Michael Fanone, the D.C. police officer who was dragged into a frenzied pro-Trump mob and beaten while fighting insurrectionists at the Capitol on Jan. 6, returned to work this week after eight months recovering from physical injuries and emotional trauma.

The 20-year veteran, one of the most outspoken and recognizable officers among hundreds who defended the Capitol, was assigned to the Technical and Analytical Services Bureau, which compiles and analyzes statistics used to develop crime-fighting strategies.

On Jan. 6, Fanone suffered a concussion and was repeatedly shocked on the back of the neck until he was unconscious. His heart stopped beating for a moment. A rioter took his badge and radio, and others tried to grab his firearms while shouting, “Kill him with his own gun!”

In the aftermath of the riot, authorities said about 140 Capitol and D.C. police officers were hurt when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in a failed effort to stop Congress from finalizing Joe Biden’s electoral-college victory. Officers were struck with poles and bats, dragged and sprayed with chemical irritants.

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Fanone said he found out Tuesday that he had been assigned to the analytics section. He reported for his first full day Wednesday.

Dustin Sternbeck, a D.C. police spokesman, confirmed that Fanone has returned to work and has been assigned to the Technical and Analytical Services Bureau.

Fanone, who is on modified duty with no firearm and no arrest powers, said he understands returning to street enforcement duties would not be wise at this time, feeling his time in the public eye might be a distraction. He said doctors have cleared him to return to the force in a limited capacity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/fanone-returns-capitol-insurrection/2021/09/09/981663c2-10f0-11ec-bc8a-8d9a5b534194_story.html

Meghan McCain has announced her first gig since departing The View.

McCain, who left the hit ABC show in June at the end of the 24th season, is joining The Daily Mail as a columnist.

“It’s a privilege to join the DailyMail.com team as a columnist. I’ve been an avid reader of the website for many years and have been impressed by its global influence and reach. It truly is a juggernaut,” McCain said in a statement to the outlet. “I’ve always respected the way DailyMail.com tackles issues across the entire political spectrum and I’m looking forward to sharing my own opinions without fear or favor on the important issues that matter to our readers across the globe.”

McCain also took to Twitter and confirmed the news to her social media followers.

https://www.mediaite.com/print/meghan-mccain-has-a-new-job-after-leaving-the-view/

So fast is the rush to sell and flee amid Afghanistan's diminishing economy that Jada-e Maiwand, a bazaar, has spilt from its usual confines onto the banks of Kabul's River

This is where @A_Loyd_Times found a father trying to sell his 4-year-old daughter

The value of the afghani has tumbled since the Taliban seized Kabul, resulting in a pawnbroker offering about £170 for the child.

Her father, a broken police officer trying to ward starvation away from a family of seven, was holding out to pawn his daughter for about £420.

“I would prefer to die than be reduced to selling my daughter,” Says Mir Nazir. “But my own death wouldn’t save anyone in my family. Who would feed my other children?”

Mir Nazir had lost his job with the police in Ghazni and fled to Kabul with his wife and five children days before the Taliban seized the capital. Now he was a bazaar porter. His rent outstripped his wages. The family were hungry, and there was no relief in sight.

Mir Nazir had a message for us:

“Don’t think I am any different to you. Don’t think I didn’t love the baby child I brought into the world and have loved her ever since, don’t think I am not distraught at the thought of selling my daughter – I just can’t see what else I can do.”

The Afghan economy, already sick before the victory of the Taliban has been kicked off a ledge.

The World Bank has halted aid to Afghanistan. The IMF has blocked access to $460 million in emergency reserves, and the US has blocked about $7 billion in Afghan bank reserves.

For a country with a cash-based informal economy in which 75% of public spending is dependent on foreign support, the severing of foreign cash lines has been catastrophic. Food prices have risen and hundreds of thousands of security sector and government workers are unemployed.

The former governor of the country’s central bank, Ajmal Ahmady, observed that analysts who suggested China and Pakistan would become Afghanistan’s financial supporters were unrealistic, as Afghanistan and the central bank were likely to be sanctioned entities.

The country’s physical cash supply is dwindling as the printing firms that produce afghani notes abroad, notably Poland and France, are probably unable to deliver the billions of afghanis agreed in existing contracts.

Not everyone is miserable. Overseeing the destitution of their fellow Afghans, the dealers in the bazaar along the Kabul River admit they have never had it so good, and most talked about a 50% profit rise since August 15.

Stephanie Grisham has quietly written a top-secret memoir of her four years in Donald Trump's White House, and a publishing source says she'll reveal "surprising new scandals."

What to watch: The book — "I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw in The Trump White House" — will be published Oct. 5 by Harper Collins.

A former West Wing colleague of Grisham's tells Axios: "When I heard this, all I could think about was Stephanie surrounded by a lake of gasoline, striking a match with a grin on her face."

A source close to the publication told Axios: "Grisham knows where all the bodies are buried because she buried a lot of them herself."

The source says Grisham "has receipts ... she was a press person and it was her job to make sure she knew what was happening."

Why it matters: Grisham is the only person to have served as a top aide to both President Trump (White House press secretary and communications direct0r) and first lady Melania Trump (chief of staff).

She knows the family well and will shed new light on their dynamics with her first-person account, the sources said.

Between the lines: Melania Trump guarded her privacy intensely and trusted almost nobody during her time as first lady. Grisham, as her chief of staff, was one of the very few allowed into her inner sanctum.

https://www.axios.com/scoop-the-most-dangerous-trump-expose-eb3a05e1-05d8-4b04-be38-a159a4f58713.html