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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
A primer on false narratives about Afghanistan — There are many alarmist headlines pronouncing with certitude what has occurred or will occur in Afghanistan. Many are premature — or alternatively, out of date. Others ignore information now available to us that debunks fanciful explanations …
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Mike Pence / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Broke Our Deal With the Taliban — It's a foreign-policy humiliation unlike anything our country has endured since the Iran hostage crisis. — 'The likelihood there's going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country [of Afghanistan] is highly unlikely," …
Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:
Taliban Block Routes to Kabul Airport, Hampering Evacuations From Afghanistan — Residents in eastern city of Jalalabad stage first protest against Taliban rule — Afghans and Westerners stranded in Kabul after Sunday's Taliban takeover started trickling into the city's U.S.-controlled airport …
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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Biden approval drops to lowest of 7-month presidency after Taliban takeover — President Joe Biden's approval rating dropped by 7 percentage points and hit its lowest level so far as the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed over the weekend in an upheaval that sent thousands of civilians …
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David Rohde / New Yorker:
Trying—and Failing—to Save the Family of the Afghan Who Saved Me — Twelve years ago, Tahir Luddin helped us both escape after we were kidnapped by the Taliban. Now I am struggling to get his family out of Kabul. — In the middle of March, I texted my friend Tahir Luddin …
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Reuters:
Biden's vow to airlift Afghan allies meets ticking clock, risky rescue — President Joe Biden's pledge to evacuate thousands more at-risk Afghans who worked for the U.S. government will run into the cold reality of a fast-closing window of time, insecurity all over Afghanistan and major logistical hurdles.
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Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
From prison to power: Taliban leaders go from jail, to negotiating table, to Kabul — Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund returned to Afghanistan after nearly two decades on Tuesday, a reversal of fortune that saw him go from Taliban co-founder to prisoner in Pakistan to negotiator in Qatar to a now-central figure in Kabul.
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New York Times:
The Taliban respond with force to an outpouring of public anger. — Even as the Taliban took their first steps to create a functioning government, they faced the first street protests on Wednesday against their takeover of Afghanistan, with demonstrations in at least two cities.
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Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:
After epochal disaster in Afghanistan, Biden should step down
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The Intercept:
The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices
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Devi Ruia / Data For Progress:
Voters Support Withdrawing Troops from Afghanistan and Providing Afghans With Special Immigrant Visas
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Senate Dem: We're gonna get to the bottom of this disgrace in Afghanistan; UPDATE: Pelosi too?
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Washington Post:
Taliban strikes conciliatory tone, consolidates power as de facto leader returns to country
New York Times:
For Afghan Women, Taliban Stir Fears of Return to a Repressive Past
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New York Times:
Afghanistan Live Updates: Taliban Meet Public Protest With Violence
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden's approval rating drops below 50
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A First Amendment Precedent — The Supreme Court may reconsider a major case concerning freedom of the press.
CNN:
Biden administration faces daunting odds of pulling off massive Afghanistan evacuation in 2 weeks
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Haley Strack / The Federalist:
Obama Freed The Taliban Leader Who Engineered Kabul Takeover
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Nik DeCosta-Klipa / Boston.com:
‘Utter BS’: Seth Moulton rebukes Biden's claim that some Afghans ‘did not want to leave earlier’
Samuel Chamberlain / New York Post:
Trump calls Afghanistan collapse ‘most humiliating’ moment for US
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Jeffrey Morris / Covid Data Science:
Israeli data: How can efficacy vs. severe disease be strong when 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated? — A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines are not effective against Delta, or vaccine efficacy wanes after 4-6 months.
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Phil Helsel / NBC News:
Texas school district makes masks part of dress code to get around Gov. Abbott's order … A small Texas school district has made facial coverings part of its dress code, in a bid to get around Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order banning mask mandates. — The board of the Paris Independent …
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Reuters:
U.S. reports more than 1,000 COVID deaths in single day — The United States reported more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, equating to around 42 fatalities an hour, according to a Reuters tally, as the Delta variant continues to ravage parts of the country with low vaccination rates.
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al.com:
Alabama has net of only 2 ICU beds in state, hospital association says — As Alabama faces a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations due to a low vaccination rate and the more contagious delta variant of the coronavirus, the state has a net of only two ICU beds, the Alabama Hospital Association said Monday.
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Cameron Jenkins / The Hill:
Arizona governor withholding grants to schools with mask mandates
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Klark Byrd / Paris News:
Paris ISD to require masks as part of dress code
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
QAnon 'Queen's' Followers Are Sending Insane Anti-Vaxx Notes to Hospitals
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Office of the Arizona Governor:
Governor Ducey Announces $163 Million To Increase Per Pupil Funding In Schools
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Anita Sircar / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed: As a doctor in a COVID unit, I'm running out of compassion for the unvaccinated. Get the shot
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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tests positive for COVID-19
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Erika Edwards / NBC News:
U.S. announces plan to offer boosters to all Americans starting in late September — Top U.S. health officials announced Wednesday that the country has developed a plan to start offering Covid-19 booster shots to all Americans beginning the third week of September, citing evidence that protection …
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New York Times:
The School Culture Wars: ‘You Have Brought Division to Us’ — From mask mandates to critical race theory and gender identity, educators are besieged. “You are just trying to keep everything from collapsing,” one official said. — July and August are supposed to be the quietest months of the school year.
CDC:
CDC Newsroom — Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is announcing a new center designed to advance the use of forecasting and outbreak analytics in public health decision making. Once established, the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics …
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Julie Barrett / The Federalist:
How To See If Critical Race Theory Is In Your Kids' School—And Fight It — If your school district is anything like mine, they don't call it critical race theory, and they insist people who use that term are crazy, right-wing conspiracy theorists. We're not.
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- Raheem J. Kassam / The National Pulse:
Stunning Poll Reveals Trump Would Win Election Held Today, As Nearly 1 In 10 Democrats ‘Regret’ Their 2020 Vote. — Stunning new poll numbers from Rasmussen Reports suggest nearly 1 in 10 Democrats regret their vote in the 2020 Presidential election, with 12 percent of ‘Moderates’ saying the same …
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Jesús A. Rodríguez / Politico:
What Kamala Harris' Law School Years Reveal About Her Politics — The signs in downtown San Francisco that day, outside of the University of California Hastings College of the Law, might as well have been plucked from today's racial justice protests. “Rise Above Racism,” “Should This Still Be Happening? …
Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed Clashed With NBCUniversal as It Pursued SPAC Deal — Chief Executive Jonah Peretti of BuzzFeed signed off on terms that could put more pressure on the company if its shares don't rise. He is confident investors will be pleased with the results. — As BuzzFeed Inc. was exploring plans …
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