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David Rothkopf / The Atlantic:
Biden Deserves Credit, Not Blame, for Afghanistan — America's longest war has been by any measure a costly failure, and the errors in managing the conflict deserve scrutiny in the years to come. But Joe Biden doesn't “own” the mayhem on the ground right now.
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The Column, BizPac Review, Ace of Spades HQ, The Guardian, Fox News, The American Spectator, New York Times and Slate
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Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
American University of Kabul students and alumni trying to flee were sent home. — Hundreds of students and alumni of American University of Kabul gathered at a safe house on Sunday and boarded buses in what was supposed to be a final attempt at evacuation on U.S. military flights, students and alumni said.
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BizPac Review, Mediaite, Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Mother Jones
Nabih Bulos / Los Angeles Times:
Family says 7 children were killed in Kabul drone strike; U.S. is investigating — After a day at work, Ezmari Ahmadi was just arriving at his home Sunday in Khwaja Burgha, a working-class neighborhood a few miles west of Kabul's airport, when calamity struck.
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Insider, The Daily Caller, BizPac Review and Wall Street Journal
Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
Rockets fired at Kabul airport amid US withdrawal hit homes — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Rocket fire apparently targeting Kabul's international airport struck a nearby neighborhood on Monday, the eve of the deadline for American troops to withdraw from the country's longest war after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
American Greatness:
Our Afghan Nightmare: Tanks for Nothing — Afghanistan has been reinvented as the best-equipped terrorist nation in the world, basking in the prestige of humiliating the world's superpower. — Joe Biden's scripted or no-questions press conferences, and the clean-up afterward by Antony Blinken …
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HotAir, New York Times, theepochtimes.com, Associated Press, Power Line, Politico and Mercury News
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Be Glad Donald Trump Isn't Running the Show in Afghanistan — It is of course impossible to say how the Afghanistan withdrawal would have gone down if Donald Trump had still been in the White House instead of Joe Biden. But we can say this much: Whatever happened, the entire Republican Party …
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Washington Examiner, Salon, Mercury News and Political Wire
U.S. Central Command:
U.S. Central Command statement on defensive strike in Kabul
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Washington Post, Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, CNBC, National Review, Wall Street Journal, Townhall, Townhall, UPI, Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera, CNN, Just The News and WBBH-TV
Anita Kumar / Politico:
As Biden winds down Afghanistan, a refugee backlash looms at home
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CNN and Associated Press
Dave Lawler / Axios:
What Taliban rule will look like in the new old Afghanistan
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New York Times and HotAir
Wall Street Journal:
Trapped in Afghanistan, Rescued by Volunteers: How a Handful of Americans Freed 5,000 Afghans
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Impeach Biden — He committed treason. 13 Americans died. He should pay the price.
Lara Seligman / Politico:
Pentagon prepared for ‘mass casualty’ attack at Kabul Airport hours before explosion
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NBC News
Ahmed-Waleed Kakar / Newlines Magazine:
Taliban, the Next Generation
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Common Dreams and Boston Herald
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Chris Wallace slams McConnell's desire for ‘full-scale war’ after he calls Afghanistan a ‘complete success’
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POLITICUSUSA, Reuters, Breitbart and Politico
David Zucchino / New York Times:
U.S. Conducts Drone Strike in Kabul and Winds Down Airlift as Deadline Nears
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Wall Street Journal, Boston.com, Outside the Beltway and Raw Story
Amie Just / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
All of New Orleans without power after Hurricane Ida leaves ‘catastrophic transmission damage’ — A slow-moving Hurricane Ida has left all of Orleans Parish customers without power due to “catastrophic transmission damage,” according to Entergy New Orleans.
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Associated Press:
Ida weakens as rescues begin and damage checked in Louisiana — NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida became a tropical storm as its top winds slowed over Mississippi on Monday, while across southeast Louisiana residents waited for daylight to be rescued from floodwaters and see how much damage …
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Wall Street Journal:
Ida Makes Landfall Near New Orleans, Downgraded to Category 3 Hurricane — Storm is expected to be fiercest to hit the city since Hurricane Katrina caused mass destruction; All of New Orleans loses power — NEW ORLEANS—Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday and battered this city …
Yelena Dzhanova / Insider:
An 88-year-old professor in Georgia resigned in the middle of class because a student refused to wear a mask over her nose: 'That's it, I'm retired' — A professor from the University of Georgia resigned last week after a student refused to wear a mask in class.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Recorder and Slate
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James Osborne / Houston Chronicle:
You want tyranny? A war hero died because hospitals were full of COVID patients. — A little over a week ago, as U.S. soldiers risked their lives flying tens of thousands of Afghans and Americans to safety, U.S. Army veteran Daniel Wilkinson — who earned a Purple Heart in Afghanistan …
Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
Rand Paul Claims ‘Hatred for Trump’ Hindering Research Into Ivermectin as COVID Treatment
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The Guardian and POLITICUSUSA
Dan Levin / New York Times:
The U.S. reaches 100,000 average daily Covid hospitalizations for the first time since winter.
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Reason and Balloon Juice
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Inside Politico's Billion-Dollar Drama — From “son of” to mogul in his own right: Robert Allbritton just became the unlikeliest winner of the new media sweepstakes. — I was sitting in a bar next to John Harris, a former national editor of The Washington Post.
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The Obvious Voting-Rights Solution That No Democrat Will Propose — Democrats in Congress are considering a policy that was long unthinkable: a federal requirement that every American show identification before casting a ballot. But as the party tries to pass voting-rights legislation …
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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
CDC: Unvaccinated teacher caused an outbreak in classroom — An outbreak at an elementary school classroom in San Francisco appears to have been caused by an unvaccinated teacher who was occasionally unmasked, a new case study out Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
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CNN:
January 6 committee to ask telecommunications companies to preserve phone records of members of Congress who participated in ‘Stop the Steal’ rally — (CNN)The House Select Committee investigating the deadly January 6 riot is set to request that a group of telecommunications companies preserve …
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POLITICUSUSA, Washington Times, The Hill and Just Security
Brian C. Joondeph / American Thinker:
Who's Skipping the Vaccine? The Answer May Surprise You — Big media has been in overdrive pushing COVID vaccinations, at least after Joe Biden was ensconced in the White House. Remember that when Donald Trump was still president, the vaccines were suspect, simply because Trump played a major role in their development and rollout.
Reed Galen / Miami Herald:
Florida's DeSantis has eye on presidency rather than COVID — There are two dates at the top of Gov. Ron DeSantis' head: June 17, 2022, and Aug. 23, 2022. These are, respectively, the filing deadline for Florida statewide office and the statewide primary election next year.
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John Solomon / Just The News:
FBI suffers another black eye, admits it hid payments to informant in white supremacist case — The revelations come at a sensitive time for the FBI and Director Christopher Wray, who has insisted widespread problems revealed about the bureau's conduct in the now-discredited Russia collusion case …
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Instapundit
Politico:
Dems dig in on debt as painful September looms — Republicans raised the debt ceiling with minimal drama under Donald Trump. Now Democrats are prepared to make them publicly refuse to do the same for Joe Biden. — Senate Republicans are digging in deeper and deeper in their resistance …
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