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7:50 AM ET, August 20, 2021

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Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
Confidential State Department Cable in July Warned of Afghanistan's Collapse  —  About two dozen State Department officials in Kabul sent an internal memo to Secretary of State Antony Blinken  —  WASHINGTON — About two dozen State Department officials serving at the embassy in Kabul sent …
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New York Times:
How News Organizations Got Afghan Colleagues Out of Kabul  —  The evacuation of those who worked for outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post came after a global rescue effort stretching from the Pentagon to Qatar.  —  For hours, they waited on the tarmac in the relentless heat …
Patrick Reilly / New York Post:
Oklahoma mom of 11 rescues members of Afghan all-girls robotics team  —  An Oklahoma mother of 11 flew to Afghanistan earlier this month to rescue 10 members of the country's all-girls robotics team, and hoping to save more as the Taliban takes power in Kabul.
Michael Crowley / New York Times:
Trump's Deal With the Taliban Draws Fire From His Former Allies  —  The former president and his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, are attacking President Biden over Afghanistan even as their own policy faces harsh criticism.  —  WASHINGTON — Days before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 …
James Jay Carafano / New York Post:
Call Afghanistan what it is: The worst hostage crisis in American history
Discussion: CBS News and The Daily Signal
New York Times:
Live Updates: Biden to Address Afghan Crisis as Desperation Builds at Kabul Airport
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Reuters:   Actions or words? Afghan journalists question Taliban's free press pledge
Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
A 17-year-old Afghan soccer player died falling from a U.S. evacuation plane.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Politico:
Biden and the political fallout from Afghanistan  —  This episode of Playbook Deep Dive examines Biden's first real foreign policy crisis and how it's scrambling politics on the Hill.  —  President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the worsening crisis in Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House on Aug. 16.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Reuters:
Biden's Afghanistan policy counts on issue fading in importance for war-weary voters  —  President Joe Biden is brushing off criticism of his administration's chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal because he and his aides believe the political fallout at home will be limited, according to White House allies and administration officials.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The Best and Brightest never recovered from Vietnam.  Will Biden's team fare better?  —  The Afghanistan disaster has rocked the Biden administration's foreign policy team, which may need months to regain its sense of balance and momentum.  —  Senior officials don't have time or emotional bandwidth …
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
What is the ‘Biden doctrine’? Afghanistan pullout offers clues
Discussion: Security, Cigars & FUD and MSNBC
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Elder's ex-fiancee said he brandished a gun at her  —  PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Alexandra Datig, the former fiancee and longtime radio producer for California GOP gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder, says she broke off an 18-month engagement with the conservative talk show host in 2015 …
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Joe Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:   California Rigging the Governor Election Against Larry Elder and Those Who Voted for Recall
Dave Lieber / Dallas Morning News:
If North Texas runs out of ICU hospital beds, doctors can consider a patient's vaccination status  —  This would be a big change in health care, but doctors have yet to announce it.  So The Watchdog does it for them.  —  North Texas doctors have quietly developed a plan that seeks to prepare …
BBC:
Afghanistan: Taliban carrying out door-to door manhunt, report says  —  The Taliban have stepped up their search for people who worked for Nato forces or the previous Afghan government, a UN document has warned.  —  It said the militants have been going door-to-door to find targets and threatening their family members.
Discussion: Agence France-Presse
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Reuters:   Taliban are rounding up Afghans on blacklist - private intel report
Frud Bezhan / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:   Thousands Of Afghans With Travel Documents Stranded In Kabul As Taliban Fighters Turn Them Away
German Election / DW.COM:
Relative of DW journalist killed by the Taliban  —  Journalists and their families are in grave danger in Afghanistan.  The Taliban have no compunction about carrying out targeted killings as the case of a DW journalist shows.  —  Taliban fighters hunting a DW journalist have shot dead …
James Barragán / The Texas Tribune:
After a nearly six-week exodus over GOP voting bill, enough Democrats return to Texas House to resume work  —  Democrat Reps. Garnet Coleman, Armando Walle and Ana Hernandez were the latest to rejoin the House on Thursday, narrowly clinching a quorum.  —  Copy link
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Washington Post:
Texas House reaches quorum after Democrats had blocked voting bill for weeks by leaving state
Discussion: CNN and ABC13
Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times:
Encounter with the Taliban: Punched, detained — then offered an energy drink  —  FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT AND PHOTOGRAPHER  —  When I headed out to work, it had been five days since the Taliban took over Kabul.  And it was Independence Day, a national holiday, when Afghans celebrate their country's independence from Britain in 1919.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Mac Stipanovich / Tampa Bay Times:
Ron DeSantis has ‘made a monumental mess of masking in public schools’ |  Column  —  Several school districts are doing the right thing despite the governor's threats, writes columnist Mac Stipanovich.  —  Ron DeSantis is a governor uninterested in actually governing …
Discussion: Raw Story
Bob Christie / Associated Press:
Appeals court orders Arizona Senate audit records released  —  PHOENIX (AP) — An appeals court on Thursday rejected an effort by the Arizona Senate to keep secret records of its ongoing review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County that are in the possession of the contractors conducting the recount.
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker / wicker.senate.gov:
Wicker Office Statement on COVID-19 Diagnosis  —  WASHINGTON - The Office of Senator Roger F. Wicker Communications Director Phillip Waller today issued a statement after Senator Roger F. Wicker tested positive for COVID-19:  —  “Senator Wicker tested positive this morning for the COVID-19 virus …
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king.senate.gov:
Senator King Announces Positive Test for Coronavirus
Discussion: New York Times, Breitbart, UPI and Forbes
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
OnlyFans to Block Sexually Explicit Videos Starting in October  —  OnlyFans is getting out of the pornography business.  —  The company will prohibit users from posting any sexually explicit conduct, starting in October.  Creators will still be allowed to post nude photos and videos …
Alexei Navalny / The Guardian:
Only action against corruption can solve the world's biggest problems  —  In a message from his prison cell, the jailed Russian opposition activist calls for the west to take sanctions against oligarchs  —  xactly one year ago, I did not die from poisoning by a chemical weapon …
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Almost all eligible Georgians are registered to vote, data shows  —  Federal election report: 95% of voting-age Georgians registered  —  Georgia now has one of the highest voter registration rates in the nation, with 95% of citizens over 18 years old signed up to vote, according to federal election data released this week.
Daily Mail:
Fox News' Greg Gutfeld is crowned new king of late night television after he scores 220K MORE viewers than Colbert's Late Show on CBS  — Comedian Greg Gutfeld's show pulled in the most viewers during Tuesday's late night time slot with about 2.12 million  — Gutfeld! debuted in April …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Unvaccinated terror: Proud Boys push the anti-vaccination movement into a violent threat  —  The violent, fascist energy of January 6 didn't just disappear  —  After the January 6 insurrection at the U.S Capitol, domestic terrorism experts were worried about the potential for more violence.
 
 
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Laura Rozen / Diplomatic,:
Afghan crisis reveals broken US confirmation process
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Iain Axon / Reuters:
Former Afghan women's captain tells players to burn kits, delete photos
Discussion: Euractiv, Breitbart and VICE
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