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.

How a Small Town Silenced a Neo-Nazi Hate Campaign  —  A Montana town reflects on its effort to drive former President Donald J. Trump's extremist supporters back to the fringes.  —  WHITEFISH, Mont. — Richard B. Spencer, the most infamous summer resident in this town …

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:

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 …

POLITICO Playbook: Did Texas just reset the 2022 campaign?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  If you want to understand the interplay between religious faith and politics at this moment, Ruby Cramer is out with an essential read on President JOE BIDEN's very public, very personal clash with the Catholic Church …

9/11: As the decades pass, the act of remembering evolves  —  SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Across the vast field where the plane fell out of the sky so many years ago, all is quiet.  —  The hills around Shanksville seem to swallow sound.  The plateau that Americans by the millions ascend …

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 …

Millions in U.S. lose jobless benefits as federal aid expires, thrusting families and economy onto uncertain path  —  Federal funds meant to ease the economic shock of the pandemic are coming to an end.  ‘It just feels like being discarded,’ one worker said

Border Patrol scrambles to fill gap in wall left by Biden administration  —  SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — When President Biden took office in January, his administration ordered an immediate halt on the construction of a 30-foot high border fence, leaving a gaping hole at one of most vulnerable stretches of the US-Mexican border.

As Donald Trump makes noise about 2024, Melania Trump tries to stay out of the public eye  —  (CNN)As Donald Trump publicly mulls his political future, playing a game of “will he-won't he” in a potential bid for the White House in 2024, all the while flexing influence in primaries for next year's midterms …

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 …

Hamid Nouri: How Sweden arrested a suspected Iranian war criminal  —  In the arrivals terminal of Stockholm Arlanda Airport, Swedish police were expecting someone significant.  —  On board a flight from Iran, they were told, was an alleged war criminal, an Iranian official named Hamid Nouri.

Left-wing activists are using old tactics in a new assault on liberalism  —  It is possible to detect eerie echoes of the confessional state of yore  —  Liberalism was forged in the revolt against the confessional state that had ruled Europe for more than a millennium.

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 …

Texas abortion law could still be ‘destroyed’ by Supreme Court, Cassidy says  —  Sen. Bill Cassidy on Sunday said he expects the U.S. Supreme Court may well “swat away” the Texas abortion law once it comes to them in an appropriate case.  —  The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote …

Milley says civil war in Afghanistan ‘likely’ after US withdrawal, could lead to ‘reconstitution of al Qaeda’  —  The general emphasized that maintaining U.S. security and intelligence gathering in the region will be a more difficult task now  —  Gen. Mark Milley on ending America's longest war in Fox News exclusive interview

Study shows Black offenders more likely to get federal life sentences  —  Black Americans are more likely to get federal life sentences than whites or Latinos, a new study has found.  —  Why it matters: The analysis, published recently in Criminology further illustrates the racial disparities …

Two anchors of COVID safety net ending, affecting millions  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Mary Taboniar went 15 months without a paycheck, thanks to the COVID pandemic.  A housekeeper at the Hilton Hawaiian Village resort in Honolulu, the single mother of two saw her income completely vanish as the virus devastated the hospitality industry.

Now CNN's Jim Acosta is labeling Tucker Carlson a ‘human manure spreader’ — and threat to democracy  —  CNN's Jim Acosta once again blasted Fox News personality Tucker Carlson on Saturday.  —  Acosta has made a KKK quip about the far-right host.  He has referred to Carlson as the network's …

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.

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 …

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 …