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Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
Confidential State Department Cable in July Warned of Afghanistan's Collapse — About two dozen State Department officials in Kabul sent an internal memo to Secretary of State Antony Blinken — WASHINGTON — About two dozen State Department officials serving at the embassy in Kabul sent …
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New York Times:
How News Organizations Got Afghan Colleagues Out of Kabul — The evacuation of those who worked for outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post came after a global rescue effort stretching from the Pentagon to Qatar. — For hours, they waited on the tarmac in the relentless heat …
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Wall Street Journal and The Intercept, more at Mediagazer »
Patrick Reilly / New York Post:
Oklahoma mom of 11 rescues members of Afghan all-girls robotics team — An Oklahoma mother of 11 flew to Afghanistan earlier this month to rescue 10 members of the country's all-girls robotics team, and hoping to save more as the Taliban takes power in Kabul.
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NBC News, The Hill and The Intellectualist
Michael Crowley / New York Times:
Trump's Deal With the Taliban Draws Fire From His Former Allies — The former president and his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, are attacking President Biden over Afghanistan even as their own policy faces harsh criticism. — WASHINGTON — Days before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 …
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Metro.co.uk, Washington Examiner, coldfury.com and Daily Kos
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The Best and Brightest never recovered from Vietnam. Will Biden's team fare better? — The Afghanistan disaster has rocked the Biden administration's foreign policy team, which may need months to regain its sense of balance and momentum. — Senior officials don't have time or emotional bandwidth …
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Sputnik News, Metro.co.uk, WV MetroNews, National Review and Responsible Statecraft
Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
Hunted by the Taliban, US-Allied Afghan Forces Are in Hiding
Hunted by the Taliban, US-Allied Afghan Forces Are in Hiding
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The American Conservative, The Hill, The Daily Caller and Washington Post
James Jay Carafano / New York Post:
Call Afghanistan what it is: The worst hostage crisis in American history
Call Afghanistan what it is: The worst hostage crisis in American history
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CBS News and The Daily Signal
New York Times:
Live Updates: Biden to Address Afghan Crisis as Desperation Builds at Kabul Airport
Live Updates: Biden to Address Afghan Crisis as Desperation Builds at Kabul Airport
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Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, more at Mediagazer »
Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
A 17-year-old Afghan soccer player died falling from a U.S. evacuation plane.
A 17-year-old Afghan soccer player died falling from a U.S. evacuation plane.
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The Daily Caller
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Elder's ex-fiancee said he brandished a gun at her — PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Alexandra Datig, the former fiancee and longtime radio producer for California GOP gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder, says she broke off an 18-month engagement with the conservative talk show host in 2015 …
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CNN:
‘Women exaggerate the problem of sexism’: Top California recall candidate Larry Elder has a long history of making disparaging remarks about women — (CNN)"Glass ceiling? Ha! What glass ceiling? Women, women exaggerate the problem of sexism," radio host Larry Elder said in a 1996 ad for his radio show.
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Politico and Sacramento Bee
Joe Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
California Rigging the Governor Election Against Larry Elder and Those Who Voted for Recall
Dave Lieber / Dallas Morning News:
If North Texas runs out of ICU hospital beds, doctors can consider a patient's vaccination status — This would be a big change in health care, but doctors have yet to announce it. So The Watchdog does it for them. — North Texas doctors have quietly developed a plan that seeks to prepare …
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Forbes, New York Times, HotAir, Patterico's Pontifications, Ace of Spades HQ and Raw Story
BBC:
Afghanistan: Taliban carrying out door-to door manhunt, report says — The Taliban have stepped up their search for people who worked for Nato forces or the previous Afghan government, a UN document has warned. — It said the militants have been going door-to-door to find targets and threatening their family members.
