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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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Biden says he did not see a way to withdraw from Afghanistan without ‘chaos ensuing’ — In an exclusive ABC News interview, Biden opens up on his decision to withdraw. — In an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, and the president's first since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban …
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Patrick Tucker / Defense One:
Trump's Pledge to Exit Afghanistan Was a Ruse, His Final SecDef Says — Chris Miller now says talk of a full withdrawal was a “play” to convince a Taliban-led government to keep U.S. counterterrorism forces. — AFGHANISTAN - WHITE HOUSE - PENTAGON - TERRORISM
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 — WASHINGTON (AP) — A significant majority of Americans doubt that the war in Afghanistan was worthwhile, even as the United States is more divided over President Joe Biden's handling of foreign policy and national security …
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Media Is Helping Hawks Win the War Over Biden's Withdrawal — The Taliban's rapid reconquest of Kabul has exposed a pair of American scandals. One implicates Joe Biden. The other incriminates proponents of a prolonged U.S. occupation of Afghanistan — and the many putatively neutral reporters who've abetted their cause.
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Stuart Ramsay / Sky News:
Afghanistan: Desperate women throw babies over razor wire at compound, asking British soldiers to take them — As every day passes, the relief operation gets more and more urgent and desperate, as the British military tries to move thousands of people out of Afghanistan in just days.
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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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Afghanistan + immigration politics = A divided GOP
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Joe Biden bets a war-weary America will reward him for leaving Afghanistan
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Washington Post:
Afghanistan to be ruled under sharia law, Taliban commander says
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AP-NORC:
Most Americans say the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were not worth fighting
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Politico:
Biden scrambles to tamp down panic over Afghanistan
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Reuters:
Afghan protests spread in early challenge to Taliban
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Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Divisions emerge among Republicans over how to handle Afghan refugees
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Damning pic of a weak leader
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Wall Street Journal:
Afghan Women Are Already Fading From Public View as Fear of the Taliban and Uncertainty Prevail
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Washington Post:
Live updates: U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan until all American citizens are evacuated, Biden tells ABC News
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Biden administration moved slowly to help Afghan refugees as it prepared to exit
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Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
While Afghanistan Fell, Military and CIA Focused on Diversity
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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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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.
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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Claire McNear / The Ringer:
“A Smile With Sharp Teeth”: Mike Richards's Rise to ‘Jeopardy!’ Host Sparks Questions About His Past — The ‘Jeopardy!’ host search is finally over. New reporting reveals that concerns about Richards and the show's selection process remain. — One day in the fall of 2013, Mike Richards called Ken Jennings.
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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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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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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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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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Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Biden orders Education Department to take action against governors who ban school mask mandates — President Biden ordered Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Wednesday to take action against governors who have banned universal masking in public schools, taking a tough stand …
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The Biden administration will use a federal civil rights office to deter states from banning universal masking in classrooms.
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Josh Partlow / Washington Post:
Federal judge rejects Trump-era permits for major Alaska oil project — Wednesday's decision is a setback for ConocoPhillips's Willow project, which aims to produce more than 100,000 barrels a day on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska — A federal judge on Wednesday threw out the permits …
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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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Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
A mom of 4 who died of covid days after her husband makes one final wish: ‘Make sure my kids get vaccinated’ — A few weeks ago, Lydia Rodriguez thought her body was strong enough to fight the coronavirus without the vaccine. — But after a week-long church camp, she and other members …
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Oli Coleman / Page Six:
Larry David ‘screamed’ at Alan Dershowitz at grocery store over Trump ties — It seems that Alan Dershowitz's ties to the Trump administration have made him persona non grata among the Martha's Vineyard elite — including Larry David. — A Page Six spy spotted the Harvard Law professor …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News mandates employees disclose vaccination status, contradicting rhetoric from top stars — New York (CNN Business)The right-wing channel Fox News, whose top personalities have for months assailed the concept of vaccine passports and argued that asking about vaccine status amounts …
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Manchin and Sinema advising House centrists — Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) are privately advising the nine House centrist lawmakers trying to force Speaker Nancy Pelosi to hold a quick vote on the Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure deal, lawmakers and aides tell Axios.
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Ben Montgomery / Axios:
Florida's biggest school districts vote to defy DeSantis on masks — After record-shattering daily COVID-19 counts, school boards in Florida's Hillsborough and Miami-Dade Counties held emergency meetings Wednesday and voted to again require face coverings on campuses.
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