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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 …
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Reuters:
U.S. ‘unwavering’ in Afghanistan evacuations, Biden says; Taliban beat back crowd at airport — The United States has an “unwavering commitment” to get U.S. citizens and at-risk Afghans to safety out of Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said, as Taliban fighters beat back thousands desperate to flee outside Kabul airport on Sunday.
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Washington Post:
Biden says safe zone around Kabul airport to expand, as Pentagon enlists commercial airlines to aid evacuations — President Biden said Sunday that the U.S. military is “executing a plan” to move stranded American citizens to the Kabul airport in greater numbers, including through an expansion …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Distinguished persons of the week: Let's hear it for the deep state — As disturbing scenes of chaos and misery played out in the streets of Kabul, criticism — some earned and some not, some hyperbolic and some laser-focused — rained down on a wide expanse of people, including President Biden …
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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 …
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Josie Ensor / Telegraph:
Joe Biden's aides ‘too afraid’ to tell him he was wrong on Afghanistan, say White House insiders — The US president is facing the greatest crisis of his tenure — President Joe Biden's aides were “too scared” to question him on key decisions made in the run-up to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan …
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump booed at Alabama rally after telling supporters to get vaccinated … Former President Donald Trump was booed at a rally on Saturday in Alabama after telling supporters they should get vaccinated. — “And you know what? I believe totally in your freedoms. I do.
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Axios:
Biden doesn't plan to fire anyone over Kabul chaos, sources say — Biden isn't inclined to fire any senior national security officials over the chaos in Kabul unless the situation drastically deteriorates.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden began to rebut negative story lines about Afghanistan — President Biden's Friday speech on Afghanistan, and even more so his answers to reporters' questions, ended the week on a decidedly more positive note than it began. While on Monday the focus was on harrowing scenes …
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
The Afghanistan outcome is ugly. Biden was still right to say: Enough.
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Dominic Green / The Spectator World:
Biden must go — (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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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 …
Martin E. Comas / Associated Press:
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz marries girlfriend in California elopement — MIAMI (AP) — U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, eloped to Southern California and married his girlfriend Ginger Luckey on Saturday in a small ceremony on Catalina Island. — The controversial 39-year-old Republican …
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Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Was an Inspiration for Me”: Matt Gaetz Tries to Shift the Narrative With a MAGA Romance
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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
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Afghans' suffering is ‘heartbreaking’ but unavoidable, Biden says
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Jon Craig / Sky News:
Afghanistan: Tony Blair slams President Biden for ‘imbecilic’ military pullout and says crisis risks relegating UK to ‘second division of global powers’ — The former prime minister, who sent British troops into Afghanistan in 2001, said the “abandonment of Afghanistan and its people is tragic, dangerous [and] unnecessary”.
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Brian Kahn / Gizmodo:
Trump's Border Wall Torn Apart by Arizona Monsoon Rains — Record monsoon rains have blown floodgates off their hinges as Trump's border wall breaks down. — Alerts — It turns out ignoring bedrock environmental laws may not have been the best choice for a multibillion-dollar construction project.
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Raw Story
Adam Elmahrek / Los Angeles Times:
State officials open investigation into whether Larry Elder failed to disclose income sources — California regulators have launched an investigation into whether recall election gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder failed to properly disclose his income sources, a spokesman …
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The Hill
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 …
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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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Charles Gaba / ACA Signups:
A month later, let's check in on the GOP's (supposed) COVID vaccination messaging 180º turnaround — Exactly a month ago I posted an in-depth analysis in which I broke out all 3,114 counties, parishes, boroughs & census areas throughout the 50 United States (+DC) into a 3x3 grid as follows:
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
How the U.S. vaccination drive came to rely on an army of consultants — Private contractors cost taxpayers millions while demonstrating few clear results and papering over weaknesses in the country's public health system — When Gavin Newsom outsourced key components of California's vaccine rollout …
CNN:
Tennessee flooding leaves 21 people dead and around 20 others missing — (CNN)The death toll from severe flooding in Humphreys County in Middle Tennessee, has risen to 21, according to local officials. — About 20 people are still missing, Grant Gillespie, the police and fire chief of Waverly …
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Yeganeh Torbati / Washington Post:
In Florida, DeSantis cut jobless aid just as virus began terrifying new wave — Unemployed residents struggling to survive on low state benefits are a preview of what could come nationwide as federal pandemic aid programs expire — DAVENPORT, Fla. — By June, Meli Feliciano's family appeared …
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Hundreds of Afghans arrive at Northern Virginia Community College, greeted by outpouring of support — They kept coming: people carrying bags of clothes, bags of toiletries, bags of diapers and baby formula and toys and books. — All were donations for the hundreds of Afghan refugees …
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Kavanaugh Is the Last Hope for Abortion Rights — Liberals have reviled the conservative Supreme Court justice since his confirmation hearing, but now hope that he still cherishes the reputation for moderation that he cultivated. — For the first time in 30 years — a legal generation …
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