Trump briefed on Kabul suicide attack

12/25/17 12:44 PM EST

The White House on Monday said President Trump was briefed on a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The attack, which took place in one of the compounds for Afghanistan’s national intelligence agency, left at least five people dead and two others wounded, according to Reuters.

Afghan security officials said the Christmas Day attack was carried out by a suicide bomber.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement to the organization's Amaq news agency.

The group took responsibility for an attack carried out at a training facility within the same agency last week.

The attacks come after the Iraqi government announced earlier this month that the bloody conflict with the terror group was over.

Winds scuttle Washington's crossing despite kids' efforts

Dec 25, 1:13 PM EST

http://www.foxnews.com /us/2017/12/25/george-washingtons-river-crossing-saved-by-group-kids.html

WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) – The kids did their part, but Mother Nature had the final say in scuttling the annual Christmas Day trip across the Delaware River by George Washington and his troops.

Organizers said high winds Monday prompted cancellation of the annual reenactment, which draws thousands of people to the banks of the river in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, and Titusville, New Jersey. The National Weather Service says winds have been gusting 45 or 50 mph or even a bit more in southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Low water levels in the river originally threatened to cancel the trip by re-enactors in their wooden Durham boats. But Philadelphia Waterborne, a nonprofit that teaches boat-building skills to middle- and high-school students, provided six handmade, 12-foot rowboats that could have made it across.