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U.S. Embassy / U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan:
Security Alert - Embassy Kabul, Afghanistan (August 21, 2021) — Event: Because of potential security threats outside the gates at the Kabul airport, we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions …
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William Saletan / Slate:
Pompeo Is Lying About Afghanistan — He laid the groundwork for the Taliban takeover. Now he's blaming Biden. — Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump's former secretary of state, blames President Joe Biden for the chaos in Afghanistan. “We're letting the Taliban run free and wild,” he complained a few days ago on Fox News.
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Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Biden's Inaccurate Claims in Defending Afghanistan Withdrawal
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Zhou Bo / New York Times:
How the U.S. Exit from Afghanistan Helps China
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Wall Street Journal:
What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?
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The White House:
Remarks by President Biden on Evacuations in Afghanistan
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Jamie Dettmer / Voice of America:
Hardline Haqqani Network Put in Charge of Kabul Security
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden Ran on Competence and Empathy. Afghanistan Is Testing That. — The chaotic endgame of the American withdrawal has undercut some of the most fundamental premises of President Biden's presidency. — For most of the last week, in the fires of the worst foreign policy crisis …
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Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Biden, Allies Frustrated With Media's Hawkish Coverage Of Afghanistan Withdrawal — After years of ignoring Afghanistan, many close to the Biden White House — and the president himself — feel some major outlets are adopting a pro-war stance. — As President Joe Biden ended his news conference …
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Daily Kos, Breitbart, Hackwhackers, The Western Journal, Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite, The Federalist and Responsible Statecraft
Politico:
Minnesota GOP ‘in ruins’ after shocking scandal — Less than a year ago, Minnesota looked every bit a swing state. Donald Trump was pouring millions of dollars into his campaign there, after nearly flipping the state in 2016, Republicans were making inroads in the ancestrally Democratic Iron Range.
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Los Angeles Times:
Biden focuses on domestic agenda, even as hot spots flare up elsewhere — Every morning this week at 8:45, a newly established “war room” has convened at the White House, with about 20 staffers logging onto a Zoom call to coordinate messaging and deployment of critical resources.
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Joan E Greve / The Guardian:
US omits Macron's plea for ‘moral responsibility’ from record of Afghanistan call
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Samuel Chamberlain / New York Post:
Biden scheduled to head to Delaware as Afghanistan crisis spirals
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
In Iowa, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz Take Trump's Baton — At a rally in Des Moines, Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz showed that many Republicans do not plan to move on from the Trump era. — DES MOINES — Far from Washington, and even farther …
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Alex Rogers / CNN:
Trump's rally in Alabama is a boon for Mo Brooks' Senate campaign — (CNN)Former President Donald Trump will rally the faithful in Alabama on Saturday, a boon to Rep. Mo Brooks, his favored Senate candidate, who is behind in the money race there and struggling to attract some Republicans unnerved …
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Phil Caputo / Politico:
‘The Temperature in Saigon Is 105 and Rising’ — As a Marine Corps veteran of Vietnam (1965-1966), a reporter who was among the last to be evacuated from Saigon by helicopter (1975) and a correspondent who covered the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan from the Afghan side (1980) …
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Political Wire
Susannah George / Washington Post:
The treacherous journey into Kabul airport to escape Taliban-controlled Afghanistan — Dispatch from Afghanistan — KABUL — Two days after the Taliban's sudden takeover of Kabul, we were given a chance to escape: seats on a chartered plane to Qatar set to take off from the city's airport within hours.
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Lauren Lumpkin / Washington Post:
University of Virginia disenrolls unvaccinated students ahead of fall semester — Officials said 49 students who have registered for fall classes are not in compliance with the school's vaccine mandate — Forty-nine students who registered for fall classes at the University of Virginia …
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National Review and The Hill
Wang Xiangwei / South China Morning Post:
For China, America's messy Afghanistan exit is more than a laughing matter — The catastrophic failure of American might against a ragtag opponent relying on Mao Zedong-style tactics has given Beijing a propaganda coup and Chinese media a field day But beyond the scorn lie serious questions …
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Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
Mississippi officials warn against using livestock ivermectin to prevent COVID-19 after rise in poison control calls — “Please don't do that,” the state health officer said. — Mississippi's poison control center has seen an increase in calls of people taking ivermectin …
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CNN:
Biden picks Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan and Nicholas Burns as top envoy to China — (CNN)President Joe Biden on Friday announced his intention to nominate Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan and Nicholas Burns as ambassador to China. — The two top diplomatic positions …
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Kevin Spear / Orlando Sentinel:
Orlando urges reduced water usage as liquid oxygen used to purify water goes to COVID patients — The city of Orlando and its water utility made an urgent appeal Friday afternoon for residents to cut back sharply on water usage for weeks because of a pandemic-triggered shortage of liquid oxygen used to purify water.
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New York Times:
Facebook, Fearing Public Outcry, Shelved Earlier Report on Popular Posts — The company praised itself this week for being “the most transparent platform on the internet.” — When Facebook this week released its first quarterly report about the most viewed posts in the United States …
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Ryan Cooper / The Week:
American media can't quit the forever war — Respecting the troops means keeping them in Afghanistan forever, it seems — The American mainstream media is throwing a classic tantrum over President Biden's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. We've got the hastily-assembled pieces telling …
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Washington Post, Associated Press and CNN
Washington Post:
Americans prepare to welcome thousands of Afghan refugees, even as political rhetoric heats up — As divisions emerge among some Republicans in Washington over how to handle the refugee crisis in Afghanistan, resettlement groups have been inundated with calls from ordinary Americans seeking …
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Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
The Elephant in the Room Republicans carefully run for president, not knowing if the last one will, too. — One night in June, hundreds of Republicans gathered in suburban Des Moines, Iowa, for two traditions: raising money for their party and listening to a presidential hopeful …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
The Hill Is Sold to a TV Giant — The political news publication, which started as an insider's guide to Washington and greatly expanded its audience after it went digital, fetched a price of $130 million. — The local television behemoth Nexstar Media Group announced Friday that it had acquired The Hill …
Payton Chung / Greater Greater Washington:
When it comes to population density, the region has a new neighborhood champ — We write about density frequently here at GGWash, and for good reason: great cities and regions are, fundamentally, about bringing a lot of people together — resulting in high population densities.
American Greatness:
A Life Destroyed for ‘Parading’ at the Capitol — Joe Biden, his Justice Department, and the news media don't care how many lives they destroy in this process. In fact, the more, the better. — After Robert Reeder was arrested in February and charged with four misdemeanors for his involvement …
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