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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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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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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 …
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Washington Times, The Western Journal, Forbes and Associated Press
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Distinguished persons of the week: Let's hear it for the deep state
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The American Spectator, The Irish Times, Twitchy, The Gateway Pundit and HotAir
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Afghans' suffering is ‘heartbreaking’ but unavoidable, Biden says
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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 …
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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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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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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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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
Silas House / The Atlantic:
Some Americans No Longer Believe in the Common Good — They now are thinking only of themselves. — About the author: Silas House, a writer based in Kentucky, is the author of six novels, including, most recently, Southernmost. — As a child in eastern Kentucky, I often helped …
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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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Instapundit
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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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
California launches investigation into recall candidate Larry Elder's financial disclosure
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Breitbart
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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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 …
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Democrats scramble to reclaim lost ground in statehouse battles — Arizona state Sen. Lela Alston (D) was sitting at home on Nov. 3 last year huddled with her campaign advisers on Zoom with “huge expectations” that her party could flip at least one chamber of the state legislature.
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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Reason
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, Homeless on the High Desert and No More Mister Nice Blog
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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Townhall, The American Conservative, Washington Times, Power Line, Morning Shots and Louder With Crowder
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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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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