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Washington Post:
Two Congress members make unauthorized trip to Kabul amid evacuation efforts  —  Two members of Congress made an unauthorized whirlwind trip to Kabul early Tuesday, leaving less than 24 hours later on a flight used for evacuating U.S. citizens, allies and vulnerable Afghans.
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Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
In Kabul, Private Rescue Efforts Grow Desperate as Time to Evacuate Afghans Runs Out  —  Defense contractor Erik Prince charges $6,500 a person, other groups' planes leave Kabul empty  —  A disparate group of American veterans, military contractors, aid workers and former spies is scrambling …
Discussion: abc7NY
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
A Better Afghan Policy  —  What would it have been?  —  What might a more successful exit from Afghanistan have looked like?  —  I have spent some time talking with colleagues and experts about that question, and it is a difficult one to answer.  President Biden's exit certainly has not gone well.
Sami Sadat / New York Times:
The Afghan Army Collapsed Against the Taliban.  Here's Why.  —  General Sadat is a commander in the Afghan National Army.  —  For the past three and a half months, I fought day and night, nonstop, in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province against an escalating and bloody Taliban offensive.
John Sexton / HotAir:
Is Jen Rubin now doing PR for the Taliban now or just lying by omission?  —  Jen Rubin has been supporting and defending the Biden administration on every possible front for months but she has really put her flack-act into high gear since Biden's drawdown of troops in Afghanistan has turned into a disaster.
Wall Street Journal:
Afghanistan's Falling Man: The 17-Year-Old Soccer Star Who Plunged From a U.S. Military Jet  —  Zaki Anwari saw no future as the Taliban streamed into Kabul.  Viral images of his death horrified the world.  —  Hundreds of Afghans swarmed the runway of Hamid Karzai International Airport attempting …
Lara Jakes / New York Times:
How Many People in Afghanistan Need to be Rescued?  The Number Remains Elusive.  —  U.S. officials are reluctant to provide an estimate of the one number that matters most in their stream of evacuation updates.  —  WASHINGTON — More than 70,700 people had been evacuated from Afghanistan as of Tuesday evening.
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
White House to media: We want our props on Afghanistan  —  In the span of a week, the White House went from struggling to explain a rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan to beating its chest.  —  Top Biden officials and administration allies have begun aggressively touting the success …
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Second Dose of J. & J. Vaccine Gives Strong Boost, Company Reports
Ben Smith / New York Times:
How Mexico Helped The Times Get Its Journalists Out of Afghanistan
more at Mediagazer »
JoNel Aleccia / Kaiser Health News:
Hot Spots Where Covid Vaccination Lags Push Experimental Antibody Treatment
Discussion: TCPalm.com
Roosevelt Room / The White House:
Remarks by President Biden on the Ongoing Evacuation Efforts in Afghanistan and the House Vote on the Build Back Better Agenda
Andrew Demillo / Associated Press:
Arkansas runs out of intensive care beds for COVID patients
Discussion: The Hill and Axios
Joe Kovacs / WND:
Gab launches brand-new job board to help unvaccinated Americans
Discussion: Gab News
Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
Ohio State announces a vaccine mandate for students and employees.
Thomas Mates / WKMG:
Children 5 to 14 make up largest group of new COVID cases in Orange County
Discussion: CNBC
New York Times:
Many Older Americans Still Aren't Vaccinated, Making the Delta Wave Deadlier
Jackie Salo / New York Post:   Fauci: Early use of monoclonal antibodies can cut risk of hospitalization, death up to 85%
NBC News:
Fury and disgust at CIA, Pentagon and in Congress that thousands of Afghans will be left behind
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:   CDC study shows unvaccinated people are 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with Covid
Washington Post:
Biden pushes to complete Afghan evacuation by Aug. 31 — but orders backup plan
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court's stunning, radical immigration decision, explained  —  The Court's decision on Trump's “Remain in Mexico” policy upends decades of precedent warning that judges shouldn't mess with foreign affairs.  —  The Supreme Court handed down an order Tuesday evening that makes no sense.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court says Biden administration must comply with ruling to restart ‘remain in Mexico’ program for asylum seekers  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday said the Biden administration must comply with a lower court's ruling to reinstate President Donald Trump's policy that required …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ron DeSantis's anti-mask mania is deeply unpopular.  Democrats must jump on that.  —  We now have a quality poll — from Quinnipiac University — that seeks to probe public opinion on the great mask debate in Florida in a lot of fine-grained detail.  And the conclusion is clear: Anti-mask derangement is losing the argument.
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Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:   More than half of Florida's students now go to schools mandating masks in defiance of DeSantis
Lucia Baez-Geller / CNN:
Why I voted to defy Ron DeSantis on masks for schools
Shibani Mahtani / Washington Post:
Harris, in Vietnam, gets a dose of China's challenge to the U.S.  —  Vice President Harris, on her second international trip in the role, got a taste of the intensifying rivalry between the United States and China as she flew into Vietnam — a former U.S. adversary wary of Beijing's growing dominance and now courted by Washington.
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Associated Press:
‘Pain compliance’: Video shows trooper pummeling Black man  —  MONROE, La. (AP) — Graphic body camera video kept secret for more than two years shows a Louisiana State Police trooper pummeling a Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight — an attack the trooper defended as “pain compliance.”
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Breaking: Herschel Walker is running for U.S. Senate in Georgia  —  Former University of Georgia football star Herschel Walker — at the urging of former President Donald Trump —launched a campaign Tuesday for the U.S. Senate, bringing both his celebrity and his untested political background …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Herschel Walker on Senate bid: 'I can't sit on the sidelines anymore.'
Discussion: Associated Press, CNN and Fox News
Politico:
Secret Service warned Capitol Police about violent threats 1 day before Jan. 6  —  Just a day before the Jan. 6 riot, the Secret Service warned the U.S. Capitol Police that their officers could face violence at the hands of supporters of former President Donald Trump, according to new documents reviewed by POLITICO.
Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story and Political Wire
New York Times:
About 89% of Rental Assistance Funds Have Not Been Distributed, Figures Show  —  Just $1.7 billion in funds intended to prevent eviction were disbursed in July as the White House braces for a Supreme Court decision that could strike down its eviction moratorium.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver / The Hill:
Democrats shouldn't squander the opportunity to pass transformative legislation  —  About 2000 years ago, a Jewish man with Roman citizenship shouted out the words, “Do thyself no harm.”  I would commend those words of Saul of Tarsus to the members of the Democratic Caucus.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
House passes $3.5 trillion budget plan, aims to vote on infrastructure package by late September
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
FCC looks to fine conservative activists $5 million for false mail voting robocalls  —  The Federal Communications Commission proposed a $5.1 million fine against conservative activists Jacob Wohl and John Burkman and J.M. Burkman & Associates for making 1,141 unlawful robocalls that made false claims …
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
How screwed is Adam Kinzinger?  —  Former President Donald Trump would love to take down Adam Kinzinger, one of his chief House GOP antagonists, in next year's midterms.  But Democrats might beat him to it.  —  Illinois lawmakers are on the verge of rolling out a new congressional map …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Leader of ‘Atomwaffen’ conspiracy sentenced to 3 years in prison for threatening journalists and advocates  —  Seattle - Cameron Shea, 25, a leader of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington to 3 years …
Discussion: Raw Story and UPI
Juana Summers / NPR:
The House Has Passed A Bill To Restore The Voting Rights Act  —  House lawmakers approved new legislation aimed at protecting the right to vote on Tuesday, amid a wave of restrictive new elections laws from Republican-controlled state legislatures.  —  The bill is named for the Georgia congressman …
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Nicholas Wu / Politico:
House passes John Lewis voting rights bill that's set to stall in Senate
 
 
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Failed to Properly Disclose His Abysmal Book Sales
Discussion: Raw Story
Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Billionaire Progressives Fund Weather Underground Terrorist's Ivy League Think Tank
Discussion: Power Line and National Review
Andrew Harding / BBC:
Madagascar on the brink of climate change-induced famine
Jessica Sidman / Washingtonian:
Florida Man to Open Florida-Inspired Bar in Navy Yard
Tara Copp / Defense One:
Kabul Evacuee With Potential ISIS Ties Detained at Qatar Base
Discussion: Breitbart and Defense One
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
Biden to Receive Report on Covid-19 Origins, but Challenges Persist in How to Deal With China
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Eric Adams ran errands for a prostitute named Micki as a teen, report says
John McWhorter / New York Times:
Performative Antiracism at the University of Wisconsin
Discussion: Althouse
 

 
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