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.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

Central Park 5 member, Yusef Salaam, to run for Harlem state senate seat: sources  —  Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park 5 exonerated in the headline-grabbing, racially-polarizing rape of a white Manhattan jogger, is running for public office, sources close to his campaign said Friday.

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.

John Fund: Why California's recall could deliver a sucker punch to Biden, not just Newsom  —  The result of California's recall will be determined by two questions  —  Tomi Lahren: If Newsom isn't recalled, he'll punish California with more mandates  —  Democrats are in panic mode …

Biden to travel to all three 9/11 sites for 20th anniversary of attacks  —  President Biden will travel to New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania on Sept. 11 to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at all three sites where they occurred, the White House announced Saturday.