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For two decades, the United States has tried to create a stable, secure Afghanistan, President Joe Biden told the nation on Monday. But in the end, the president asserted, the Afghan government just didn’t want it enough.

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The decision to go back into offices has been met with mixed reviews, but at some point, it was going to be inevitable, right? For the majority of people, they haven’t seen the inside of their office building, let alone sat at their desks, in well over a year. What does that mean? Well, it’s gonna be pretty dirty and probably a bit sad.

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Fox News co-host Kayleigh McEnany parroted the GOP’s recent attempt to memory hole the Trump administration’s role in the destabilizing collapse of Afghanistan, loudly declaring on Monday that the Taliban quickly seizing control of the Afghan capital of Kabul “would have never happened” under President Donald Trump.

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The space-obsessed billionaires are fighting again—and now a federal court is involved.

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by Lily Hyde

This report was produced in partnership with Coda Story.

In the village of Milove on the Ukrainian border with Russia in Luhansk oblast, Ukrainian retired sailor Vladimir Tertishnik has not seen his daughters and grandchildren for more than a year. One daughter lives in Crimea, annexed by Russia; the other is in a Russian-controlled breakaway territory not far from Milove. Coronavirus restrictions have practically closed the borders with them both. Читать дальше...

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A video from the recently besieged Kabul was shared with me this morning, of what looks like a man falling out of an airplane. I dismissed it at first, because it isn't uncommon for exaggerated misinformation to spread in times of crisis. But soon after, a source in Kabul sent me a photo taken of a man who fell off one of the roofs in their neighbourhood. “He fell from the sky,” they said.

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ROME—American Cardinal Raymond Burke, who staunch conservatives in the Catholic Church view as something of an anti-Pope Francis, is fighting for his life on a ventilator in a Wisconsin hospital after contracting what he often referred to as the “Wuhan Virus.” The prelate was on a vacation from Rome, where he lives.

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On November 27, 2020, as then-president Donald Trump promoted election fraud hoaxes, one Twitter user appeared to share exclusive pictures from inside the rightwing Stop the Steal operation.

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National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan attempted to put a positive spin on America’s chaotic and disastrous evacuation from Afghanistan on Monday as the Taliban took over the country, waving off the scenes of diplomats being helicoptered to safety as just the course of doing business.

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The fall of Afghanistan’s capital city to the Taliban provided Russia’s state media with plenty of opportunities to churn out streams of anti-American propaganda, all while cozying up to the extremist militant group. Unfavorably comparing the U.S. pullout to the Soviet Union’s inglorious exit from the country known as the “graveyard of empires,” Russian government officials and state news outlets described the takeover as a total defeat for the mightiest nation on earth.

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Scouting Report: Nutribullet s new Air Fryer is the compact appliance every kitchen needs. It is sleek enough to blend in, but can air fry food quickly and efficiently, too.

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A bold truth-teller in a broken, racist institution? Or a toxic internal pest, an instigator of hostility betraying her own colleagues?

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Mary Trump’s first book Too Much And Never Enough sold millions of copies worldwide and put Trump’s niece on the map as both a hero of the liberal resistance and a key enemy of the MAGA movement.

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Things were bad when we arrived in Kuduz during my second deployment to Afghanistan, in 2010. The Taliban controlled everything up to the roads. Our Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) partners were demoralized and unenthusiastic about shooting it out with the more numerous and enthusiastic Taliban militias in the area. Week after week, month after month, we kept at it, fighting against the Taliban until, with a few months to go in what turned out to be an 11-month deployment, a group of 17 Taliban surrendered. Читать дальше...

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KYIV, Ukraine—All Russians will be banned from taking part in a huge new sell-off of Ukrainian state-owned companies, a senior official has told The Daily Beast.

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Scouting Report: Everlane’s Sport Shirt has one stand out quality—It doesn’t look like an exercise shirt, meaning you can wear it anywhere, but still get sweat-wicking, quick drying properties you’d expect from your favorite one.

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Only in the retiring, legacy-focused mind of Ron Portman, the pragmatic, back-slapping hands of Chuck Schumer, and the misty eyes of the ever-nostalgic Joe Biden is the $1 trillion infrastructure bill a triumph of bipartisanship.

Steve Bergman

Andrew Cuomo had just finished addressing New Yorkers, saying that the sexual harassment allegations were unfair and politically motivated, a product of changing social mores and misinterpreted efforts at connection with underlings, when, towards the speech’s end, he abruptly pivoted. None of that mattered. He was quitting, he said, instead of being a costly distraction for New Yorkers.

Abramorama

There’s a stark difference between a museum and a memorial—the former aims to present an enlightening historical account of a specific subject, while the latter seeks to pay tribute to a tragedy, and those who lost their lives. Those intentions are sometimes obviously at odds with each other, and the complications of reconciling them was at the heart of the creation of New York City’s 9/11 Memorial & Museum, whose conception, development and construction proved to be immensely controversial... Читать дальше...

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On Thursday August 12, the Census bureau released the final redistricting data from the 2020 census. What that count tells us about the current size and distribution of the American population has already been skewed by the political manipulation of Wilbur Ross, Steve Bannon, and others, but the new data about the changing density of population and its racial and ethnic makeup across neighborhoods is providing the information that will drive a whole new wave of gerrymandering across the country. Читать дальше...

Rebecca Tulis

Car names were the theme of Thursday’s puzzle, specifically the trend of cars named after cities in the American West. They evoke an outdoor lifestyle and miles of open road with names like the Kia Sedona, Hyundai Santa Fe, Chevy Malibu, and Kia Tulluride.

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“The Delta variant is spreading wildly around the country, particularly among the unvaccinated, with the U.S. averaging around 100,000 new infections a day,” John Oliver explained Sunday night. “And alarmingly, roughly 15 percent of new cases are children, with over 260 kids being newly hospitalized each day. And all of this means that many hospitals are yet again being stretched to a breaking point, particularly in certain parts of the country, with Florida and Texas alone accounting for 40... Читать дальше...

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Murray Bartlett and I spoke moments after I saw him take surely the most beatific crap ever taken on television. In both blatancy and lyricism it sets a new on-screen turd standard. Moments later, his White Lotus character, the highly strung hotel manager Armond, apparently died in a bathtub after being stabbed by rich-boy guest Shane (Jake Lacy), into whose suitcase Armond had squatted down in a gleeful act of righteous vengeance against the kind of obnoxious white privilege that... Читать дальше...

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Warning: Spoilers follow for the season finale of The White Lotus.

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The Biden administration is urging Americans not to jump to conclusions about the deteriorating stability of a country occupied by U.S. forces for two decades—no matter how obvious those conclusions appear to be.