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ABC News:
Full transcript of ABC News' George Stephanopoulos' interview with President Joe Biden — Stephanopoulos spoke to Biden in an exclusive interview Wednesday. — Read the full transcript of President Joe Biden's exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday.
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Reuters:
Planes, guns, night-vision goggles: The Taliban's new U.S.-made war chest — About a month ago, Afghanistan's ministry of defense posted on social media photographs of seven brand new helicopters arriving in Kabul delivered by the United States. — “They'll continue to see a steady drumbeat …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Something Is Wrong with the President — What's Going On with President Biden? — After making no public appearances for four days — during a major foreign crisis — President Biden read a 20-minute speech off a teleprompter on Monday afternoon and took no questions. He immediately returned to Camp David.
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New York Times:
Afghanistan Live Updates: Protests Spread to Kabul as Taliban Struggle to Govern — The day after protests in two cities were met with violence, rallies broke out in Kabul and at least one other city. A troubled evacuation from Kabul slowly gathered pace as Afghans and others arrived in Europe, the Persian Gulf and elsewhere.
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Ben Riley-Smith / Telegraph:
Parliament holds Joe Biden in contempt over Afghanistan — MPs and peers unite to condemn ‘dishonour’ of US president's withdrawal and his criticism of Afghan troops left behind to face Taliban — Joe Biden's handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal was condemned as “catastrophic” and …
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The Christianists Versus Christianity — Plus: What Joe gets wrong — Say, it ain't so, Joe. — The president had a chance to extend and revise his remarks from earlier this week, but this is what we got: … It's. Not. Good. And I say this as someone who supported, touted, and embraced Biden's candidacy.
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Associated Press:
Afghanistan war unpopular amid chaotic pullout: AP-NORC poll
Afghanistan war unpopular amid chaotic pullout: AP-NORC poll
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AP-NORC:
Most Americans say the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were not worth fighting
Most Americans say the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were not worth fighting
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Tori Richards / Washington Examiner:
EXCLUSIVE: DOD knew as early as 2005 that Afghan military was weak, former general says
EXCLUSIVE: DOD knew as early as 2005 that Afghan military was weak, former general says
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Yahoo News and RedState
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Joe Biden bets a war-weary America will reward him for leaving Afghanistan
Joe Biden bets a war-weary America will reward him for leaving Afghanistan
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Patrick Tucker / Defense One:
Trump's Pledge to Exit Afghanistan Was a Ruse, His Final SecDef Says
Trump's Pledge to Exit Afghanistan Was a Ruse, His Final SecDef Says
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New York Times:
Series of U.S. Actions Left Afghan Allies Frantic, Stranded and Eager to Get Out
Series of U.S. Actions Left Afghan Allies Frantic, Stranded and Eager to Get Out
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Abdi Latif Dahir / New York Times:
Covid Live Updates: W.H.O. Official Blasts Plans For Booster Shots
Covid Live Updates: W.H.O. Official Blasts Plans For Booster Shots
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Digby's Hullabaloo, eVille Times, Political Wire, Wall Street Journal and WPLG-TV
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Biden: I would have pulled out regardless of Trump's “deal”
Biden: I would have pulled out regardless of Trump's “deal”
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Afghanistan + immigration politics = A divided GOP
POLITICO Playbook: Afghanistan + immigration politics = A divided GOP
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Washington Post, The Atlantic and TK News
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Amid Afghanistan chaos, Biden asks for ‘legal actions’ against governors who ban mask mandates
Amid Afghanistan chaos, Biden asks for ‘legal actions’ against governors who ban mask mandates
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The Western Journal, Talking Points Memo, NBC News and New York Magazine
John McCormack / National Review:
Why Did the United States Abandon Bagram Airfield?
Why Did the United States Abandon Bagram Airfield?
