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Red Lobster planned to close in Cayce [Video]

Roughly two dozen more Red Lobster locations are scheduled to close within the coming days as part of the seafood restaurant chains ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.A recent court filing shows that the company is rejecting the leases of an additional 23 locations by Saturday, August 31, joining the more than 100 restaurants that Red Lobster closed earlier this summer. Once complete, the chain will have around 500 outlets left a sharp decline from the 650 it had just last year.Red Lobster is in the process of selling itself to Fortress Credit Corp., a lender experienced in restaurant management that also owns Krystal, Logans Roadhouse and J. Alexanders. The firm recently gave the seafood chain a $100 million loan to allow it stay afloat.Mismanagement, competition, inflation and other factors brought down Red Lobster, which has been a pioneer in the restaurant industry. Thai Union, a global seafood supplier, became Red Lobsters leading shareholder in 2020 and filed for bankruptcy four years later in May.Under Thai Unions leadership, Red Lobsters culture turned toxic, former leaders told CNN. Red Lobster cut costs, removed longtime suppliers and implemented strategies that backfired, such as making $20 endless shrimp a permanent menu item. The chain lost $11 million on the endless shrimp deal.The new list of restaurants leases identified to be closed are likely to continue to drive losses and the company does not anticipate needing in order to operate their business going forward and can be rejected, the filing said.Here are the locations Red Lobster plans to close:Arizona-1521 S. Yuma Palms Pkwy., YumaCalifornia-8703 Murray Drive, La Mesa-8407 W. Markham St., Little RockColorado-4925 N. Academy Blvd., Colorado SpringsFlorida-326 Miracle Strip Pkwy., Fort Walton Beach-5110 N. 9th Ave., Pensacola-8909 U.S. Highway 19, Port RicheyGeorgia-6550 Tara Blvd., JonesboroIllinois-1604 N. State Road 50, Bourbonnais-902 Commons Drive, Geneva-4625 N. Sterling Ave., PeoriaIndiana-4353 Franklin St., Michigan CityMinnesota-8900 Golden Valley Road, Golden Valley-12515 Elm Creek Blvd. North, Maple GroveMissouri-2381 Maplewood Commons Drive, MaplewoodNew York-925 Hunts Point Ave., Bronx-750 Upper Glen St., QueensburyNorth Carolina-304 A Western Blvd., JacksonvilleOhio-17227 Southpark Center, StrongsvilleSouth Carolina-1270 Knox Abbott Drive, CayceVirginia-555 S. Van Dorn St., Alexandria-4415 S. Laburnum Ave., Richmond-709 Independence Blvd., Virginia Beach

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Trump tries to connect Harris to the chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal on anniversary of attack [Video]

Former President Donald Trump on Monday is expected to tie Vice President Kamala Harris to the chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal on the third anniversary of the suicide bombing that killed 13 service members.Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, laid wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery in honor of three of the slain service members Sgt. Nicole Gee, Staff Sgt. Darin Hoover and Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss. Later in the day, he was going to Michigan to address the National Guard Association of the United States conference.Monday marks three years since the Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport, which killed 13 American service members and more than 100 Afghans. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.On his Truth Social site Monday, Trump called the withdrawal the most EMBARRASSING moment in the history of our Country. Gross Incompetence – 13 DEAD American soldiers, hundreds of people wounded and dead.You dont take our soldiers out first, you take them out LAST, when all else is successfully done, he said in the post.Since President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid, Trump has been zeroing in on Harris, now the Democratic presidential nominee, and her roles in foreign policy decisions. He has specifically highlighted the vice presidents statements that she was the last person in the room before Biden made the decision on Afghanistan.She bragged that she would be the last person in the room, and she was. She was the last person in the room with Biden when the two of them decided to pull the troops out of Afghanistan, he said last week in a North Carolina rally. She had the final vote. She had the final say, and she was all for it.In a statement marking the anniversary of the Kabul airport attack, Harris said she mourns the 13 U.S. service members who were killed. My prayers are with their families and loved ones. My heart breaks for their pain and their loss, she said.Harris said she honors and remembers all Americans who served in Afghanistan.As I have said, President Biden made the courageous and right decision to end Americas longest war. Over the past three years, our Administration has demonstrated we can still eliminate terrorists, including the leaders of al-Qaeda and ISIS, without troops deployed into combat zones, she said. I will never hesitate to take whatever action necessary to counter terrorist threats and protect the American people.The relatives of some of the 13 American service members who were killed appeared on stage at the Republican National Convention last month, saying Biden had never publicly named their loved ones. The display was an implicit response to allegations that Trump doesnt respect veterans and had previously referred to slain World War II soldiers as suckers and losers accusations denied by Trump.In a statement Monday on the Kabul attack anniversary, Biden said the 13 Americans who died were patriots in the highest sense who embodied the very best of who we are as a nation: brave, committed, selfless.Ever since I became Vice President, I carried a card with me every day that listed the exact number of American service members who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistanincluding Taylor, Johanny, Nicole, Hunter, Daegan, Humberto, David, Jared, Rylee, Dylan, Kareem, Maxton, and Ryan, Biden said.Under Trump, the United States signed a peace agreement with the Taliban that was aimed at ending Americas longest war and bringing U.S. troops home. Biden later pointed to that agreement as he sought to deflect blame for the Taliban overrunning Afghanistan, saying it bound him to withdraw troops and set the stage for the chaos that engulfed the country.A Biden administration review of the withdrawal acknowledged that the evacuation of Americans and allies from Afghanistan should have started sooner, but attributed the delays to the Afghan government and military, and to U.S. military and intelligence community assessments.The top two U.S. generals who oversaw the evacuation said the administration inadequately planned for the withdrawal. The nations top-ranking military officer at the time, then-Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, told lawmakers earlier this year he had urged Biden to keep a residual force of 2,500 forces to give backup. Instead, Biden decided to keep a much smaller force of 650 that would be limited to securing the U.S. embassy.