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12:15 PM ET, September 11, 2021

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New York Times:
Times Investigation: In U.S. Drone Strike, Evidence Suggests No ISIS Bomb  —  U.S. officials said a Reaper drone followed a car for hours and then fired based on evidence it was carrying explosives.  But in-depth video analysis and interviews at the site cast doubt on that account.
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NBC News:
Biden, former presidents honor heroes, lives lost as nation marks 20th anniversary of 9/11  —  Six moments of silence will mark the times of the 9/11 attacks on Saturday, the 20th anniversary of one of America's darkest days.  —  President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden joined …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Ivan Pereira / ABC News:
9/11 20 years live updates: Former presidents joined Biden to honor lives lost  —  The anniversary will be marked by several events across the country.  —  Saturday marks 20 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  —  Hijackers crashed two commercial airliners into the World Trade Center …
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Sister of NYC firefighter who died on 9/11 calls for ‘resolution’ in Gitmo trial 20 years later  —  GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — The sister of a New York firefighter who died in World Trade Center while trying to help people escape in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks told the story of her brother's heroism …
Dean Rotbart / Wall Street Journal:   How The Wall Street Journal Published on 9/11
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Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
Biden knows his vax mandates are unconstitutional — but just doesn't care
Discussion: Newsweek and National Review
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:   Breyer's airbrushed portrayal of the judicial process
Associated Press:
Biden, Obama, Clinton mark 9/11 in NYC with display of unity  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Three presidents and their wives stood somberly side by side at the National September 11 Memorial, sharing a moment of silence to mark the anniversary of the nation's worst terror attack with a display of unity.
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New York Times:
Biden's Sweeping Vaccine Mandates Infuriate Republican Governors  —  Some employers and business groups welcomed the new coronavirus requirements, but many G.O.P. leaders issued outright condemnations.  —  President Biden's orders pushing millions of workers to get vaccinated were aimed …
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New York Times:
Federal Research Bolsters the Case for Vaccine Mandates  —  Scientists believe the administration's new measures may tamp down the pandemic, although the effects will not immediately be obvious.  —  Just a day after President Biden issued broad mandates aimed at encouraging American workers …
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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Salesforce offers to relocate employees and their families after Texas abortion law goes into effect  — Salesforce committed to helping employees and their families relocate if they're concerned about the ability to seek reproductive care, after a Texas abortion law went into effect.
Tom Fish / Newsweek:
Texas Man Killed Prominent Lawyer Because She Voted for Joe Biden: Police  —  A police affidavit has revealed the extreme motivations allegedly driving the assault and murder of a prominent El Paso lawyer couple.  —  Joseph Angel Alvarez, 38, was arrrested on Wednesday in connection …
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KWTX-TV:
Affidavit: Texas man murdered woman, shot her husband, because they voted for Biden
Discussion: Insider and Law & Crime
Mark Landler / New York Times:
20 Years On, the War on Terror Grinds Along, With No End in Sight  —  The failures in Iraq and Afghanistan obscure the striking success of a multilateral effort that extends to as many as 85 countries.  —  When President Biden told an exhausted nation on Aug. 31 that the last C-17 cargo plane …
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:   Are we safer now than we were on 9/11?  —  GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Two decades …
Julia Azari / Mischiefs of Faction:
How the politics of 9/11 became American politics  —  In 2018 I encountered, for the first time, a room full of college students with no memory of the September 11, 2001 attacks.  It was a remarkable moment, though perhaps it's also remarkable that it took that long.
Reuters:
U.S. could authorize Pfizer COVID-19 shot for kids age 5-11 in October -sources  —  Top U.S. health officials believe that Pfizer Inc's (PFE.N) COVID-19 vaccine could be authorized for children aged 5-11 years old by the end of October, two sources familiar with the situation said on Friday.
Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
EXCERPT: On 9/11, reporting from Taliban-controlled Kabul  —  The following account from Kathy Gannon, now news director for Afghanistan and Pakistan for The Associated Press, is excerpted from the book “September 11: The 9/11 Story, Aftermath and Legacy,” an in-depth look at AP's coverage of 9/11 and the events that followed.
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
A secretive Pentagon program that started on Trump's last day in office just ended.  The mystery has not.  —  Control of a remarkable 6 percent of the Internet was handed over to a Florida company as part of a cybersecurity pilot project.  Now the Pentagon has taken all 175 million IP address spaces back.
Isabella Murray / MLive.com:
‘COVID kills moms’: 8 pregnant women dead in Mississippi  —  Eight pregnant women have recently died of COVID-19 in Mississippi, State Health Department officials said during a Wednesday news conference, with all the babies born premature but alive.  —  The eight women who died from the virus …
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Biden unlikely to formally recognize Taliban government  —  They'd promised to be “inclusive.”  But as the Taliban unveiled their new caretaker government in Afghanistan this week — an all-male roster of hardline clerics, veteran fighters and at least one figure sought by the FBI — they met howls of protest in Washington.
Discussion: CBS News
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Newsom's rebound papers over broader trouble for Democrats  —  President Joe Biden's Monday campaign event with California Gov. Gavin Newsom will be a meeting of two Democrats whose fortunes are careening in opposite directions.  —  For Newsom, the past six weeks have been a resurgence after finding his political career on the ropes.
Matt Naham / Law & Crime:
Judge Refuses to Let Jacob Chansley Out of Jail Ahead of Sentencing, Calls Him a ‘Mascot’ for QAnon and ‘Hopes’ He's Really Had a Change of Heart  —  The federal judge who has presided over Jacob Chansley's criminal case doesn't appear to be entirely convinced that the so-called “QAnon Shaman” …
New York Times:
US Forces Were Training the Guinean Soldiers Who Took Off to Stage a Coup  —  American military officials have denounced the ouster of a president in West Africa, and said they had no warning of what their students were planning.  —  NAIROBI, Kenya — American Green Berets were training local forces …
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Biden thought he could persuade vaccine skeptics.  He couldn't.  So he embraced mandates.  —  President Biden's initial approach to the pandemic did not include widespread vaccine mandates, a policy that some advisers and public health officials wanted but that was viewed as a step too far.
 
 
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Cory Stieg / CNBC:
Delta Air Lines' $200 per month experiment for changing unvaccinated employees' minds seems to be working
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Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
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Zachary Petrizzo / Salon:
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Robert Zimmerman / Behind The Black:
List of lawyers for fighting mask and vaccine mandates
Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
US could default on national debt as soon as mid-October
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Robert Towey / CNBC:
CNBC poll shows very little will persuade unvaccinated Americans to get Covid shots
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Science Alone Can't Heal a Sick Society
Ben Chapman / Wall Street Journal:
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Washington Post:
A convoy to the Kabul airport, hostile Taliban and the faint hope that the gates to escape would swing open
Allahpundit / HotAir:
DeSantis on Biden's new vaccine mandate: What about people with natural immunity?
Discussion: RedState, The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
Khaled Elgindy / Middle East Institute:
The legacy of 9/11 in the Middle East Peace Process
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BinaxNow vs. Ellume: Why one rapid COVID test seems to be sold out everywhere
Davey Alba / New York Times:
Facebook sent flawed data to misinformation researchers.