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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
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, The Western Journal, Breitbart and National Review
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Biden shouldn't cave to the bigots on evacuating our Afghan allies — Lots of explanations have been floated for why the Biden administration didn't get more Afghan allies and refugees out before U.S. troops withdrew, as it had been urged to do. — Maybe the problem was disorganization.
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CNN:
US holding direct and daily talks with Taliban in effort to ease Biden's Afghanistan crisis — Washington (CNN)While the US State Department continues to engage in high-level diplomatic talks with the Taliban in the neutral setting of Doha, Qatar, as it has for the past year …
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Townhall, Euractiv, New York Post, Bloomberg and TheBlaze
Washington Post:
Biden administration faces big choices as economic calamity hangs over Afghanistan — Top Afghan officials plead for assistance as the White House torn between isolating Taliban and preventing economic collapse. — Afghanistan's economy faces calamity in the aftermath of the Taliban capture of Kabul …
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Becker News, BBC and Commentary Magazine
Elliot Ackerman / Washington Post:
Afghans were willing to fight. But we abandoned them on the battlefield.
Afghans were willing to fight. But we abandoned them on the battlefield.
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Signal, Atlantic Council, Mother Jones and Reason
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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The Daily Signal and CBS News
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
Biden Administration Continues To Tell Fleeing Americans To Pay Their Way Out Of Afghanistan, Hours After Telling The Press Otherwise
Biden Administration Continues To Tell Fleeing Americans To Pay Their Way Out Of Afghanistan, Hours After Telling The Press Otherwise
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Washington Examiner, Breitbart and New York Post
ABC News:
Full transcript of ABC News' George Stephanopoulos' interview with President Joe Biden
Full transcript of ABC News' George Stephanopoulos' interview with President Joe Biden
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Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
A 17-Year-Old Afghan Soccer Player Died Falling From a US Evacuation Plane
A 17-Year-Old Afghan Soccer Player Died Falling From a US Evacuation Plane
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New York Times:
Sluggish Visa Process Strands Thousands of Afghans Who Worked for U.S.
Sluggish Visa Process Strands Thousands of Afghans Who Worked for U.S.
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CNN
Los Angeles Times:
Protests spread in Afghanistan, and the Taliban boasts of beating ‘arrogant’ U.S.
Protests spread in Afghanistan, and the Taliban boasts of beating ‘arrogant’ U.S.
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Task & Purpose, Fox News and Insider
Ben Riley-Smith / Telegraph:
Parliament holds Joe Biden in contempt over Afghanistan
Parliament holds Joe Biden in contempt over Afghanistan
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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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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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New York Times, Forbes, HotAir, Ace of Spades HQ, Raw Story and Patterico's Pontifications
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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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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Axios, The Daily Caller, The US Sun, The Captain's Journal and The Hill
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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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Wall Street Journal, HotAir and HuffPost
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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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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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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The US Sun, Bipartisan Report, Crooks and Liars and WEB OF EVIL
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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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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The Hill, Arizona Republic and Arizona Mirror
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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CNN:
Police identify suspect who surrendered after claiming to have a bomb near US Capitol — (CNN)A suspect who claimed to have an explosive device in a truck near the US Capitol has surrendered to authorities and is in custody, US Capitol Police said Thursday. — Police have identified the suspect as 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry.
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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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Dave Levinthal / Insider:
Republican Rep. Diana Harshbarger failed to properly disclose more than 700 stock trades worth as much as $10.9 million in violation of federal transparency law — Harshbarger disclosed hundreds of stock trades weeks or months after a federal deadline. — The tardy trades could invite an ethics investigation and fine.
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The Intellectualist and Political Wire
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.
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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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Are You Ready for Sentient Disney Robots? — Some of the animatronics at Disney's parks have been doing their herky-jerky thing since the Nixon administration. The company knows that nostalgia won't cut it with today's children. — GLENDALE, Calif. — I was en route to meet Groot.
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 …