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8:40 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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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.
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 and Talking Points Memo
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 …
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 …
Washington Post:
A dark day reminds us: Thousands of Americans are risking everything for this rescue mission
Alan Cullison / Wall Street Journal:
Inside the Taliban's Hidden War Against ISIS
Discussion: FOX31 Denver
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.
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.
Discussion: Commentary Magazine
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
A Bungled Mess  —  For days, those defending President Joe Biden's pullout from Afghanistan repeated …
Discussion: The US Sun
Amanda Macias / CNBC:
Biden vows to complete Afghanistan evacuation, hunt down ISIS leaders after Kabul attack
Discussion: Power Line
C-SPAN.org:
Pentagon Confirms 12 Services Members Killed in Suicide Bombing in Kabul
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 …
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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 …
Elie Honig / CNN:   Merrick Garland, get tougher on the insurrectionists
Mel Leonor / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Virginia GOP sues to remove McAuliffe from ballot; Democrat's campaign calls lawsuit ‘desperate’  —  The Republican Party of Virginia on Thursday asked a court to remove Democrat Terry McAuliffe from the November ballot, arguing that his elections paperwork did not meet the state's guidelines because it was missing a signature.
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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 …
Washington Post:
Lawyer for Afghan girls' robotics team tells Oklahoma woman to stop taking credit for rescue  —  A lawyer for the famed all-girls Afghan robotics team has sent a cease-and-desist letter to an Oklahoma woman, telling her to stop taking credit for the girls' escape from Kabul and warning …
Discussion: Insider
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 …
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 …
Devoun Cetoute / Miami Herald:
Florida COVID update: case, death, vaccine count  —  Florida on Thursday reported 21,765 more COVID-19 cases and 901 deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.  —  All but two of the newly reported deaths occurred after July 25 …
Nami Sumida / San Francisco Chronicle:
How close is the California recall?  Here's what the poll experts say  —  Earlier this month, results from a SurveyUSA poll showed that 51% of likely voters in California's upcoming recall election would vote to remove Gov. Gavin Newsom from office.  It was the first poll to show …
Ben Makuch / VICE:
Why Are So Many Marines Neo-Nazis?  —  Last Friday, the Department of Justice released one of the latest in an endless string of indictments involving white men subscribing to the tenets of the far right and planning acts of terror in the U.S. The document also had an all-too-familiar detail …
Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
A Stranded Interpreter, and the Soldiers Who Would Not Let Go  —  Many Afghans who helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan are now in danger.  One spoke to us about his battle to get his family out alive as he hid in Kabul.  —  The Americans called him “Mikey,” and as an interpreter …
Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Texas House lawmakers debate GOP-backed voting restrictions bill  —  Democrats used every tool they had, fleeing the state en masse and forcing two special sessions, but a Republican bill to rewrite state election laws won initial approval in the House Thursday.
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
It wasn't hubris that drove America into Afghanistan.  It was fear.  —  Americans long remembered where they were when they learned about the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915.  The shock and horror of that event, in which a German submarine deliberately sank a British ocean liner with nearly 2,000 men …
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Trumpism Has Entered Its Final Form  —  Something happened last Saturday that was significant because it was unprecedented: Donald Trump spoke at a rally in the heart of Trump country—Cullman, Alabama, which gave the incumbent president more than 88 percent of the vote in 2020—and he was booed.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Bloomberg:
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Los Angeles Times:
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Reuters:
U.S. wants aid to Afghanistan to continue despite sanctions on Taliban
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Has Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan made us safer? Clearly not.
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