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David Rothkopf / The Atlantic:
Biden Deserves Credit, Not Blame, for Afghanistan — America's longest war has been by any measure a costly failure, and the errors in managing the conflict deserve scrutiny in the years to come. But Joe Biden doesn't “own” the mayhem on the ground right now.
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Ace of Spades HQ, The Column, The Guardian, Fox News, The American Spectator, Slate and Politico
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Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
American University of Kabul students and alumni trying to flee were sent home. — Hundreds of students and alumni of American University of Kabul gathered at a safe house on Sunday and boarded buses in what was supposed to be a final attempt at evacuation on U.S. military flights, students and alumni said.
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BizPac Review, Mediaite, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Mother Jones and Mercury News
Nabih Bulos / Los Angeles Times:
Family says 7 children were killed in Kabul drone strike; U.S. is investigating — After a day at work, Ezmari Ahmadi was just arriving at his home Sunday in Khwaja Burgha, a working-class neighborhood a few miles west of Kabul's airport, when calamity struck.
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Insider, The Daily Caller, BizPac Review, WBBH-TV and Wall Street Journal
Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
Rockets fired at Kabul airport amid US withdrawal hit homes — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Rocket fire apparently targeting Kabul's international airport struck a nearby neighborhood on Monday, the eve of the deadline for American troops to withdraw from the country's longest war after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
New York Post:
The fatal failure of Gen. Mark A. Milley over closing Bagram Air Base — Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, must go. — President Biden claims that the military advised him to close Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and instead use Kabul's airport to evacuate Americans.
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Be Glad Donald Trump Isn't Running the Show in Afghanistan — It is of course impossible to say how the Afghanistan withdrawal would have gone down if Donald Trump had still been in the White House instead of Joe Biden. But we can say this much: Whatever happened, the entire Republican Party …
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Washington Examiner, Salon, Mercury News and Political Wire
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Biden's presidency of crises pushes White House to its limits — (CNN)President Joe Biden is confronting an extraordinary confluence of intensifying crises that are pushing a White House already mired in extreme challenges to the limit. — Washington is on edge for the tense final hours …
Dave Lawler / Axios:
What Taliban rule will look like in the new old Afghanistan
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New York Times and HotAir
Anita Kumar / Politico:
As Biden winds down Afghanistan, a refugee backlash looms at home
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CNN and Associated Press
U.S. Central Command:
U.S. Central Command statement on defensive strike in Kabul
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American Greatness:
Our Afghan Nightmare: Tanks for Nothing
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HotAir, Denver Post, New York Times, theepochtimes.com, Associated Press and Power Line
Wall Street Journal:
Trapped in Afghanistan, Rescued by Volunteers: How a Handful of Americans Freed 5,000 Afghans
Lara Seligman / Politico:
Pentagon prepared for ‘mass casualty’ attack at Kabul Airport hours before explosion
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NBC News
Ahmed-Waleed Kakar / Newlines Magazine:
Taliban, the Next Generation
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Common Dreams and Boston Herald
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Chris Wallace slams McConnell's desire for ‘full-scale war’ after he calls Afghanistan a ‘complete success’
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POLITICUSUSA, Breitbart and Politico
David Zucchino / New York Times:
U.S. Conducts Drone Strike in Kabul and Winds Down Airlift as Deadline Nears
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Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Raw Story, Boston.com, Associated Press, Metro.co.uk, Outside the Beltway and Agence France-Presse
Amie Just / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
All of New Orleans without power after Hurricane Ida leaves ‘catastrophic transmission damage’ — A slow-moving Hurricane Ida has left all of Orleans Parish customers without power due to “catastrophic transmission damage,” according to Entergy New Orleans.
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Associated Press:
Ida weakens as rescues begin and damage checked in Louisiana — NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida became a tropical storm as its top winds slowed over Mississippi on Monday, while across southeast Louisiana residents waited for daylight to be rescued from floodwaters and see how much damage …
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Wall Street Journal:
Ida Makes Landfall Near New Orleans, Downgraded to Category 3 Hurricane — Storm is expected to be fiercest to hit the city since Hurricane Katrina caused mass destruction; All of New Orleans loses power — NEW ORLEANS—Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday and battered this city …
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Yelena Dzhanova / Insider:
An 88-year-old professor in Georgia resigned in the middle of class because a student refused to wear a mask over her nose: 'That's it, I'm retired' — A professor from the University of Georgia resigned last week after a student refused to wear a mask in class.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Recorder and Slate
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James Osborne / Houston Chronicle:
You want tyranny? A war hero died because hospitals were full of COVID patients. — A little over a week ago, as U.S. soldiers risked their lives flying tens of thousands of Afghans and Americans to safety, U.S. Army veteran Daniel Wilkinson — who earned a Purple Heart in Afghanistan …
Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
Rand Paul Claims ‘Hatred for Trump’ Hindering Research Into Ivermectin as COVID Treatment
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The Guardian and POLITICUSUSA
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Inside Politico's Billion-Dollar Drama — From “son of” to mogul in his own right: Robert Allbritton just became the unlikeliest winner of the new media sweepstakes. — I was sitting in a bar next to John Harris, a former national editor of The Washington Post.
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The Obvious Voting-Rights Solution That No Democrat Will Propose — The answer to one of the most vexing debates in American politics is an idea that everyone hates. — Democrats in congress are considering a policy that was long unthinkable: a federal requirement that every American show identification before casting a ballot.
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Why California's recall election matters — True story. — I've had people come up to me to ask if I'm Larry Elder. — Yes, I have been mistaken for the far-right radio host. — Well, I guess we are Black men who appear on cable television and talk radio shows.
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Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
‘Who should I vote for in the recall?’ Democratic advisors say Faulconer
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The American Conservative and NBC News
Laurence Norman / Wall Street Journal:
EU Set to Recommend Halting Nonessential Travel From the U.S. — The European Union action is in response to the increase in U.S. coronavirus cases — The European Union is set to recommend halting nonessential travel from the U.S. because of Covid-19, diplomats said on Sunday.
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New York Times and Mediaite
John Solomon / Just The News:
FBI suffers another black eye, admits it hid payments to informant in white supremacist case — The revelations come at a sensitive time for the FBI and Director Christopher Wray, who has insisted widespread problems revealed about the bureau's conduct in the now-discredited Russia collusion case …
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