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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden officials: Trump left bare cupboard on Afghanistan — Senior national security officials presiding over a historic foreign policy collapse are privately expressing deep frustrations about the thin Afghanistan withdrawal plans left behind by Donald Trump.
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Pelosi loses patience with centrists on infrastructure deal — With Heather Caygle and Sarah Ferris. — ‘AMATEUR HOUR’ — As the world watches the fallout from Afghanistan, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her leadership team are busy planning for the House's return next week.
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Associated Press:
Taliban announce ‘amnesty,’ urge women to join government — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban declared an “amnesty” across Afghanistan and urged women to join their government Tuesday, seeking to convince a wary population that they have changed a day after deadly chaos gripped …
The White House:
Remarks by President Biden on Afghanistan — THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. I want to speak today to the unfolding situation in Afghanistan: the developments that have taken place in the last week and the steps we're taking to address the rapidly evolving events.
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Erin Doherty / Axios:
Taliban accumulate massive amounts of U.S.-supplied firepower — The Taliban accumulated an enormous amount of U.S.-supplied guns, ammunition, helicopters, combat aircraft and more after Afghan security forces collapsed this weekend, AP reports. — Why it matters: The U.S. spent billions …
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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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CNN:
Biden administration embroiled in internal blame-shifting amid Afghanistan chaos — Washington (CNN)Factions within the Biden administration are embroiled in a blame game over why the US government didn't act sooner to withdraw American citizens and Afghans who helped the US over two decades of war …
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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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Wall Street Journal:
Biden to Afghanistan: Drop Dead
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Washington Post:
Last images from the Afghan war capture a 20-year failure to acknowledge how badly the conflict was going
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emptywheel and Reuters
Bush Center:
Statement by President and Mrs. Bush on Afghanistan
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden's big bet on Afghanistan
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Get Afghan Refugees Out. Then Let Them In. — There are no good ways to lose a war …
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Tara Copp / Defense One:
Inside Reach 871, A US C-17 Packed With 640 Afghans Trying to Escape the Taliban
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Washington Post:
Eerie tension settles over Kabul as Taliban patrols the streets and U.S. reasserts control at the airport following chaotic scenes
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Samuel Benson / Deseret News:
They aided the U.S. military in Afghanistan for years. Have we left them to die?
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Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Politico, New York Times and Mashable
Dan Bilefsky / New York Times:
A Taliban official's TV interview with a female presenter is part of a broader campaign.
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Slate
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
The sausage making ain't gonna be pretty the next few months
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden gave the best possible defense of his Afghanistan withdrawal
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Washington Post:
72 hours at Camp David: Inside Biden's lagging response to the fall of Afghanistan
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Associated Press:
Taliban vow to honor women's rights but within Islamic law
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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
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Wall Street Journal:
Taliban Conquest of Afghanistan Scrambles the Diplomatic Map
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Reuters:
Afghan turmoil ‘shames’ the West, says German president
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Joe Ferullo / The Hill:
Beltway reporting of Afghanistan withdrawal a disservice to Americans
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The Atlantic, Esquire and The Western Journal
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden's promise to restore competence to the presidency is undercut by chaos in Afghanistan
Washington Post:
After Taliban triumph, Biden faces even greater test in preventing extremist resurgence in Afghanistan
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Matthew Karnitschnig / Politico:
Disbelief and betrayal: Europe reacts to Biden's Afghanistan ‘miscalculation’
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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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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Instagram Posts Seal Fate Of Trump-Loving Bodybuilder Who Dragged Capitol Cop — The FBI has arrested Logan Barnhart, whom online sleuths dubbed “CatSweat,” with the help of the Sedition Hunters community. — When former President Donald Trump sent a tweet early this year promoting Jan. 6 as a …
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Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Sen. Andre Jacque of De Pere hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19 — MADISON - One of the Legislature's most active lawmakers who has opposed mask and vaccine mandates has received hospital care after testing positive for COVID-19. — Sen. Andre Jacque, a Republican from De Pere …
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Wall Street Journal:
As Delta Surges, Covid-19 Breakthrough Cases Remain Uncommon — WSJ analysis finds higher risk of infection from strain, but research shows that vaccines still protect against most serious illness — The Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus appears to be breaking through the protection vaccines provide …
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Francis Fukuyama / American Purpose:
No Decent Interval — With the Taliban now moving into Kabul, the collapse of the U.S.-supported government there has been unbelievably swift. I have any number of Afghan former students and graduates of our programs at Stanford who have been desperately seeking to get out.
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
He Taught a Ta-Nehisi Coates Essay. Then He Was Fired. — The first time Matt Hawn suspected that he might run into trouble for what he was teaching was last August. His contemporary-issues class was discussing the events in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where protesters had taken to the streets …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN's Poppy Harlow Will Take Hiatus to Pursue Legal Studies (EXCLUSIVE) … CNN mid-morning anchor Poppy Harlow is going to take a hiatus from working on her program to tend to a legal matter: studying the law at Yale University. — Harlow, who has been with CNN since 2008 …
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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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