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‘It Was Not Stolen, Donald Trump Lost’: Paul Ryan Hits False Election Claims as Wisconsin Republicans Push for Audit

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan sat down for a rare interview with WISN’s Kent Wainscott and denounced Donald Trump’s continued false claims about the 2020 election.

Wisconsin is one of the states where Republicans are pushing for an election audit. Governor Tony Evers called it “outrageous” that Republicans plan on spending over $600,000 on an investigation, saying, “Apparently they’re all drinking the Kool-Aid.”

“It was not rigged, it was not stolen. Donald Trump lost the election. Joe Biden won the election. It’s really clear,” Ryan continued. “He exhausted the court challenges. None of them went his direction, and so he legitimately lost. Is there mischief and shenanigans in elections? Sure. Is there fraud? Yes. Was it organized to the extent that it would have swung the electoral college and the presidential election? Absolutely not.”

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-08-31/afghanistan-evacuees-land-philadelphia-hundreds-2730035.html

PHILADELPHIA (Tribune News Service) — A total of 883 evacuees from Afghanistan arrived at Philadelphia International Airport on Saturday and Sunday, and nine planes carrying hundreds more were expected Monday, according to city officials.

That would mark a dozen flights to set down here so far as part of Operation Allies Refuge, the U.S. military operation to airlift people out of the country.

Those arriving in Philadelphia — who may be Afghan nationals, U.S. citizens, or hold any of a variety of legal statuses — are being met by staff from city, state, and federal agencies, along with local hospitals and nonprofit organizations. The city turned a closed Terminal A-East into a staging and processing area, used after new arrivals have left the planes and been cleared through customs.

The city also is offering on-site interpretation in Dari, Pashto, Urdu and Farsi, and has set up space for prayer and religious observance. Muslims in Virginia sent out an urgent request Monday for 800 copies of the Quran and 800 prayer rugs for newly arrived Afghans stationed in Quantico.

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https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/570231-patients-in-us-health-care-facilities-are

“The pattern is clear,” said Maureen Huber, President of AMN Healthcare Workforce Technology Solutions, in a press release. “From Mandarin to Arabic to Swahili to Hmong, and many others, patients in U.S. healthcare facilities are speaking a broader array of languages than ever before.”

Nearly three-fourths of non-English patient-health care provider encounters nationally are in Spanish, according to the study, followed by Vietnamese, Mandarin and Cantonese, as well as American Sign Language (ASL), which was second-most common in 13 states and the District of Columbia.

Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, Haitian Creole and Korean are also in the top ten commonly spoken languages and the study noted that many of these languages originate from countries with significant refugee populations in the United States. In more than half the states, sub-Saharan African languages are also commonly spoken, according to the analysis of more than 110 million minutes of interpretation services by AMN over the last 12 months. Other languages in the top ten for all 50 states included Hmong, Tagalog, Hindi, Pashto, Polish and Khmer — to name a few.