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Biden defends the withdrawal. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story September 1, 2021 By Natasha Frost Writer, Briefings Good morning. We're covering President Biden's comments on the Afghanistan withdrawal and the latest from the U.S. Open. President Biden declared the end of an era in which the U.S. uses military power "to remake other countries." Doug Mills/The New York Times A choice 'between leaving or escalating' Speaking from the White House a day after the final U.S. military plane left Kabul, President Biden vehemently defended the decision to end the war in Afghanistan. The operation to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies was an "extraordinary success," he said, as he declared the end of an era in which the U.S. uses military power "to remake other countries." Biden has blamed Donald Trump for negotiating a bad withdrawal deal with the Taliban. "That was the choice, the real choice between ...

How the military turned its childcare around. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story August 31, 2021 In a photo from the Defense Department website, a program assistant fed a baby at the Center Drive Child Development Center on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in April 2020. Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Charles Oki/U.S. Navy By Alisha Haridasani Gupta Gender Reporter "Some commanders grumble that they are warriors, not babysitters." — New York Times article about military child care from 1975 Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT In 1978, Linda Smith walked into her new job as program director of the child care center at Williams Air Force Base in Arizona to find a distressing sight: dozens of toddlers and infants all crammed into one room with a single caregiver and a TV mounted on the wall. "They were all just running around the room, and there was just one chair — for the caregiver," Ms. Smith said. "Imagine ...