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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 …
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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.
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.
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.
Joseph Klein / Front Page Magazine:
Biden's Gift to Global Jihadists: A Safe National Homeland
Lara Jakes / New York Times:
How Many People in Afghanistan Need to be Rescued? The Number Remains Elusive.
Leslie Josephs / CNBC:
Delta Air Lines is raising health insurance premiums for unvaccinated employees by $200 a month to cover higher Covid costs  — Starting Nov. 1, unvaccinated Delta employees who have health insurance from the companywill face $200 monthly surcharges.  — From Sept. 12 …
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Content Lab U.S.:
Johnson & Johnson Announces Data to Support Boosting its Single-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine
JoNel Aleccia / Kaiser Health News:
These Governors Push Experimental Antibody Therapy — But Shun Vaccine and Mask Mandates
Marina Villeneuve / Associated Press:
New NY governor adds 12,000 deaths to publicized COVID tally  —  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul promised more government transparency on her first day in office and by day's end her administration had quietly delivered it by acknowledging nearly 12,000 more deaths in the state …
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Zachary Evans / National Review:
New York Governor Adds 12,000 COVID Deaths to Predecessor Cuomo's Count
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Select Committee to Investigate …:
Select Committee Issues Sweeping Demand for Executive Branch Records  —  Bolton, MS—Today, Chairman Bennie G. Thompson announced the Select Committee's first round of demands for records as the committee expands its investigation into the January 6th violent attack on the U.S. Capitol and its causes.
Discussion: Washington Times and Raw Story
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CNN:
House committee seeks documents from agencies on January 6 Capitol attack, signaling massive investigative effort  —  (CNN)The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack requested a massive tranche of documents from several US government agencies …
Discussion: NBC 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.
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Politico:
Jan. 6 investigators include Trump White House in first document requests  —  The select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection on Wednesday sent a flurry of requests to federal agencies for records related to the attack, including communications from the Trump White House.
Karen Pearlman / Los Angeles Times:
Students from San Diego County school district stranded in Afghanistan  —  At least 24 students from the Cajon Valley Union School District in El Cajon and 16 parents are stranded in Afghanistan after taking a summer trip abroad.  —  They are among thousands of individuals waiting to leave …
New York Times:
A Taliban spokesman urges women to stay home because fighters haven't been trained to respect them.  —  When the Taliban were last in power, Afghan women were generally not allowed to leave their homes except under certain narrowly defined conditions.  Those who did risked being beaten, tortured or executed.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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CNN:
Taliban tell Afghan women to stay home from work because soldiers are ‘not trained’ to respect them
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Infrastructure Summer: The Gottheimer Gang's Pointless Standoff  —  Conservative Democrats got a guarantee that the House would vote on the infrastructure bill by late September.  But that changes nothing about the process.  —  The problem for the Gottheimer gang is they simply …
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Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
Prosecutor: South Dakota AG to take plea deal in fatal crash  —  PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg will avoid a trial and take a plea deal for misdemeanor traffic charges in a crash last year in which he hit and killed a man who was walking along a rural highway, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Discussion: Vanity Fair and The Hill
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon requires military members get COVID-19 vaccine immediately  —  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered service members to “immediately begin” receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a Pentagon memo released Wednesday.  —  “To defend this Nation, we need a healthy and ready force.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Associated Press:
Pentagon to require troops to get Covid vaccines ASAP
Discussion: Trending Politics and Raw Story
Alan I. Abramowitz / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
How Donald Trump Turned Off Swing Voters in 2020  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — The number of swing voters — those who change their minds between presidential elections — has been declining over time.  — However, there are still some swing voters, and they can be decisive …
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.
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
In First Interview From Jail, an Upbeat Navalny Discusses Prison Life  —  Russian political prisoners today are subjected to “psychological” pressure, said the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, who is forced to watch state TV for more than eight hours a day.
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.
Jane Margolies / New York Times:
Offices Dangle Beehives and Garden Plots to Coax Workers Back  —  The latest perks include harvesting honey and digging in the dirt, part of a growing effort to give employees access to fresh air, sunlight and plants.  —  The investment company Nuveen has spent $120 million renovating …
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.”
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 …
Discussion: Insider and Tangle
Marion Koopmans / Nature:
Origins of SARS-CoV-2: window is closing for key scientific studies … Marion Koopmans is head of the Department of Viroscience at Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  Peter Daszak is president …
Jack Newman / Daily Mail:
Taliban vow to tackle CLIMATE CHANGE: Terror group sets out its eco credentials (presumably by taking Afghanistan back to the Middle Ages)  — Taliban spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi says they want to play a global role  — The terror group wants to help tackle climate change and security, he claims
New York Times:
Hochul Picks State Senator Brian Benjamin as Lieutenant Governor  —  Gov. Kathy Hochul, who had narrowed her choices to several New York City lawmakers who are people of color, chose Mr. Benjamin, a state senator from Harlem.  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy C. Hochul has chosen Brian A. Benjamin …
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
 
 
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Ross Williams / Georgia Recorder:
Herschel Walker bulls way into Republican field challenging Warnock
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats just launched a missile at the GOP's fortress of minority rule
Lynn Elber / Associated Press:
Fox News earns top ratings spot with Afghanistan coverage
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Wall Street Journal:
This Illinois County Is Losing People Faster Than Anywhere in the U.S.
Discussion: Reason
 Earlier Items: 
BBC:
Bilal Sarwary: ‘In the city I loved, suddenly nowhere was safe’
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Failed to Properly Disclose His Abysmal Book Sales
Discussion: Gawker and Raw Story
Andrew Harding / BBC:
Madagascar on the brink of climate change-induced famine
Discussion: Common Dreams
U.S. Department of Justice:
Leader of ‘Atomwaffen’ conspiracy sentenced to 3 years in prison for threatening journalists and advocates
Discussion: Raw Story and UPI
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
FCC looks to fine conservative activists $5 million for false mail voting robocalls
 

 
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Financial Times:
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