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9:30 AM ET, August 27, 2021

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Politico:
U.S. officials provided Taliban with names of Americans, Afghan allies to evacuate  —  U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies to grant entry into the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city's airport …
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The Dispatch:
A Defeat of Choice  —  It did not have to be this way.  —  The attacks Thursday at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed 13 U.S. troops, making it the deadliest single day of the war for Americans in more than a decade.  More than 90 Afghans trying to escape …
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 …
Washington Post:
Biden struggles to address the most volatile crisis of his presidency  —  President Biden on Thursday confronted the most volatile crisis of his young presidency, the deaths of at least 13 Americans in Afghanistan that threatened to undermine his credentials as a seasoned global leader and a steady hand.
William Saletan / Slate:
The GOP's Phony Complaints About Afghanistan  —  On Thursday, suicide bombers killed scores of people outside the Kabul airport, including at least 12 American service members.  Congressional Republicans snapped into action, demanding that President Joe Biden resign or be impeached.
Associated Press:
New urgency to airlift after Kabul blasts kill more than 100  —  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Evacuation flights from Afghanistan resumed with new urgency on Friday, a day after two suicide bombings targeted the thousands of desperate people fleeing the Taliban takeover and killed more than 100.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: ‘The worst day of your presidency’  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  When Kabul fell to the Taliban several days ago, rocking President JOE BIDEN's pullout operation, the White House made a strategic choice: They doubled down, didn't apologize and crossed their fingers that the nation would move on quickly.
Discussion: CNN, Forbes and Washington Post
Washington Examiner:
Biden must accept accountability for his Afghanistan debacle  —  At least 12 U.S. service members died from two attacks outside the Kabul airport Thursday.  But the number of dead and the number of attacks keep rising.  —  What had been a stain on President Joe Biden's administration is now a historic catastrophe.
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
What's happening in Afghanistan is horrible.  But how else was U.S. involvement going to end?  —  How, exactly, did the Biden administration's critics think U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan was ever going to end?  —  “Certainly not like this” is not a valid answer …
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
It wasn't hubris that drove America into Afghanistan. It was fear.
Alan Cullison / Wall Street Journal:
Inside the Taliban's Hidden War Against ISIS
Cathy Young:   Afghanistan and the Anti-Liberal Right
Amanda Macias / CNBC:
Biden vows to complete Afghanistan evacuation, hunt down ISIS leaders after Kabul attack
Trevor Hunnicutt / Reuters:
Biden warns Kabul airport attackers: ‘We will hunt you down’
Los Angeles Times:
‘I saw a flash’: Dozens killed in bombings outside Kabul airport
Discussion: New York Times and The Federalist
NBC News:
Officer who shot Ashli Babbitt during Capitol riot breaks silence: ‘I saved countless lives’  —  In the chaotic minutes before he shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, Lt. Michael Byrd focused his attention on the glass doors leading into the lobby of the U.S. House of Representatives chamber.
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 …
Discussion: Politico and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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New York Times:
Supreme Court Ends Biden's Eviction Moratorium  —  The ruling followed political and legal maneuvering by the administration to retain protections for tenants.  It puts hundreds of thousands at risk of being put out of their homes.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected …
Zachary Evans / National Review:
Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Eviction Moratorium  —  The Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration's eviction moratorium in a 6-3 decision on Thursday.  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the moratorium earlier this month to cover counties with “high” or …
Washington Post:
Virginia GOP tries legal tactic to force Democrat McAuliffe off the ballot for governor  —  RICHMOND — The Republican Party of Virginia filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to remove Democrat Terry McAuliffe from the ballot for governor because his signature is missing from a candidate form he submitted to the state in March.
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NBC News:
Clamoring for ivermectin, some turn to a pro-Trump telemedicine website  —  When users visit the telemedicine website SpeakWithAnMD.com, they are immediately hit with a warning: “Due to overwhelming demand, we are experiencing longer than usual wait times.”  —  The demand is for ivermectin …
CNN:
CNN EXCLUSIVE ‘Something has to be done’: After decades of near-silence from the CDC, the agency's director is speaking up about gun violence  —  Watch CNN Films' “The Price of Freedom” on CNN TV without commercial interruption starting at 9 p.m. ET on Sunday, August 29.
Discussion: National Review
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Living with the coronavirus will likely never be risk-free  —  Vaccinated Americans are facing a disheartening reality: Even after getting the shot, they'll have to live with some level of risk from the coronavirus for the foreseeable future.  —  State of play: A glut of data released …
Hugo Gurdon / Washington Examiner:
Biden's first 200 days  —  Joe Biden, like most presidents, made much of supposed achievements in his first 100 days.  Remember how, arriving in office, he promised 100 million COVID vaccine doses in that period.  It was a soft target, for, as some of us pointed out, the vaccination pace …
Anne Helen Petersen / Vox:
The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America's elderly  —  As millions “age in place,” millions more must figure out how to provide their loved ones with increasingly complex care.  —  Illustrations by Cha Pornea for Vox  —  This story is part of a group of stories called
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Resign  —  Rip those stars off your pathetic nostalgia costumes and resign.  Quit.  Tell that crusty Pinocchio in the White House and the faculty lounge Geppettos tugging his strings that you will have no more to do with his human centipede of failure in Kabul.
 
 
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