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8:35 PM ET, August 27, 2021

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James Gordon Meek / ABC News:
US special operations vets carry out daring mission to save Afghan allies  —  At least 13 service members were killed in an attack in Kabul Thursday.  —  With the Taliban growing more violent and adding checkpoints near Kabul's airport, an all-volunteer group of American veterans …
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Wall Street Journal:
In Its Last Days in Kabul, U.S. Turns to Taliban as a Partner  —  Stretched thin, American forces rely on militants they fought for 20 years to help provide security at the airport  —  Twenty years ago, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to get rid of the Taliban.
The Dispatch:
A Defeat of Choice
New York Times:
He was a baby on 9/11.  Now he's one of the last casualties of America's longest war.  —  After Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, 20, landed in Afghanistan with his Marine unit, his father, Jim, began checking his phone for a little green dot.  Mr. McCollum had not been able to talk with his son …
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Casper Star-Tribune:
Wyoming Marine among those killed in Afghanistan airport bombing  —  A Marine from Wyoming was among the troops killed Thursday in a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan.  —  Rylee McCollum had been sent to Afghanistan on his first deployment when the American evacuation began, his sister said …
Justin Reyes / KGNS:
Laredoan amongst 13 U.S Service members killed in Kabul attack
Josephine Harvey / Yahoo News:
Texas Anti-Mask ‘Freedom Rally’ Organizer Fighting For His Life With COVID-19  —  A Texas man who helped organize protests against pandemic restrictions is fighting for his life after being hospitalized for nearly a month with COVID-19, the  —  San Angelo Standard-Times reported.
Bob Smietana / Religion News Service:
NRB spokesman Dan Darling fired after pro-vaccine statements on ‘Morning Joe’  —  Daniel Darling, right, appears on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Aug. 2, 2021, with host Joe Scarborough.  Video screengrab  —  (RNS) — The spokesman for a major evangelical nonprofit was fired for promoting vaccines on the MSNBC …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jacob Ogles / Florida Politics:
Lincoln Project lambastes Ron DeSantis for school COVID-19 surge … Jacob Ogles  —  Jacob Ogles has covered politics in Florida since 2000 for regional outlets including SRQ Magazine in Sarasota, The News-Press in Fort Myers and The Daily Commercial in Leesburg.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Arian Campo-Flores / Wall Street Journal:
Florida Schools' Covid-19 Mask Mandates Upheld by Judge
Discussion: UPI and FOX 13 Tampa Bay
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
The utter ridiculousness of calls for Joe Biden to resign  —  (CNN)Thursday was a very bad day for Joe Biden as president.  —  The deaths of 13 American soldiers after twin blasts at the Kabul airport served as a devastating blow for an already fraught attempt by Biden to pull all American troops …
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Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
California parole panel votes in favor of release from prison for Sirhan Sirhan  —  Parole for 77-year-old convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy still must be approved by full board, governor  —  A California parole board panel on Friday voted in favor of Sirhan B. Sirhan's request …
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Associated Press:
RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan wins parole at 16th time of asking
Discussion: National Review
Craig Shoup / The Columbus Dispatch:
‘He just enjoyed life’: Ohio sailor Max Soviak killed in Kabul airport attack  —  An Ohio Navy corpsman is among the 13 Americans killed in Thursday's bombings outside the Kabul airport in Afghanistan.  —  Maxton “Max” Soviak, 22, of Berlin Heights, was a 2017 graduate of Edison High School …
Discussion: Telegraph and The Daily Caller
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The Daily Beast:
Dad of Marine Slain in Kabul Vents Anger at Military, Biden
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Meredith Wadman / Science:
Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine—but no infection parties, please  —  The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses …
María Paúl / Washington Post:
A school district opted out of a free meals program, saying students could ‘become spoiled’  —  With two girls in elementary school and a mother who is a teacher, the Dringenburg household in a Milwaukee suburb had been joyous and excited about back-to-school season — until this year …
Ben Winck / Insider:
Inflation is cooling off just as economists, the Fed, and Biden expected  — The PCE inflation measure rose 0.4% in July, signaling a slowdown in price growth from the prior month.  — The print matched the median economist estimate.  It was the slowest price growth since February.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justice Breyer on Retirement and the Role of Politics at the Supreme Court  —  In an interview prompted by his new book, the 83-year-old leader of the court's liberal wing said he is working on a decision about when to step down.  —  WASHINGTON — Justice Stephen G. Breyer says he is struggling …
Joel Burgess / The Asheville Citizen Times:
GOP senator to Asheville business group: COVID-19 unvaccinated the problem, not immigrants  —  ASHEVILLE - Sen. Thom Tillis told a conservative local business group that anti-pandemic measures should focus on getting North Carolinians vaccinated, not on migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Melanie Zanona / CNN:
Republicans split on strategy to make Biden pay a political price for Afghanistan  —  (CNN)The GOP is divided over how hard — and how quickly — to go after President Joe Biden in the wake of Thursday's deadly attack on US troops at the Kabul airport.  —  While a growing chorus of rank …
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Ledyard King / USA Today:
‘Day of reckoning’: GOP unified in blaming Biden for Afghanistan bombing, divided on refugees and next steps
Discussion: New York Post, Daily Kos and The Hill
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Days After ‘Kraken’ Sanctions Ruling, Wisconsin Governor Asks Judge to Force Trump to Pay Up ‘Personally’  —  Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) asked a federal judge to force former President Donald Trump to “personally” pay fees for his “audacious” election-subversion efforts …
CNN:
Parents chase and shout at governor over mask mandate  —  A meeting that included discussion about Connecticut's school mask mandate got heated as angry parents followed Gov. Ned Lamont out of the building and shouted at him.Source: WFSB  —  FOLLOW CNN POLITICS
Discussion: HotAir
Jeff Carter / Points and Figures:
Leading From Fear  —  Worth dissecting where we are with Covid.  Instead of watching the television, or listening to blowhard politicians, it is best to look at data and statistics.  Unfortunately, most people do not understand stats.  Most of the stats you see in the news are manipulated in some way to drive an opinion.
Discussion: National Review
New York Post:
Taliban kill squad hunting down Afghans — using US biometric data  —  The Taliban has mobilized a special unit, called Al Isha, to hunt down Afghans who helped US and allied forces — and it's using US equipment and data to do it.  —  Nawazuddin Haqqani, one of the brigade commanders over the Al Isha unit …
Discussion: HotAir
 
 
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“Afghanistan Controlled by the Taliban Is Not My Country”
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Discussion: Politico
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Newly Unsealed Transcript Reveals Crux Of Mueller's Collusion Case
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
In Britain, Young Children Don't Wear Masks in School