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8:05 AM ET, September 12, 2021

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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Yes, the Jan. 6 insurrectionists were terrorists.  George W. Bush just indicted them.  —  Few Americans expected wisdom from former president George W. Bush on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.  Even fewer expected wisdom on the current state of our politics.  That is nevertheless what we got from his remarks in Shanksville, Pa., today.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
George W. Bush calls on Americans to confront domestic violent extremists on 9/11 anniversary  —  (CNN)Former President George W. Bush called on Americans Saturday to confront domestic violent extremists, comparing them to violent extremists abroad and warning that they are “children of the same foul spirit.”
Dean Obeidallah / MSNBC:   After 9/11 Trump weaponized anti-Muslim hate — yet praises Jan. 6 insurrectionists
Colin Campbell / Yahoo News:   ‘The nation I know’: George W. Bush's powerful address commemorating the 20th anniversary of 9/11
United States Capitol Police:
USCP's January 6 Internal Investigations  —  After January 6, the United States Capitol Police promised to provide an update on its internal investigations related to the attack.  —  This week, the USCP provided the Department of Justice the administrative cases as part of the ongoing discovery production …
Politico:
Dems hurtle toward a new fiscal cliff  —  Congress is approaching hard deadlines on the debt ceiling and funding the government, at the same time Democrats are focused on passing spending bills.  —  The need to raise the nation's debt limit before October is suddenly looming over a host …
Discussion: Insider
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats see $3.5T spending goal is slipping away  —  There's a growing realization among Democrats that their plans for a $3.5 trillion spending package to reshape the nation's social safety net and to tackle climate change will have to be slimmed down because of anxious centrists worried about the 2022 midterms.
Discussion: New York Times and Political Wire
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
US pulls missile defenses in Saudi Arabia amid Yemen attacks  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. has removed its most advanced missile defense system and Patriot batteries from Saudi Arabia in recent weeks, even as the kingdom faced continued air attacks from Yemen's Houthi rebels …
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KIRO 7 News Seattle:
NY hospital to pause baby deliveries after staffers quit over vaccine mandate  —  LOWVILLE, N.Y. — An upstate New York hospital said it will pause the delivery of babies in two weeks because of a spate of resignations by maternity unit workers who are objecting to COVID-19 vaccination mandates.
Discussion: PennLive, New York Post, TheBlaze and WWNY
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP's halting, uneven journey toward becoming the anti-vaccine mandate party  —  Or in this case, toward opposing something that isn't a vaccine mandate at all.  —  There are a couple of perplexing things about the political opposition to the Biden administration's decision …
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
In Shanksville, Biden says the future of democracy is on the line.  —  Shortly after former President George W. Bush spoke at the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pa., on Saturday, President Biden arrived to observe a wreath-laying ceremony at the place where, 20 years ago …
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NBC News:
Biden, former presidents honor heroes, lives lost as nation marks 20th anniversary of 9/11
Discussion: Mother Jones
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Remembering 9/11/01: Twenty years later, solemn ceremonies are separated by politics
Hadley Hitson / USA Today:
Alabama man dies of cardiac event after 43 hospitals with full ICUs turned him away  —  The family of a man who died of heart issues in Mississippi is asking people to get vaccinated for COVID-19 after 43 hospitals across three states were unable to accept him because of full cardiac ICUs.
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Biden's vaccine push wins cautious business support as political opponents fume  —  Even in deep red Texas, some employers embrace the president's vaccine strategy.  —  Bob Harvey's phone did not ring.  —  In Washington, a political furor had erupted over President Biden's new coronavirus vaccine …
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
The Taliban flag flies at the Afghan presidential palace on 9/11  —  Prime Minister Mohammad Hasan Akhund raised the Taliban flag at 11:00 a.m. local time at the Afghanistan presidential palace today.  Ahmadullahh Muttaqi, multimedia chief of the group's cultural commission said a brief ceremony marked …
Discussion: Axios and Associated Press
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Where the Meaning of Flight 93 Can Never End The national memorial was built to allow multiple interpretations.  —  Paul Murdoch did not set out to heal the wound in the Earth, but to preserve it as a scar.  The architect of the Flight 93 National Memorial has spent most of the last two decades refining …
Garrett M. Graff / New York Magazine:
Escape From New York The great maritime rescue of lower Manhattan on 9/11.  —  On that bright-blue morning 20 years ago, Coast Guard lieutenant Michael Day was at his office on Staten Island, looking out over lower Manhattan.  Day was a relatively junior officer whose job entailed safety …
TIME:
The U.S. Needs an Operation Warp Speed for Rapid COVID-19 Testing  —  Dr. Michael Mina, MD, PhD, is assistant professor of epidemiology and immunology/infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics; and associate medical director …
Yelena Dzhanova / Insider:
Doctor says ‘death is imminent’ for a woman on a hospital bed in Michigan who refused the COVID-19 vaccine ‘adamantly’  — Dr. Nicole Linder from Michigan said she watched a patient's COVID-19 symptoms worsen for weeks.  — Her patient, Kathy, refused to get vaccinated, and now it's too late, Linder said.
NBC News:
‘Overall crime decreased in 2020’ in the United States, report finds  —  WASHINGTON — After crime rates in the United States surged in the second half of the 20th century, moderate Democrats persuaded the party to toughen up its platform in the 1990s to channel widespread voter concerns spreading from big cities to the suburbs.
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Republicans seize on Biden's novel use of a law on workplace safety to attack his vaccine mandates.  —  President Biden's far-reaching assertion of presidential authority to require vaccines for 80 million American workers relies on a first-of-its-kind application of a 51-year-old law that grants …
Marcelo Rochabrun / Reuters:
Abimael Guzman, founder of Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, dies at 86  —  Abimael Guzman, leader of the Shining Path rebels who nearly toppled the Peruvian state in a bloody Maoist revolution, died on Saturday while in prison and following several weeks of poor health, the government said.
Discussion: New York Post
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Stephen Kinzer / New York Times:
Abimael Guzmán, Leader of Guerrilla Group That Terrorized Peru, Dies at 86
Discussion: The Guardian
 
