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7:00 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 …
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.
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Florida court rejects effort by Gov. Ron DeSantis to ban mask mandates.  —  A Florida court on Friday rejected an effort by Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials to prevent mask mandates in schools during the state's worst Covid-19 outbreak yet.  —  Judge John C. Cooper …
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Jacob Ogles / Florida Politics:
Lincoln Project lambastes Ron DeSantis for school COVID-19 surge
Discussion: Raw Story
Arian Campo-Flores / Wall Street Journal:
Florida Schools' Covid-19 Mask Mandates Upheld by Judge
The Daily Beast:
Dad of Marine Slain in Kabul Vents Anger at Military, Biden  —  Kareem Nikoui was one of at least 13 U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing outside Kabul airport on Thursday.  —  Thursday was “an excruciating day” for California carpenter Steve Nikoui.
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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 …
Craig Shoup / The Columbus Dispatch:
‘He just enjoyed life’: Ohio sailor Max Soviak killed in Kabul airport attack
Discussion: Telegraph and The Daily Caller
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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Sister Toldjah / RedState:
Jen Psaki Says Probably the Worst Thing She Could After Biden's Afghanistan Presser  —  As we reported yesterday, President Joe Biden gave a self-serving speech Thursday afternoon on what was a very dark day for America and her allies in Afghanistan after suicide bombings left, at last count …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
HuffPost:
California GOP Recall Candidate Larry Elder Wanted To End Medicaid  —  In 2010, Elder said he was also against mandating that insurance companies cover people with preexisting conditions.  —  Larry Elder, the Republican front-runner in the campaign to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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CNN:
US intelligence community review does not determine origin of Covid-19  —  (CNN)The US intelligence community reached an inconclusive assessment about the origin of the Covid-19 virus following a 90-day investigation ordered by President Joe Biden, according to an unclassified summary of the probe released publicly on Friday.
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Andrew Miller / Fox News:
Intelligence community releases inconclusive COVID-19 origin report
Discussion: HotAir, Politico and Townhall
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
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Justin Reyes / KGNS:
Laredoan amongst 13 U.S Service members killed in Kabul attack  —  LAREDO, TX.  (KGNS) - A Laredo Marine is one of the 13 U.S Service members killed in the attack at the Kabul Airport in Afghanistan.  —  According to the New York Times, the reported death toll has risen to at least 170 people with as many as 200 wounded.
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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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: HotAir
The Columbus Dispatch:
J.D. Vance: Ohio State's vaccine mandate is outrageous ‘invasion of medical privacy’  —  We're all members of The Ohio State University community—either as alumni, students, or parents—and we're outraged that Ohio State will impose a vaccine mandate on its students.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:
Biden announces plans to give pay raise to federal employees  —  President Biden on Friday announced plans to give all federal civilian employees an average 2.7 percent pay raise, consistent with the increases he had proposed in his 2022 budget.  —  ″I have determined that for 2022 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
 
 
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Jeff Carter / Points and Figures:
Leading From Fear  —  Worth dissecting where we are with Covid.  Instead of watching the television …
Discussion: National Review
Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post:
U.S. begins detaining solar panel imports over concerns about forced labor in China
Conn Carroll / Washington Examiner:
Our institutions are failing us on China
Dara Lind / ProPublica:
These Afghans Won the Visa Lottery Two Years Ago — Now They're Stuck in Kabul and Out of Luck
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
Better Covid Data Will Guide Us Out of This Pandemic
Discussion: BizPac Review
 Earlier Items: 
Ronna McDaniel / The Hill:
H.R. 4: For Democrats, it's all about power
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Justice Breyer's Eviction-Moratorium Dissent Would Turn the President into a Dictator
Eli Clifton / Responsible Statecraft:
How the defense industry helped prolong the war in Afghanistan
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
The Republican pandemic response is breaking my brain
Discussion: Eschaton
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Police report: Herschel Walker's ex-girlfriend claimed he threatened her life
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Newly Unsealed Transcript Reveals Crux Of Mueller's Collusion Case
Mark Antonio Wright / National Review:
Why Exactly Did We Abandon Bagram Air Base?
Discussion: HotAir and The Daily Caller
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Paresh Dave / Wired:
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

 
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