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2:15 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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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 …
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.
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.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: ‘The worst day of your presidency’
Discussion: CNN, NBC News and The Daily Caller
Associated Press:
New urgency to airlift after Kabul blasts kill more than 100
Hunter Walker / New York Magazine:
‘A Total F*cking Disaster’: Inside Seth Moulton's Secret Trip to Kabul Officials condemned the mission as a reckless stunt. …
Washington Examiner:
Biden must accept accountability for his Afghanistan debacle
Alison Durkee / Forbes:
Florida School Mask Mandate Ban Struck Down In Court  —  A state judge in Florida struck down Friday the state's executive order prohibiting school districts from imposing their own mask mandates after a four-day hearing over its fate, ruling they did not have the authority under state law to issue the ban …
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Arian Campo-Flores / Wall Street Journal:
Florida Schools' Covid-19 Mask Mandates Upheld by Judge  —  Judge says Gov. Ron DeSantis overstepped his authority and allows school districts to require students to wear masks  —  A Florida judge said school districts could impose mask mandates and that Gov. Ron DeSantis had overstepped his authority when he banned such rules.
Discussion: Florida Phoenix
Associated Press:
Judge blocks Florida governor's order banning mask mandates  —  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — School districts in Florida may impose mask mandates, a judge said Friday, ruling that Gov. Ron DeSantis overstepped his authority by issuing an executive order banning the mandates.
Ana Ceballos / Miami Herald:
DeSantis overreached on school mask ban, judge rules  —  A Leon County judge ruled Friday that Gov. Ron DeSantis overstepped his authority when he signed an executive order to block school mask mandates, delivering a blow to the Republican leader as the debate over parental choice intensifies in Florida.
Discussion: The Hill
Elizabeth Fry / FOX 13 Tampa Bay:
Governor's school mask-mandate ban illegal and unsupported, judge rules
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.
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 …
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 House of Representatives chamber.
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Police report: Herschel Walker's ex-girlfriend claimed he threatened her life  —  A Texas woman who claimed to have a long romantic relationship with Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker told police in 2012 that he threatened to “blow her head off” and then kill himself when she tried to end the relationship.
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Doug Richards / WXIA-TV:   Complaint: Herschel Walker violated campaign law
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 …
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Newly Unsealed Transcript Reveals Crux Of Mueller's Collusion Case  —  Internal Trump campaign polling data from the 2016 election was sent to a person close to Russia's leader, according to recently unsealed statements by a prosecutor from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office.
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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New York Times:
Supreme Court Ends Biden's Eviction Moratorium
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
What California's Recall Election Says About America  —  We did not meet at the French Laundry.  —  Gavin Newsom, the California governor who faces a recall election on September 14, hasn't been back to the extravagantly expensive Napa Valley restaurant since he dined there with lobbyists …
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Kaylee Fagan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Trump-inspired conspiracies about voter fraud have infiltrated the California recall. And they may cost supporters votes
Discussion: Raw Story
Gabrielle Fonrouge / New York Post:
First US service member who died in Kabul identified as Navy medic Max Soviak  —  One of the US service members killed in the suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport has been identified, reports said Friday.  —  Max Soviak, a Navy medic believed to be in his early 20s …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
In Britain, Young Children Don't Wear Masks in School  —  During the Delta surge, British schools emphasized other safety measures: quarantining and regular testing for the virus.  —  From late spring into early summer, Britain's elementary and secondary schools were open during an alarming wave of Delta infections.
Alex Paterson / Media Matters for America:
Spotify's Joe Rogan and guest Meghan Murphy spread anti-trans vitriol and lie about COVID-19 vaccines  —  Rogan lied that COVID-19 vaccines are “gene therapy” and falsely suggested people who have already contracted the virus should not get vaccines … Spotify's Joe Rogan …
Michael Powell / New York Times:
New York's Private Schools Tackle White Privilege.  It Has Not Been Easy.  —  In this world — where tuition runs as high as $58,000 — the topic has become flammable.  Parents, faculty, students and alumni have all entered the fray.  —  Several years back Grace Church School …
Michael Kruse / Politico:
‘It Nearly Killed Me’: Michael Caputo's Life After Years Fighting for Trump  —  McALLEN, Texas —  The purpose of the work was on the sign above the door: “Restoring Human Dignity.”  —  Inside the Humanitarian Respite Center, run by Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley …
 
 
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Sister Toldjah / RedState:
Jen Psaki Says Probably the Worst Thing She Could After Biden's Afghanistan Presser
Discussion: CNN, The Federalist and The White House
Rep. Vicky Hartzler / Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden must resign
Discussion: The Hill and UnHerd
BuzzFeed News:
A Right-Wing Troll Appears To Have Tweeted About An FBI Investigation Into The Michigan Kidnapping Plot Before It Went Public
CNN:
Erin Burnett Outfront
Discussion: HotAir
CNN:
Renewed fears of political violence grip Capitol Hill ahead of right-wing rally
Mark Antonio Wright / National Review:
Why Exactly Did We Abandon Bagram Air Base?
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The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America's elderly
Vianney Gomez / Pew Research Center:
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Discussion: Axios