The Bourne Ultimatum” and “The Adjustment Bureau,” will write the script based on true events. The film will follow three former special forces soldiers who jump back into battle alongside their Afghan counterparts on a last-ditch rescue mission to save allies and their families as the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August.

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired an untitled original pitch from George Nolfi, a ripped from the headlines fact-based drama about the Afghanistan evacuation. Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy are attached to star.

Big news stories always tend to find themselves turned into films and TV shows eventually. And when the evacuation of the American military in Afghanistan became headline news this summer, mainly for how it was seemingly mishandled, it became clear that someone in Hollywood would quickly jump on it.

Stuart Miller After a year lost to the pandemic, the New York Comedy Festival returned to live performances with its fifteenth annual star-studded Stand Up for Heroes benefit on Monday nights. And one of the biggest laughs came from a meandering joke about a “voodoo penis” delivered by a 72-year-old amateur.

Prince Harry, 37, will attend the Veterans Day event in New York and will hand out five prizes to forces heroes. Harry served two tours himself in Afghanistan but he is banned from wearing military uniform when he attends the event as he was stripped of his honorary military titles when he stepped down from royal duties and moved with his wife, Meghan Markle, 40, to California.

Manori Ravindran International EditorA timely new documentary chronicles a British solder’s return to Afghanistan, just as U.S.

Ahead of being inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame this weekend, Jay-Z was in a New York court on Friday for a tense back and forth with the legal representative of perfume company Parlux. The rapper often provided vague answers to attorney Anthony Viola’s questions or responded with questions of his own.

Editors’ Note: The fallout from the abrupt U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August has been perhaps most harshly felt by the women and girls of the South Asian nation, as veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author Hollie McKay has discovered in her return to the now Taliban-controlled country.