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 …

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.

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.

Nearly 1 in 3 Americans experienced a weather disaster this summer … Nearly 1 in 3 Americans live in a county hit by a weather disaster in the past three months, according to a new Washington Post analysis of federal disaster declarations.  On top of that, 64 percent live in places …

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 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.

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 …

Scoop: Trump nears deal for D.C. hotel  —  Former President Trump is in advanced talks to sell rights to his Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., sources tell Axios.  —  Why it matters: The removal of Trump's big, golden name from Pennsylvania Avenue would be a symbolic bombshell savored by opponents.

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.

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 …

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.

Thompson & Cheney Statement on McCarthy's January 6th Misinformation Campaign  —  Bolton, MS & Wilson, WY—Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) today made the following statement regarding Minority Leader McCarthy's false claim that the FBI and Senate committees …

Georgia DA Investigates 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 into then-President …

General Milley inspects tent city for evacuees built in 48 hours at Ramstein: “This is America”  —  General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, landed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany Saturday.  I've been following the trip this morning by keeping an eye on FNC's Jen Griffin's Twitter account.

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 …