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Four-star general Scott Miller to resign today, reports say
Biden says all US troops with be withdrawn by end of next month

3.00pm BST
Joe Biden will hold a meeting this afternoon with the attorney general, Merrick Garland, and several leaders of major cities to discuss reducing gun crimes.
The White House has said that DC mayor Muriel Bowser, San Jose mayor Sam Liccardo and Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams will attend the meeting.
The rise in homicides likely translated into an additional 4,000 to 5,000 people killed across the country compared with the year before, according to early estimates. ...
And yet, even after an estimated 25% single-year increase in homicides, Americans overall are much less likely to be killed today than they were in the 1990s, and the homicide rate across big cities is still close to half what it was a quarter century ago. ...
Related: How bad is the rise in US homicides? Factchecking the ‘crime wave’ narrative police are pushing
2.36pm BST
Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger offered a rather pessimistic opinion of the situation in Afghanistan, describing the US military’s departure amid Taliban territorial gains as a “crushing defeat”.
Kinzinger, an Air Force veteran who was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, told NBC News yesterday, “The Taliban have outlasted the will of the United States.”
WATCH: Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) says the U.S. troop withdrawal in Afghanistan represents a “crushing defeat." #MTP@RepKinzinger: “The Taliban have outlasted the will of the United States… we may have to go back now.” pic.twitter.com/u95TOnVcTG Continue reading...