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12:25 AM ET, August 17, 2021

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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.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden gave the best possible defense of his Afghanistan withdrawal  —  President Biden's case for the fruitlessness of a continued military mission in Afghanistan got a boost as the Afghan army melted away, and its leaders fled practically overnight.  During remarks from the White House on Monday …
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.
Discussion: inews.co.uk, Raw Story and Metro.co.uk
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.
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.
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.
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Biden's Right That It's Time for Us to Leave Afghanistan  —  ‘THE BUCK STOPS HERE’ … This has not been a game of chess but Jenga, with players removing blocks from the stack hoping they wouldn't be the one to do the inevitable and bring everything clattering down.
Joe Ferullo / The Hill:
Beltway reporting of Afghanistan withdrawal a disservice to Americans  —  As Taliban forces pushed through Afghanistan this past week, most news outlets covered the swiftly shifting story by falling back to their usual position: reporting from inside the Beltway.
Discussion: All Arab News, The Daily Caller and MSN
Politico:
Biden was barreling toward perilous political waters. Then Afghanistan happened.
Discussion: RedState and Bloomberg
Washington Post:   After Taliban triumph, Biden faces even greater test in preventing extremist resurgence in Afghanistan
Washington Post:
Afghans who helped the U.S. and its allies left in limbo as evacuation turns chaotic
Discussion: National Review
Wall Street Journal:
Biden to Afghanistan: Drop Dead
Jake Dima / Washington Examiner:
Trump follows Biden speech by blasting ‘grossly incompetent’ Afghanistan withdrawal
Discussion: Breitbart and coldfury.com
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Marjorie Taylor Greene: Americans deserve assault weapons like the Taliban
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Daria Litvinova / Associated Press:
Uzbekistan says it downed Afghan military plane crossing in
Discussion: Breitbart and KVEO-TV
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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Washington Post:
Biden administration to announce most Americans will need coronavirus booster shots  —  Administration officials believe people should get additional shots eight months after being fully vaccinated  —  The Biden administration is planning to announce that most Americans who have received …
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.”
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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.
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.
Discussion: Insider
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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
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.
Discussion: CNN
 
 
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Leon Panetta compares fall of Afghanistan to Bay of Pigs
Discussion: New York Post
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Chris Cuomo returns from vacation with ‘note’ about advising brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to resign
New York Times:
Delta Surge Drives Home Painful Truth: Covid Isn't Going Away
Discussion: Mother Jones
Joshua Nelson / Fox News:
Lindsey Graham: Trump would not have withdrawn from Afghanistan if chaos was going to be the result
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
You Can Help Afghan Refugees Get Resettled in the DC Area
Discussion: Al Jazeera, DCist and HotAir
Politico:
​​Trump is curiously quiet on mask mandates
Discussion: HuffPost, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
The Nevada Independent:
Lt. Gov. Kate Marshall to resign, accept White House post
Discussion: The Hill
Ricardo Lopez / Minnesota Reformer:
MNGOP Chair Jennifer Carnahan resigns from board of Big Brothers Big Sisters Twin Cities
Discussion: Twin Cities
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox:
Why no one really knows how bad Facebook's vaccine misinformation problem is
Discussion: Florida Politics and GeekWire
Jewish Journal:
A New Israel-Hating Curriculum is Coming to California School Districts
Melissa Nann Burke / Detroit News:
Ex-Rep. Paul Mitchell dies. He quit GOP over its refusal to accept Trump's defeat
 

 
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