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Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
In Kabul, Private Rescue Efforts Grow Desperate as Time to Evacuate Afghans Runs Out — Defense contractor Erik Prince charges $6,500 a person, other groups' planes leave Kabul empty — A disparate group of American veterans, military contractors, aid workers and former spies is scrambling …
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Sami Sadat / New York Times:
The Afghan Army Collapsed Against the Taliban. Here's Why. — General Sadat is a commander in the Afghan National Army. — For the past three and a half months, I fought day and night, nonstop, in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province against an escalating and bloody Taliban offensive.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
A Better Afghan Policy — What would it have been? — What might a more successful exit from Afghanistan have looked like? — I have spent some time talking with colleagues and experts about that question, and it is a difficult one to answer. President Biden's exit certainly has not gone well.
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Washington Post:
Two Congress members make unauthorized trip to Kabul amid evacuation efforts — Two members of Congress made an unauthorized whirlwind trip to Kabul early Tuesday, leaving less than 24 hours later on a flight used for evacuating U.S. citizens, allies and vulnerable Afghans.
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
How Mexico Helped The Times Get Its Journalists Out of Afghanistan
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Lara Jakes / New York Times:
How Many People in Afghanistan Need to be Rescued? The Number Remains Elusive.
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Leslie Josephs / CNBC:
Delta Air Lines is raising health insurance premiums for unvaccinated employees by $200 a month to cover higher Covid costs — Starting Nov. 1, unvaccinated Delta employees who have health insurance from the companywill face $200 monthly surcharges. — From Sept. 12 …
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Content Lab U.S.:
Johnson & Johnson Announces Data to Support Boosting its Single-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine
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Marina Villeneuve / Associated Press:
New NY governor adds 12,000 deaths to publicized COVID tally — ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul promised more government transparency on her first day in office and by day's end her administration had quietly delivered it by acknowledging nearly 12,000 more deaths in the state …
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Zachary Evans / National Review:
New York Governor Adds 12,000 COVID Deaths to Predecessor Cuomo's Count — New York governor Kathy Hochul's administration on Wednesday reported close to 12,000 additional coronavirus deaths that were unacknowledged by predecessor Andrew Cuomo. — Around 54,000 people died of COVID-19 …
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Select Committee to Investigate …:
Select Committee Issues Sweeping Demand for Executive Branch Records — Bolton, MS—Today, Chairman Bennie G. Thompson announced the Select Committee's first round of demands for records as the committee expands its investigation into the January 6th violent attack on the U.S. Capitol and its causes.
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Politico:
Secret Service warned Capitol Police about violent threats 1 day before Jan. 6 — Just a day before the Jan. 6 riot, the Secret Service warned the U.S. Capitol Police that their officers could face violence at the hands of supporters of former President Donald Trump, according to new documents reviewed by POLITICO.
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Karen Pearlman / Los Angeles Times:
Students from San Diego County school district stranded in Afghanistan — At least 24 students from the Cajon Valley Union School District in El Cajon and 16 parents are stranded in Afghanistan after taking a summer trip abroad. — They are among thousands of individuals waiting to leave …
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New York Times:
About 89% of Rental Assistance Funds Have Not Been Distributed, Figures Show — Just $1.7 billion in funds intended to prevent eviction were disbursed in July as the White House braces for a Supreme Court decision that could strike down its eviction moratorium.
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Christopher Condon / Bloomberg:
Federal Aid Is Failing to Reach Renters as Eviction Ruling Looms
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Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
As eviction crisis loomed, rental relief barely picked up in July
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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy makes at least 5 false claims in 7-minute Fox News interview — This is what Trump said about US' evacuation of Afghan allies — Washington (CNN)House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy made at least five false claims during a seven-minute Sunday interview on Fox News.
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
Infrastructure Summer: The Gottheimer Gang's Pointless Standoff — Conservative Democrats got a guarantee that the House would vote on the infrastructure bill by late September. But that changes nothing about the process. — The problem for the Gottheimer gang is they simply …
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Matthew Cooper / Washington Monthly:
House Democratic Moderates Have Reason to Boast
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New York Times:
A Taliban spokesman urges women to stay home because fighters haven't been trained to respect them. — When the Taliban were last in power, Afghan women were generally not allowed to leave their homes except under certain narrowly defined conditions. Those who did risked being beaten, tortured or executed.
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Jane Margolies / New York Times:
Offices Dangle Beehives and Garden Plots to Coax Workers Back — The latest perks include harvesting honey and digging in the dirt, part of a growing effort to give employees access to fresh air, sunlight and plants. — The investment company Nuveen has spent $120 million renovating …
Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
Prosecutor: South Dakota AG to take plea deal in fatal crash — PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg will avoid a trial and take a plea deal for misdemeanor traffic charges in a crash last year in which he hit and killed a man who was walking along a rural highway, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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Wall Street Journal:
CIA, U.S. Troops Conduct Missions Outside Kabul Airport to Extract Americans, Allies — Risky operations include helicopter lifts as evacuation window closes — WASHINGTON—The Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. military are conducting extraction operations to rescue Americans using helicopters …
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon requires military members get COVID-19 vaccine immediately — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered service members to “immediately begin” receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a Pentagon memo released Wednesday. — “To defend this Nation, we need a healthy and ready force.
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Alan I. Abramowitz / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
How Donald Trump Turned Off Swing Voters in 2020 — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The number of swing voters — those who change their minds between presidential elections — has been declining over time. — However, there are still some swing voters, and they can be decisive …
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
In First Interview From Jail, an Upbeat Navalny Discusses Prison Life — Russian political prisoners today are subjected to “psychological” pressure, said the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, who is forced to watch state TV for more than eight hours a day.
Marion Koopmans / Nature:
Origins of SARS-CoV-2: window is closing for key scientific studies … Marion Koopmans is head of the Department of Viroscience at Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar — Peter Daszak is president …
Associated Press:
‘Pain compliance’: Video shows trooper pummeling Black man — MONROE, La. (AP) — Graphic body camera video kept secret for more than two years shows a Louisiana State Police trooper pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight — an attack the trooper defended as “pain compliance.”
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats just launched a missile at the GOP's fortress of minority rule — Behind all the messy maneuvering in Congress right now is a hidden story: To an underappreciated degree, Democrats just launched a broadside against the edifice of minority rule that Republicans are busy constructing …
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