{"id":679687,"date":"2021-08-24T12:06:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=679687"},"modified":"2021-08-24T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:06:21","slug":"biden-celebrates-2020-wnba-champs-amid-taliban-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-celebrates-2020-wnba-champs-amid-taliban-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden celebrates 2020 WNBA champs amid Taliban takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-celebrates-2020-wnba-champs-amid-taliban-takeover%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=679687&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2499405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2499405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden, left, talks with Seattle Storm\u2019s Jewell Loyd, center, and Breanna Stewart, right, during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, to celebrate their 2020 WNBA Championship. (AP Photo\/Susan Walsh)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 8:58 AM PT \u2013 Tuesday, August 24, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>As countless Americans remain in Afghanistan amid the recent Taliban takeover, it appears Joe Biden has different priorities.<\/p>\n<p>At the White House on Monday, Biden celebrated the 2020 Women\u2019s National Basketball Association champions. The Democrat then appeared all too eager to shift focus from their athletic achievements to their push of social justice movements like vaccinations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seattlestorm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SeattleStorm<\/a> don\u2019t just win games \u2014 they change lives. Whether it\u2019s encouraging people to get vaccinated or speaking out for racial justice, they are a force for change. It was an honor to host them at the White House today to celebrate their 2020 WNBA championship. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MW317KDwgG\">pic.twitter.com\/MW317KDwgG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 President Biden (@POTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1429972722570956804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, outside the White House this week dozens of concerned women have urged Biden to help those stranded in Afghanistan who are on the verge of losing all of their rights.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hundreds Of Afghans In US Protest Outside White House\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LTQNFCO53gY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/president-trump-points-out-fatal-flaw-in-biden-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\">President Trump Points Out Fatal Flaw In Biden Afghanistan Withdrawal<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden, left, talks with Seattle Storm\u2019s Jewell Loyd, center, and Breanna Stewart, right, during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}