Biden's job ratings decline amid Covid surge, Afghanistan withdrawal in NBC News poll  —  WASHINGTON — After a spike in U.S. Covid-19 cases and bipartisan criticism over the chaos from America's withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden's overall job-approval rating …

Conservative Radio Host Who Mocked Vaccines Dies of COVID-19  —  Phil Valentine derided coronavirus vaccines, but he changed his tune when he was hospitalized.  —  A conservative radio host in Nashville who derided vaccines and spread misinformation about the coronavirus has died of COVID-19.

Donald Trump Booed at Alabama Rally After Encouraging Crowd to Get COVID-19 Vaccine  —  Former President Donald Trump was booed by his own supporters during a rally in Cullman, Alabama Saturday night after he encouraged the crowd to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

How to safely evacuate Afghans at risk before it's too late  —  Time is running out for tens of thousands of Afghans trying to flee the Taliban after their takeover of the country.  —  President Joe Biden stated on Friday that military forces stationed at Kabul airport have a “mission to complete” …

Department of Defense Activates Civil Reserve Air Fleet to Assist With Afghanistan Efforts  —  Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has ordered the Commander of U.S. Transportation Command to activate Stage I of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF).  CRAF activation provides the Department …

More Kids Are Hospitalized With Covid-19, and Doctors Fear It Will Get Worse  —  Delta variant's spread is a concern as schools reopen; ‘This is different than we saw before’  —  Hospitals in the South and Midwest say they are treating more children with Covid-19 than ever and are preparing for worse surges to come.

On an encounter with Unvaccinated America at the hospital  —  News that the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is swamping hospitals nationwide has made me think of some of the difficult days I spent in a hospital as a University of Minnesota medical center spokesperson.

Facebook says post that cast doubt on covid-19 vaccine was most popular on the platform from January through March  —  The social-media platform's Saturday evening acknowledgment comes after a lengthy internal debate over whether to share data.  —  Facebook said Saturday evening …

Why We Must Not Abandon the People of Afghanistan - For Their Sakes and Ours … The abandonment of Afghanistan and its people is tragic, dangerous, unnecessary, not in their interests and not in ours.  In the aftermath of the decision to return Afghanistan to the same group from which the carnage …

Jesse Jackson and wife, Jacqueline, hospitalized with Covid-19  —  The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and his wife, Jacqueline, were being treated at a Chicago hospital Saturday after being diagnosed with Covid-19, their representatives said in a statement.  —  The Rainbow Push Coalition …

US special operations forces race to save former Afghan comrades in jeopardy  —  The current and former military members are getting people out “one at a time.”  —  Current and former U.S. military special operations and intelligence community operatives are using their own networks of contacts …

Former Pence aide says Trump and Miller stymied Afghan refugee efforts.  —  A top homeland security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence accused the Trump administration of distorting the truth about Afghan refugees, writing on Twitter that the former president and Stephen Miller …

As Biden Faces a Political Crisis, His Party Looks On in Alarm  —  Democrats fear that if the pandemic or the situation in Afghanistan continues to worsen, their party may lose the confidence of the moderate swing voters who lifted it to victory in 2020.  —  With President Biden facing …

What Biden doesn't understand  —  GETTYSBURG — On an overcast day, the national park that has preserved the history of one of the bloodiest and most significant battles of the American Civil War is filled with people from all over the country.  It is a testament to the desire everywhere …

“No Further Action Will Be Taken”: Officer Who Fatally Shot Ashli Babbitt Cleared of Any Wrongdoing By Capitol Police  —  Yesterday I wrote a column in the Hill about the FBI reportedly finding no evidence a planned insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th.

What's wrong with Arizona's 2020 audit?  A lot, experts say  —  PHOENIX (AP) — A cybersecurity firm plucked from relative obscurity to conduct an unprecedented review of ballots in Arizona's largest country is readying to present its findings to Republican lawmakers.

Stanley Aronowitz, Labor Scholar and Activist, Dies at 88  —  As a self-described “working-class intellectual,” he declared that direct action was more potent than collective bargaining or conventional politics.  —  Stanley Aronowitz, a blue-collar organizer, university professor …

Biden's COVID hypocrisy won't protect children  —  Desperate to talk about anything other than the disaster in Afghanistan he created, President Joe Biden emerged from hiding for 15 minutes last week to accuse Republican governors falsely of trying to ban masks in schools.