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 …

Kabul's airport re-opens for domestic flights — with no radar — as Taliban battle resistance fighters in last holdout  —  KABUL — Kabul's airport reopened with domestic flights taking off Saturday after a team of engineers from Qatar repaired parts of the airport's air traffic control system last week …

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:

Guinea coup attempt: Soldiers claim to seize power from Alpha Condé  —  The fate of Guinea's President Alpha Condé is unclear after an unverified video showed him surrounded by soldiers, who said they had seized power.  —  They appeared on national TV claiming to have dissolved the government.

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 …

Rolling Stone Issues ‘Update’ After Horse Dewormer Hit-Piece Debunked  —  Update (1155ET): Rolling Stone has issued an ‘update,’ not a correction, or a retraction, by appending the hospital's statement to the top of the article. … After Joe Rogan announced that he'd kicked Covid …

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 …

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.

Trump's Long Campaign to Steal the Presidency: A Timeline The insurrection was a complex, yearslong plot, not a one-day event.  And it isn't over.  —  The House select committee's investigation into the Capitol Riot and the various media ticktocks explaining what Donald Trump and his allies …

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.

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 …

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.

In Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai's Media Company Moves to Close Down  —  Next Digital, which has published criticism of China for decades, said a crackdown had left it with no way to operate.  Its main newspaper, Apple Daily, closed in June.  —  HONG KONG — Next Digital, a Hong Kong media company …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …