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3:50 PM ET, August 22, 2021

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Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Booed at Alabama Rally After Encouraging Crowd to Get COVID-19 Vaccine  —  Former President Donald Trump was booed by his own supporters during a rally in Cullman, Alabama Saturday night after he encouraged the crowd to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘What traitors do’: Trump slammed for praising Taliban at Alabama rally  —  During his 90-minute speech in Alabama on Saturday night, former president Donald Trump praised the Taliban and talked up his relationship with them at the same time that President Joe Biden is attempting to conduct …
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Trump targets Biden over Afghanistan but gets booed briefly on vaccines at Alabama rally
Katherine Huggins / Mediaite:   Trump Tells Alabama Rally Crowd He Recommends the Covid Vaccine, But Then Pivots Back to Talk About ‘Freedom’ After Some Booing
Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
What We Left Behind in Afghanistan  —  The United States' hasty, ill-planned withdrawal was one last favor for the Taliban.  —  In the fall of 2001, as the United States and its allies swept into Afghanistan, the Taliban collapsed with surprising speed.  Although the Taliban Army …
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
The Afghanistan outcome is ugly. Biden was still right to say: Enough.
Discussion: BizPac Review and Morning Shots
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden began to rebut negative story lines about Afghanistan
Discussion: Politico, Fox News and CNN
Jason Linkins / New Republic:
The War in Afghanistan Was a Scam
Discussion: ABC News
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Biden's job ratings decline amid Covid surge, Afghanistan withdrawal in NBC News poll  —  WASHINGTON — After a spike in U.S. Covid-19 cases and bipartisan criticism over the chaos from America's withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden's overall job-approval rating …
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CBS News:
Biden job approval falls; handling of troop removal is negative but support for withdrawal remains — CBS News poll
Discussion: The Hill and Mediaite
Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Biden to address nation on Afghanistan evacuation Sunday afternoon
Discussion: Breitbart, Fox News and The White House
New York Times:
Hospitals and Insurers Didn't Want You to See These Prices.  Here's Why.  —  The price for an M.R.I. at Mass General is ...  Do you have a medical bill we should investigate?  Share it with us.  —  This year, the federal government ordered hospitals to begin publishing a prized secret …
CNN:
Fact check: Trump administration officials try to rewrite their own Afghanistan history  —  Washington (CNN)There's been no shortage of fact-based criticism aimed at the Biden administration's handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.  —  But some of the criticism …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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Devan Cole / CNN:
GOP congressman places blame on Trump admin for crisis in Afghanistan: ‘They set this up to fail’  —  Brianna Keilar presses official: Why is Biden misleading with his words here?  —  Washington (CNN)Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Sunday placed blame on the Trump administration …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
NBC News:
Afghan staff at U.S. Embassy losing faith in evacuation efforts, diplomatic cable says  —  WASHINGTON — Local staff members at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul are “deeply disheartened” by U.S. evacuation efforts and have expressed a sense of betrayal and distrust in the American government …
Discussion: New York Post, Forbes and Denver Post
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Kenneth Roth / The Hill:
How to safely evacuate Afghans at risk before it's too late
Harry Enten / CNN:
How the political environment is moving toward Republicans  —  (CNN)Republicans gained a seat in the Connecticut state Senate this week.  They won a special election in a district that President Joe Biden won by more than 20 points in 2020.  —  Any individual special election such as this one comes …
U.S. Department of Defense:
Department of Defense Activates Civil Reserve Air Fleet to Assist With Afghanistan Efforts  —  Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has ordered the Commander of U.S. Transportation Command to activate Stage I of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF).  CRAF activation provides the Department …
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Angus Thompson / Sydney Morning Herald:
Rescue dogs shot dead by NSW council due to COVID-19 restrictions  —  Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size  —  Several impounded dogs due to be rescued by a shelter have instead been shot dead by a rural council in NSW under its interpretation of COVID-19 restrictions …
Discussion: TMZ.com and TheBlaze
Financial Times:
Johnson to host G7 talks on Afghanistan with role sought for China and Russia  —  UK prime minister acknowledges China and Russia as crucial to limiting chaos while US hints at extending pullout deadline  —  Boris Johnson, UK prime minister, will on Tuesday host crisis talks on Afghanistan …
New York Times:
As Biden Faces a Political Crisis, His Party Looks On in Alarm  —  Democrats fear that if the pandemic or the situation in Afghanistan continues to worsen, their party may lose the confidence of the moderate swing voters who lifted it to victory in 2020.  —  With President Biden facing …
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Cassady Rosenblum / New York Times:
‘Lying Flat’: Tired Workers Are Opting Out of Careers and Capitalism  —  Ms. Rosenblum is a writer who recently quit her job as a producer at “Here & Now,” a National Public Radio news program, and is living with her parents in West Virginia.  —  In China this April, a 31-year-old former …
Discussion: Althouse and WEB OF EVIL
Tony Blair / Institute for Global Change:
Why We Must Not Abandon the People of Afghanistan - For Their Sakes and Ours … The abandonment of Afghanistan and its people is tragic, dangerous, unnecessary, not in their interests and not in ours.  In the aftermath of the decision to return Afghanistan to the same group from which the carnage …
New York Times:
Live Updates: Tropical Storm Henri Makes Landfall in Rhode Island  —  The storm has cut power to more than 115,000 customers from New Jersey to Maine.  Officials urged tourists to leave beach towns as storm surges threatened eastern Long Island and southern New England.  —  Here's what you need to know:
Wall Street Journal:
More Kids Are Hospitalized With Covid-19, and Doctors Fear It Will Get Worse  —  Delta variant's spread is a concern as schools reopen; ‘This is different than we saw before’  —  Hospitals in the South and Midwest say they are treating more children with Covid-19 than ever and are preparing for worse surges to come.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Was an Inspiration for Me”: Matt Gaetz Tries to Shift the Narrative With a MAGA Romance  —  The Florida Congressman has eloped, in between pushing election lies with Marjorie Taylor Greene and fending off a federal investigation.  —  Coming off a sweep through the Midwest that included stops …
JONATHAN TURLEY:
“No Further Action Will Be Taken”: Officer Who Fatally Shot Ashli Babbitt Cleared of Any Wrongdoing By Capitol Police  —  Yesterday I wrote a column in the Hill about the FBI reportedly finding no evidence a planned insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th.
Discussion: The Hill and The Western Journal
Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:
What's wrong with Arizona's 2020 audit?  A lot, experts say  —  PHOENIX (AP) — A cybersecurity firm plucked from relative obscurity to conduct an unprecedented review of ballots in Arizona's largest country is readying to present its findings to Republican lawmakers.
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
 
 
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Noisy Minority  —  Conservatives' opposition to vaccines and masks is fueled by the conviction …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Why Are So Many Hesitant to Get the Covid Vaccine in This Arkansas Town?
Sam Sokol / Haaretz:
A medical worker prepares to administer a patient's third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit HMO in Jerusalem.Credit: Ammar Awad/Reuters
Discussion: New York Post, The Guardian and 77 WABC
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Stanley Aronowitz, Labor Scholar and Activist, Dies at 88
ABC News:
US special operations forces race to save former Afghan comrades in jeopardy
Discussion: The Irish Times
 Earlier Items: 
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
What Biden doesn't understand  —  GETTYSBURG — On an overcast day, the national park …
Washington Examiner:
Biden's COVID hypocrisy won't protect children
LZ Granderson / Los Angeles Times:
Why Biden betrays Black voters in rewarding Rahm Emanuel
Ryan C. Crocker / New York Times:
America Lost Patience in Afghanistan. The Taliban Swooped In.
NBC News:
Jesse Jackson and wife, Jacqueline, hospitalized with Covid-19
Discussion: Insider
Luke McGee / CNN:
Europe left exposed as Biden walks America away from the world stage
Mary Stanik / MinnPost:
On an encounter with Unvaccinated America at the hospital