 
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Leila Fadel / NPR:
For Many American Muslims, The Legacy Of 9/11 Lies In The Battle For Civil Rights
New York Post:
Trump makes surprise visit to New York police and firefighters on 9/11
Discussion: NBC New York, HotAir and Breitbart
Danny Westneat / The Seattle Times:
'Sophie's choice, over and over': Death panels are the new phase of the pandemic
Chris Evans / Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal:
Jayapal, Omar, Tlaib, and Chu Introduce September 11 Congressional Resolution
Discussion: The Daily Caller
David Reaboi / Late Republic Nonsense:
9/11/2001 +20  —  The expansion of government power used to deal with the very real threat …
Mark Fischer / New York Post:
Transgender fighter Alana McLaughlin wins MMA debut
Robert Snell / Detroit News:
FBI fires Whitmer kidnap case agent amid wife beating allegations
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Wall Street Journal:
Afghan Pilots Who Sought Safety in Uzbekistan Poised for U.S. Transfer Under New Agreement
Discussion: Al Jazeera
 Earlier Items: 
Ruth Graham / New York Times:
Vaccine Resisters Seek Religious Exemptions. But What Counts as Religious?
Mar / New York Times:
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
20 years, $6 trillion, 900,000 lives
Discussion: Jezebel
Isabella Murray / MLive.com:
‘COVID kills moms’: 8 pregnant women dead in Mississippi
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Tom Fish / Newsweek:
Texas Man Killed Prominent Lawyer Because She Voted for Joe Biden: Police
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Top National Security Posts Sit Empty, Mired in Senate ‘Purgatory’
 

 
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