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Tara Copp / Defense One:
Inside Reach 871, A US C-17 Packed With 640 Afghans Trying to Escape the Taliban — The Air Force evacuation flight from Kabul to Qatar came near the record for most people ever flown in the Boeing airlifter. — AFGHANISTAN - WHITE HOUSE - AIR FORCE - CIVILIANS
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Biden must rescue thousands of U.S. citizens trapped in Afghanistan — As the situation on the ground in Afghanistan's capital continues to deteriorate, thousands of U.S. citizens are trapped in and around Kabul with no ability to get to the airport, which is their only way out of the country.
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Daniel Silverberg / The Atlantic:
Biden Was Right — In 2017, I arrived at Kabul's Hamid Karzai Airport as part of a congressional staff delegation. Even though the U.S. embassy stood a mere four miles away, safety concerns necessitated our helicoptering from a recently constructed multimillion-dollar transit facility instead of traveling by road.
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Antonio Planas / NBC News:
Female mayor in Afghanistan says she's waiting for Taliban to ‘come ... and kill me’ — One of Afghanistan's first female mayors said Sunday that she is waiting for the Taliban to come and kill her as the Islamic militants reached the capital, Kabul. — “I'm sitting here waiting for them to come.
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The Bulwark:
'Please Don't Leave Us Behind. We Will Be Great Americans.' — An interview with a U.S.-trained Afghan Air Force pilot, now hiding from the Taliban. — AFGHAN AIR FORCE PILOTS LAND THEIR UH-60 BLACKHAWKS ON A NARROW LANDING STRIP DURING A RESUPPLY MISSION TO AN OUTPOST IN GHAZNI PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN, SUNDAY, MAY 9, 2021.
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden's promise to restore competence to the presidency is undercut by chaos in Afghanistan — Joe Biden presented voters with a core argument why he, more than anyone else, was the best choice to replace the wildly unorthodox Donald Trump: He would bring competence.
Washington Post:
After Taliban triumph, Biden faces even greater test in preventing extremist resurgence in Afghanistan — Even before the Taliban's stunning takeover this week, American military and intelligence officials were racing to devise plans for containing extremist threats emanating from Afghanistan …
Washington Post:
Eerie tension settles over Kabul as Taliban patrols the streets and U.S. reasserts control at the airport following chaotic scenes — Horrifying scenes of desperate Afghans, lunging for the wheels of a U.S. military aircraft as it taxied for takeoff from Kabul airport Monday …
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Samuel Benson / Deseret News:
They aided the U.S. military in Afghanistan for years. Have we left them to die? — Afghan allies of the U.S. speak to the Deseret News and describe the situation in Afghanistan — Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway …
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The Guardian:
Kabul airport: footage appears to show Afghans falling from plane after takeoff — Scenes of desperation and panic, with apparent fatalities after people seen clinging to moving US aircraft — Desperate Afghans clung to the side of a moving US military plane leaving Kabul airport …
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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Billions spent on Afghan army ultimately benefited Taliban
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Brett Bruen / USA Today:
Ex-Obama adviser: Why Biden must fire his national security adviser for Afghanistan failure
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
US reaches deal with Taliban on evacuations: report
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John McCormack / National Review:
What Biden Left Out When He Blamed Afghans for the Taliban's Swift Victory
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Associated Press:
The latest on Afghanistan: Four Afghans dead after fall from US plane wheel well
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Biden says the ‘buck stops with me’ — while pinning blame on Trump and many Afghans
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Dana Loesch / Dana Loesch's Chapter and Verse:
The Blame for Afghanistan — We saw a revolving door of officials yoke an entire generation …
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Washington Post:
The debacle in Afghanistan is the worst kind: Avoidable
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden gave the best possible defense of his Afghanistan withdrawal
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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Afghan security forces' wholesale collapse was years in the making
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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Biden's Right That It's Time for Us to Leave Afghanistan
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Joe Biden is facing a crisis of competence
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
China Touts ‘U.S. Humiliation’ in Afghanistan in Warning to Taiwan
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Marjorie Taylor Greene: Americans deserve assault weapons like the Taliban
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ABC News:
Afghanistan updates: Chaos at Kabul airport, world responds
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Claire Sanford / Rev:
Joe Biden Speech Transcript on Afghanistan & Taliban Takeover
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Wesley Morgan / Washington Post:
He spent his adult life helping U.S. soldiers. Now, he's desperately fleeing Afghanistan.
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New York Times
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
U.S. to Advise Boosters for Most Americans 8 Months After Vaccination — Nursing home residents and health care workers will most likely be the first to get booster shots, as soon as September, followed by other older people who were vaccinated last winter.
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Axios:
Scoop: Investigation finds fired Tennessee vaccine official mailed dog muzzle to self — A Tennessee investigation found evidence that the state's fired vaccine chief, Michelle Fiscus, purchased a dog muzzle that she previously claimed someone had mailed in an attempt to intimidate her.
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Washington Post:
First-ever water shortage declared on the Colorado River, triggering water cuts for some states in the West — BOULDER, Colo. — Low water in the Colorado River's largest reservoir triggered the first-ever federal declaration of a shortage on Monday, a bleak marker of the effects of climate change …
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Henry Fountain / New York Times:
In a First, U.S. Declares Shortage on Colorado River, Forcing Water Cuts
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NBC News:
Texas requests five mortuary trailers in anticipation of Covid deaths — With Covid-19 surging across the state, Texas has requested five mortuary trailers from the federal government in anticipation of an influx of dead bodies, state officials told NBC News.
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The New York Times Company:
Group Statement Sent to President Biden on Behalf of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post — Dear President Biden: — For the past twenty years, brave Afghan colleagues have worked tirelessly to help The New York Times, The Washington Post …
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Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening to Kill Newly Elected U.S. Senator — Federal prosecutors said Eduard Florea of Queens posted menacing threats online against Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Congress before and during the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
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Politico:
Biden was barreling toward perilous political waters. Then Afghanistan happened. — Joe Biden's approval numbers are slipping. The majority of surveys show Americans believe the nation is on the wrong track. Democrats fear the White House has faltered in getting out its message on core agenda items.
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Maeve Sheehey / Politico:
Poll: Support for Afghanistan withdrawal plummets as Taliban seize control
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Bush Center:
Statement by President and Mrs. Bush on Afghanistan — “Laura and I, along with the team at the Bush Center, stand ready as Americans to lend our support and assistance in this time of need. Let us all resolve to be united in saving lives and praying for the people of Afghanistan.”
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