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10:40 PM ET, August 14, 2021

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The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on Afghanistan  —  Over the past several days, I have been in close contact with my national security team to give them direction on how to protect our interests and values as we end our military mission in Afghanistan.  —  First, based on the recommendations …
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Axios:
Scoop: Biden braces for brutal loss  —  The Biden administration is preparing for the fall of Kabul and a retreat from any U.S. diplomatic presence in Afghanistan — a stunning reversal of expectations.  — It's looking increasingly likely to high-ranking aides to President Biden that the U.S …
New York Times:
Taliban Sweep in Afghanistan Follows Years of U.S. Miscalculations  —  An Afghan military that did not believe in itself and a U.S. effort that Mr. Biden, and most Americans, no longer believed in brought an ignoble end to America's longest war.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden's top advisers concede …
New York Times:
Afghanistan's commercial hub, Mazar-i-Sharif, falls to the insurgents.  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — The last major city in northern Afghanistan fell to the Taliban on Saturday night, marking the complete loss of the country's north to the Taliban as the insurgents appear on the verge of a full military takeover.
Discussion: Townhall, Insider and The Guardian
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
From hubris to humiliation: America's warrior class contends with the abject failure of its Afghanistan project  —  Twenty years ago, when the twin towers and the Pentagon were still smoldering, there was a sense among America's warrior and diplomatic class that history was starting anew …
Washington Post:
Biden administration scrambled as its orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan unraveled  —  By the middle of the week, as cities across Afghanistan were falling like dominoes to the Taliban and U.S. diplomats appeared increasingly at risk, President Biden's plan for an orderly end to the United States' longest war was quickly falling apart.
Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
How the Afghan Army, Built by the U.S. Over Two Decades, Was Overrun
Discussion: France 24 and Outside the Beltway
Washington Post:   As Taliban widens its grip, Afghans reckon with life under militant rule
Washington Post:
Taliban advances closer to Kabul as U.S. seeks to avoid battles with its troops staging evacuations
Kamran Bokhari / Wall Street Journal:
The Taliban's Afghan Advance Spells Trouble for Pakistan and China
Discussion: New York Post
Reuters:
Quake kills hundreds in Haiti, worsening Caribbean nation's plight  —  At least 304 people died and hundreds were injured after a major earthquake struck southwestern Haiti on Saturday, authorities said, reducing churches, hotels, schools and homes to rubble in the latest tragedy to hit the impoverished Caribbean nation.
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ABC News:
Haiti earthquake latest: At least 227 people dead, more than 1,500 injured
Discussion: BBC, Associated Press and Mother Jones
Luke Kenton / The US Sun:
HAITI HORROR Haiti earthquake - Huge magnitude 7 quake strikes in Caribbean as THOUSANDS feared dead after buildings collapse
Discussion: Cyprus Mail and HotAir
Washington Post:
At least 29 dead in Haiti in wake of 7.2-magnitude earthquake
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Behold Barack Antoinette  —  WASHINGTON — Jay Gatsby gave big, lavish, new-money parties at his sprawling mansion on the water because he wanted to seem cool.  He wanted Daisy to notice him.  —  Barack Obama gave a big, lavish, new-money party at his sprawling mansion on the water because he wanted to seem cool.
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Matt Taibbi / TK News:
The Vanishing Legacy of Barack Obama
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:   Teen accused of assisting GOP strategist with sex trafficking arrested in Florida: report
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Mississippi 8th Grader Dies With COVID Hours After Gov. Reeves Downplays Child Cases  —  An eighth-grade girl died this morning in Raleigh, Miss., mere hours after testing positive for COVID-19.  Multiple sources told the Mississippi Free Press that the student attended classes at the school …
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Nick Judin / Mississippi Free Press:
Gov. Reeves For Vaccinations, But Chides Against ‘Virtue-Signaling’ About Mask Need
Discussion: WJTV and The Hill
Aya Elamroussi / CNN:
‘This is starting to look really ominous in the South,’ expert says, as US is among nations with highest rate of new Covid-19 cases  —  (CNN)The US remains among nations with the highest rate of new Covid-19 cases, driven mostly by a surge in the South, where many states are lagging in getting people vaccinated against the coronavirus.
WNCT-TV:
NC Rep. Keith Kidwell, wife in hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19  —  WASHINGTON, N.C. (WNCT) — NC Rep. Keith Kidwell, who serves District 79 and Beaufort County, announced on Friday that he is in the hospital after his wife was diagnosed with COVID-19.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Wall Street Journal:
New Covid-19 Hospitalizations for 30- to 39-Year-Olds at Record Rate  —  Group largely avoided hospitals earlier in pandemic, but highly contagious Delta variant and lagging vaccination rates have changed health outcomes  —  Hospitalizations of Covid-19 patients in their 30s have hit a new record …
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
‘Outsider’ Buttigieg plays a skillful inside game, positioning himself for the future  —  Over Mexican food one recent evening, Pete Buttigieg told war stories from his presidential run to a small group of senators — including one who would have been an implausible dinner companion 18 months ago.
 
 
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