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WKRN-TV:
Conservative talk show host Phil Valentine dies after COVID-19 battle — You have been added to News 2 Breaking News Newsletter — FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WKRN) — Conservative radio talk show host Phil Valentine has died after weeks in a Nashville area hospital battling COVID-19, according to his station, SuperTalk 99.7 WTN.
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Ben Hall / WTVF-TV:
Outspoken conservative radio host Phil Valentine dies after battling COVID-19 — NASHVILLE, Tenn (WTVF) — Conservative talk radio host Phil Valentine has died following a lengthy battle with COVID-19. He was 61 years old. — His death was announced by SuperTalk 99.7 WTN on Saturday afternoon …
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Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Conservative Radio Host Who Mocked Vaccines Dies of COVID-19 — Phil Valentine derided coronavirus vaccines, but he changed his tune when he was hospitalized. — A conservative radio host in Nashville who derided vaccines and spread misinformation about the coronavirus has died of COVID-19.
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New York Times:
This Is How the U.S.'s Afghanistan Exit Plan Unraveled — President Biden promised an orderly withdrawal. That pledge, compounded by missed signals and miscalculations, proved impossible. — WASHINGTON — The nation's top national security officials assembled at the Pentagon early …
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Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Biden to address nation on Afghanistan evacuation Sunday afternoon — President Biden is scheduled to address the nation Sunday afternoon to provide updates on the administration's evacuation efforts in Afghanistan, as pressure continues to mount for his security team to safely transport thousands …
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Facebook says post that cast doubt on covid-19 vaccine was most popular on the platform from January through March — The social-media platform's Saturday evening acknowledgment comes after a lengthy internal debate over whether to share data. — Facebook said Saturday evening …
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Washington Post:
Pentagon hints at more rescues outside Kabul airport, amid new security concerns and evacuation bottleneck — The Pentagon on Saturday strongly hinted that U.S. troops may stage further operations outside the Kabul airport to help evacuate stranded American citizens and Afghans who aided the war effort …
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ISIS terror threat forces US military to establish alternate routes to Kabul airport
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Mike Allen / Axios:
What Biden didn't know about Afghanistan — The next time President Biden takes questions …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Considers Ordering Commercial Airlines to Help in Afghan Evacuation — The Biden administration is making preparations to invoke an emergency civil aviation program, while adding to the number of U.S. bases that can house Afghan evacuees. — WASHINGTON—The Biden administration …
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Mary Stanik / MinnPost:
On an encounter with Unvaccinated America at the hospital — News that the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is swamping hospitals nationwide has made me think of some of the difficult days I spent in a hospital as a University of Minnesota medical center spokesperson.
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Former Pence aide says Trump and Miller stymied Afghan refugee efforts. — A top homeland security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence accused the Trump administration of distorting the truth about Afghan refugees, writing on Twitter that the former president and Stephen Miller …
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Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Pence aide blames Stephen Miller for ‘devastating’ visa system for Afghans
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David Zucchino / New York Times:
Desperation as Afghans Seek to Flee a Country Retaken by the Taliban — A surging crowd trampled a toddler to death near the airport, and many residents who aided America remain in hiding, fearing they will be killed by their new rulers. — On Saturday morning, a former interpreter …
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Tony Blair / Institute for Global Change:
Why We Must Not Abandon the People of Afghanistan - For Their Sakes and Ours … The abandonment of Afghanistan and its people is tragic, dangerous, unnecessary, not in their interests and not in ours. In the aftermath of the decision to return Afghanistan to the same group from which the carnage …
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Edward Malnick / Telegraph:
Tony Blair slams Joe Biden's ‘imbecilic’ retreat from Afghanistan — America shuts Kabul airport as Dominic Raab is forced to turn to China and Russia for help in Afghanistan — Tony Blair has launched a furious attack on Joe Biden's “imbecilic” withdrawal from Afghanistan …
Tampa Bay Times:
Florida's COVID deaths climb as children lead state in positivity rate — The state reports 1,486 deaths and 150,118 new coronavirus infections as the pandemic starts to affect young Floridians. — Florida's pandemic is getting deadlier and infecting more children.
Jason Linkins / New Republic:
The War in Afghanistan Was a Scam — “War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.... It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” — These words, penned …
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Daily Mail:
Taliban soldiers wearing U.S.-made gear mock iconic World War II image of Marines raising flag on Iwo Jima in 1945 and release propaganda footage showing them armed with American weapons while on patrol in Afghanistan — The Taliban's Badri 313 Battalion released a collection of propaganda footage this past week
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Emma Colton / Fox News:
Elite Taliban unit wearing US gear appears to mock iconic American WWII photo
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Lauren Vella / The Hill:
Pelosi says House working to pass infrastructure bills by Oct. 1 — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Saturday that the lower chamber is “hard at work” to pass both a bipartisan infrastructure bill and a larger, Democrat-backed spending package by Oct. 1.
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