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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 …
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 — Most Americans have wanted to withdraw from Afghanistan for a while, and most still do. — But not like this. — Public reaction to what's happened there is decidedly negative …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden began to rebut negative story lines about Afghanistan
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Politico, Fox News and The Western Journal
Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Biden to address nation on Afghanistan evacuation Sunday afternoon
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Breitbart, Fox News and The White House
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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Financial Times:
UK to turn to China and Russia in bid to thwart further Afghanistan chaos — Boris Johnson to chair virtual meeting of the G7 this week as tensions mount over US withdrawal — Britain will this week turn to China and Russia to try to stop Afghanistan sliding further into chaos …
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 …
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Financial Times and Wall Street Journal
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 …
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
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 …
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.
Kenneth Roth / The Hill:
How to safely evacuate Afghans at risk before it's too late — Time is running out for tens of thousands of Afghans trying to flee the Taliban after their takeover of the country. — President Joe Biden stated on Friday that military forces stationed at Kabul airport have a “mission to complete” …
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Mary Stanik / MinnPost:
On an encounter with Unvaccinated America at the hospital — News that the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is swamping hospitals nationwide has made me think of some of the difficult days I spent in a hospital as a University of Minnesota medical center spokesperson.
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:
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Bloomberg, The Weather Channel, Slate and Forbes
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 …
New York Times:
Why Are So Many Hesitant to Get the Covid Vaccine in This Arkansas Town? — Dying in the Name of Vaccine Freedom — Video by Alexander Stockton and Lucy King — In the video above, Alexander Stockton, a producer on the Opinion Video team, explores one of the main reasons the number …
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.
NBC News:
Jesse Jackson and wife, Jacqueline, hospitalized with Covid-19 — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and his wife, Jacqueline, were being treated at a Chicago hospital Saturday after being diagnosed with Covid-19, their representatives said in a statement. — The Rainbow Push Coalition …
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Insider and Associated Press
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 Western Journal
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
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Conservative Radio Host Who Mocked Vaccines Dies of COVID-19 — Phil Valentine derided coronavirus vaccines, but he changed his tune when he was hospitalized. — A conservative radio host in Nashville who derided vaccines and spread misinformation about the coronavirus has died of COVID-19.
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