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Agence France-Presse
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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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New York Times, HuffPost, Fox News, The Daily Caller, NOQ Report, Insider, The Gateway Pundit, USA Today, Mediaite, Politico, CNBC, CBS News and Washington Examiner
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king.senate.gov:
Senator King Announces Positive Test for Coronavirus
Senator King Announces Positive Test for Coronavirus
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New York Times, Breitbart, UPI and Forbes
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Three senators announce positive COVID-19 tests in single day
Three senators announce positive COVID-19 tests in single day
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Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Boston.com
German Election / DW.COM:
Relative of DW journalist killed by the Taliban — Journalists and their families are in grave danger in Afghanistan. The Taliban have no compunction about carrying out targeted killings as the case of a DW journalist shows. — Taliban fighters hunting a DW journalist have shot dead …
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Politico, The Guardian, Sputnik News, Financial Times, Breitbart, Bloomberg, The Hill and Committee to Protect …, more at Mediagazer »
James Barragán / The Texas Tribune:
After a nearly six-week exodus over GOP voting bill, enough Democrats return to Texas House to resume work — Democrat Reps. Garnet Coleman, Armando Walle and Ana Hernandez were the latest to rejoin the House on Thursday, narrowly clinching a quorum. — Copy link
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Mac Stipanovich / Tampa Bay Times:
Ron DeSantis has ‘made a monumental mess of masking in public schools’ | Column — Several school districts are doing the right thing despite the governor's threats, writes columnist Mac Stipanovich. — Ron DeSantis is a governor uninterested in actually governing …
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Raw Story
Daily Mail:
Fox News' Greg Gutfeld is crowned new king of late night television after he scores 220K MORE viewers than Colbert's Late Show on CBS — Comedian Greg Gutfeld's show pulled in the most viewers during Tuesday's late night time slot with about 2.12 million — Gutfeld! debuted in April …
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Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap:
Fox News' ‘Gutfeld!’ Finally Overtook Colbert's ‘Late Show’ in Viewers Tuesday
Fox News' ‘Gutfeld!’ Finally Overtook Colbert's ‘Late Show’ in Viewers Tuesday
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RedState
Bob Christie / Associated Press:
Appeals court orders Arizona Senate audit records released — PHOENIX (AP) — An appeals court on Thursday rejected an effort by the Arizona Senate to keep secret records of its ongoing review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County that are in the possession of the contractors conducting the recount.
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Arizona Mirror, Arizona Republic and The Hill
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
South Carolina county Republican Party chair dies of COVID-19 after railing against mask requirements — Greenville County Republican Party leader Pressley Stutts died Thursday morning after succumbing to COVID-19, The Greenville News reported. — Stutts spent nearly a month …
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WEB OF EVIL
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Devyani Chhetri / Greenville News:
Greenville County GOP leader Pressley Stutts dies from COVID-19
Greenville County GOP leader Pressley Stutts dies from COVID-19
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HuffPost, The US Sun, Crooks and Liars, Bipartisan Report and WEB OF EVIL
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
OnlyFans to Block Sexually Explicit Videos Starting in October — OnlyFans is getting out of the pornography business. — The company will prohibit users from posting any sexually explicit conduct, starting in October. Creators will still be allowed to post nude photos and videos …
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Axios, The Daily Beast, National File, The Verge, CatholicVote org, Slate, Gizmodo, Sputnik News, Mashable, Forbes, The A.V. Club, TechCrunch, KRON4 and Hollywood Reporter, more at Mediagazer »
Alexei Navalny / The Guardian:
Only action against corruption can solve the world's biggest problems — In a message from his prison cell, the jailed Russian opposition activist calls for the west to take sanctions against oligarchs — xactly one year ago, I did not die from poisoning by a chemical weapon …
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Radio Free Europe/Radio … and Amnesty International
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Almost all eligible Georgians are registered to vote, data shows — Federal election report: 95% of voting-age Georgians registered — Georgia now has one of the highest voter registration rates in the nation, with 95% of citizens over 18 years old signed up to vote, according to federal election data released this week.
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@richlowry, Breitbart, The Intellectualist, RedState and Twitchy
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Unvaccinated terror: Proud Boys push the anti-vaccination movement into a violent threat — The violent, fascist energy of January 6 didn't just disappear — After the January 6 insurrection at the U.S Capitol, domestic terrorism experts were worried about the potential for more violence.
Amnesty International USA:
Taliban responsible for brutal massacre of Hazara men - new investigation — Taliban fighters massacred nine ethnic Hazara men after taking control of Afghanistan's Ghazni province last month, Amnesty International said today. — On-the-ground researchers spoke to eyewitnesses …