We knew America would never be the same after 9/11.  We didn't know how bad.  —  Twenty years after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, what's striking about America's most cataclysmic day of the new millennium is how personal it still feels after all these years.

ADL head: On NY Islamic center, we were wrong, plain and simple  —  Syrian refugee and activist: ‘You either leave or you die’  —  Jonathan A. Greenblatt is CEO and National Director of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League).  The views expressed here are his.  Read more opinion on CNN.

As coronavirus fears spike, Biden's ratings sag and workers split on vaccine mandates, Post-ABC poll finds  —  The delta variant's two-month surge has generated a sharp rise in public fears about contracting the coronavirus, undermined confidence in President Biden's leadership and renewed divisions …

Florida grapples with COVID-19′s deadliest phase yet  —  MIAMI (AP) — Funeral director Wayne Bright has seen grief piled upon grief during the latest COVID-19 surge.  —  A woman died of the virus, and as her family was planning the funeral, her mother was also struck down.

Taliban Fighters Crush a Women's Protest Amid Flickers of Resistance  —  The women were assaulted with rifle butts, tear gas and metal clubs, while anti-Taliban rebels in the north vowed to repel an assault by the Islamist group.  —  Taliban fighters violently suppressed a women's protest Saturday in Kabul …

Why America has 8.4 million unemployed when there are 10 million job openings  —  The economy is undergoing massive changes.  There's a big mismatch at the moment between the jobs available and what workers want.  —  A mystery sits at the heart of the economic recovery …

Georgia DA Interviews Witnesses About Trump's Call to ‘Find’ Votes  —  The Fulton County investigators have interviewed state elections officials about attempts to overturn Georgia's election results by President Trump and Senator Lindsey Graham.  —  A local criminal investigation …

The Masks Were Working All Along  —  The most urgent question in the world for the past 20 months has been: What's the best way to stop the spread of the coronavirus?  But it's a frustrating question to answer definitively, since even the most logical solutions have been shrouded in what I've called the fog of pandemic.

‘The intensity has not changed’: Jason Kander on the fall of Afghanistan - and trying to get friends out  —  The Missouri Democrat has been described as a possible president - but for now he's focused on healing wounds of a 20-year war  —  ason Kander is tired.

White House chief of staff: US is ‘going to find ways’ to get remaining Americans out of Afghanistan  —  Afghan SIV holder details his harrowing journey to the US  —  Washington (CNN)White House chief of staff Ron Klain said Sunday that the US will find ways to get any remaining Americans …

White supremacy, with a tan  —  (CNN)Cutting taxes for the rich helps the poor.  There is no such thing as a Republican or a Democratic judge.  Climate change is a hoax.  —  Some political myths refuse to die despite all evidence the contrary.  Here's another:

Kentucky's schools struggle as coronavirus outbreaks close entire districts.  —  About a fifth of Kentucky's school districts have had to temporarily close since classes began last month because of coronavirus infections, an indication of the dire impact the most recent wave of the virus has had on the state.

As they did on the battlefield, the Taliban outlasted the U.S. at the negotiating table  —  On the day he was to begin peace talks with the Trump administration in the fall of 2018, Taliban co-founder and senior leader Abdul Ghani Baradar found himself in a luxury villa at a Qatari resort.

Ignore Biden's ‘uh, I meant to do that’ apologists on Afghanistan  —  It goes without saying that Republicans are pretty disturbed by the Biden administration's incompetent, neglectful, poorly planned, and disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.  But quite a few Democratic officeholders in Washington …

The Shows: Sunday listings for Sept. 5, 2021  —  CNN “State of the Union”: White House chief of staff Ron Klain ... Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) ... Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.).  —  FOX “Fox News Sunday”: Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) ... Ashish Jha ... FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell.

The Lessons of Defeat in Afghanistan  —  After twenty years, it hardly needs saying that America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were disastrous to U.S. interests and standing.  —  Early in 2001, scurvy broke out in western Afghanistan.  Typhoid and, possibly, cholera spread …