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HotAir, pjmedia.com, Washington Examiner and The Atlantic
Politico:
Capitol Hill bomb suspect surrenders to police — A man who claimed to have explosives in his truck surrendered on Capitol Hill after a five-hour standoff Thursday afternoon. — The suspect, who was identified as Floyd Roy Roseberry of North Carolina, was “taken into custody without incident” …
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Associated Press:
Police probing report of explosive in truck near Capitol
Police probing report of explosive in truck near Capitol
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U.S. Senator Roger Wicker / wicker.senate.gov:
Wicker Office Statement on COVID-19 Diagnosis — WASHINGTON - The Office of Senator Roger F. Wicker Communications Director Phillip Waller today issued a statement after Senator Roger F. Wicker tested positive for COVID-19: — “Senator Wicker tested positive this morning for the COVID-19 virus …
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Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
An Alabama doctor watched patients reject the coronavirus vaccine. Now he's refusing to treat them. — In Alabama, where the nation's lowest vaccination rate has helped push the state closer to a record number of hospitalizations, a physician has sent a clear message to his patients …
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Devyani Chhetri / Greenville News:
Greenville County GOP leader Pressley Stutts dies from COVID-19 — Greenville County Republican Party leader Pressley Stutts died Thursday morning after battling COVID-19 for nearly a month. — Stutts death was confirmed by Dan Harvell, who represents the Anderson County Republican Party …
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Raw Story
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Herd Immunity Herp Derp — The pandemic's wrongest theory. — A lot of people, including many experts, made blunders when assessing the best ways to combat the novel coronavirus that emerged from Wuhan in late 2019. For a while people were sanitizing their grocery bags. Mask guidance was all over the map.
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Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Parents pull kids from schools as district bucks CDC guidance and board member spreads misinformation — County board meeting erupts during school mask debate — (CNN)It's the third week of school in Cobb County, Georgia, and many parents are livid with what they perceive …
Stuart Taylor Jr / RealClearInvestigations:
Guided by Faith, Divinity Student Fought His ‘Antiracist’ Princeton Seminary — and Won — Timothy Keiderling's decision to enroll in the Princeton Theological Seminary reflected his commitment “to give my life to work for justice and to live out the values of the Kingdom of God.”
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Rachel Metz / CNN:
Facebook wants you to hold your next meeting in VR — (CNN Business)For those who don't think Zoom meetings are a good enough substitute for the real thing, Facebook has another idea: a virtual reality app that lets you and your coworkers feel like you're sitting around a table in a conference room.
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Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
The Week the Left Stopped Caring About Human Rights — Back in April, The Nation magazine told readers that the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan would be “a welcome and long-overdue action.” The essay, by a scholar named Phyllis Bennis, sounded upbeat, even salubrious.
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The Federalist, New York Times and Washington Post
Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Trump is not ruining democracy, we are. And it's been anguishing to confront — I was worried long before Trump and the Capitol riot, as political jousting turned zealous and well-off friends called America a disastrous mess. — I've written about a lot of unpleasant, even frightening, subjects.
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
No, Republican Governors Are Not ‘Banning Masks in Classrooms’ — n a piece titled “The Biden administration will use a federal civil rights office to deter states from banning masks in classrooms,” the New York Times reports that:
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
‘This is warfare:’ Trump allies Flynn, Bannon pushed conspiracies at ritzy party backed by Chinese exile — Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Lindell and Mike Flynn pushed pro-Trump conspiracy theories at an event advertised as a celebration of an anti-China movement.
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Raw Story
Dan Goldberg / Politico:
GOP governors embrace Covid cocktails over masks as cases surge — Republican governors in some of the states hardest hit by the pandemic are pushing expensive Covid cocktails over cheap masks. — The governors in Florida, Missouri and Texas are promising millions of dollars in antibody treatments …
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HotAir, al.com, Politico and New York Times
Dara Bitler / FOX31 Denver:
During campaign, Lauren Boebert didn't disclose husband's income from energy firm — DENVER (AP) — Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert's husband made $478,000 last year working as a consultant for an energy firm, information that was not disclosed during Boebert's congressional campaign and only reported …
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Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Facebook shared new data about what's popular on its platform. The answers are deeply weird. — Report shows a Green Bay Packers alumni page and an online CBD store, not right-wing pundits, are among the most viewed links in people's feeds, as Facebook pushes back against independent studies.
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