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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 …
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Resign — Rip those stars off your pathetic nostalgia costumes and resign. Quit.
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Isaac Saul / Tangle:
Get out and stay out. — It has never been clearer. … First time reading? Sign up here.
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William Saletan / Slate:
The GOP's Phony Complaints About Afghanistan
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House Republicans introducing articles of impeachment for Secretary of State Blinken
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
Joe Biden Has Been Derelict In His Duty. He Is Unfit To Lead. He Should Be Impeached
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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.
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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.
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Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Florida court rejects effort by Gov. Ron DeSantis to ban mask mandates.
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Associated Press:
Judge blocks Florida governor's order banning mask mandates
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Arian Campo-Flores / Wall Street Journal:
Florida Schools' Covid-19 Mask Mandates Upheld by Judge
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Kirby Wilson / Miami Herald:
Florida Surgeon General Scott Rivkees to step down next month
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Alison Durkee / Forbes:
Florida School Mask Mandate Ban Struck Down In Court
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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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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 …
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Justin Reyes / KGNS:
Laredoan amongst 13 U.S Service members killed in Kabul attack
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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.
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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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.
Dara Lind / ProPublica:
These Afghans Won the Visa Lottery Two Years Ago — Now They're Stuck in Kabul and Out of Luck — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — Fakhruddin Akbari is allowing his full name …
Ann Marlowe / The Bulwark:
“Afghanistan Controlled by the Taliban Is Not My Country” — Afghan mayors' stark choice: Cooperate with the Taliban or flee. — As the Taliban advanced in Afghanistan this month, I have been talking to Daoud Sultanzoy and with Tawfiq Amini. Sultanzoy is the mayor of Kabul.
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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 …
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Conn Carroll / Washington Examiner:
Our institutions are failing us on China — U.S. deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger has a must-read essay at Foreign Affairs detailing the Chinese Communist Party's “grand strategy” to “displace American power” and “dominate a global order more suitable to Beijing's governance model.”
Ronna McDaniel / The Hill:
H.R. 4: For Democrats, it's all about power — President Biden and big-government Democrats are obsessed with power. They want to control whether your kids wear a mask, how much of your money you can keep, and what you say on social media platforms. Now, Biden's never-ending quest for power …
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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 …
Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Marine battalion commander calls out senior leaders for Afghanistan failures in viral rant — A Marine officer went viral after he posted a video claiming senior U.S. military and civilian leaders are not “accepting accountability” for the handling of the chaotic troop withdrawal and evacuation in Afghanistan.
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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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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.
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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 …
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