U.S. Citizens and Afghans Wait for Evacuation Flights From Country's North  —  The Taliban have left hundreds of people stranded in Afghanistan awaiting approval for departure.  —  Around 1,000 people, including dozens of American citizens and Afghans holding visas to the United States or other countries …

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 …

New PR ploy  —  The head of a prominent centrist advocacy group quietly seeded a news outlet that provides a steady stream of positive coverage for her organization and its board members' lobbying clients, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters: The fragmentation of digital media means virtually anyone can be a publisher.

‘A Private Matter’: Joe Biden's Very Public Clash With His Own Church  —  As a rule dating back to the election, the reporters who follow the president go everywhere with him but two places: inside his home and inside his church.  —  When Joe Biden goes to Mass at his home parish in Delaware …

State of the Union  —  DANA BASH, CNN HOST (voice-over): Challenges mount.  U.S. COVID deaths now averaging 1, 500 a day, and new questions about who needs booster shots and when.  As the U.S. ends a war, can President Biden get his domestic agenda on track?

If Gawker Is Nice, Is It Still Gawker?  —  “I'm not interested in ruining people's lives,” says its top editor, Leah Finnegan, who once insulted a baby in a headline.  —  When I started talking with Leah Finnegan, the editor of the newly restarted Gawker, I asked her whether …

Human Rights Campaign president refuses board chairs' request to consider resigning after helping advise Cuomo  —  The president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ rights group, refused to resign his position Sunday, after he said the organization's board chairs asked …

“No One Has Come”: Queens Flood Victims Left To Fend For Themselves In Storm's Aftermath  —  Family photographs, mattresses, empty refrigerators, and stuffed animals lined the driveways and gutters of residential streets in Woodside, Queens on Saturday, still damp under the clear blue sky.

U.S. Embassy contractors, visa applicants among Afghans left behind after one of the largest airlifts in history  —  KABUL — The day Afghanistan's capital fell, a contractor who had worked at the U.S. Embassy for six years was dismissed from work early.  —  Embassy staff had collected …

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 …

State Dept blocking private rescue flights from leaving Afghanistan, organizers say: ‘Blood is on their hands’  —  Americans involved in private evacuation efforts tell Fox News that the State Department is the only reason their planes haven't left Afghanistan  —  Kamala Harris absent as Biden takes heat for Afghanistan

N.F.L. Will Allow Six Social Justice Messages on Players' Helmets  —  The decals, with messages such as “Stop Hate” and “Black Lives Matter,” are part of the league's efforts to show solidarity with players who have protested against racism and police brutality.

Republicans don't deserve House majority if they push lies -Kinzinger  —  A U.S. House of Representatives Republican said his party does not deserve to win majorities in congressional elections next year if it pushes lies and conspiracy theories, saying that it “desperately needs to tell the truth.”

Military Analysis Raises Questions About Deadly Drone Strike in Kabul  —  A preliminary analysis said that it was “possible to probable” that explosives were in the car and that drone operators took only a cursory scan of the courtyard before launching an attack.

Our duty to challenge Catholic politicians who support abortion rights  —  Salvatore J. Cordileone is the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco.  —  Prominent politicians lost no time in reacting hyperbolically to the Supreme Court's decision refusing to enjoin Texas's new law banning abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat.

The rise of air rage  —  Pre-pandemic, the issue of unruly passengers was becoming increasingly omnipresent — data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) suggested incidents rose from 2012 to 2015, while whole conferences were dedicated to the problem.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's Approval Plummets as 52 Percent Believe State Is on Wrong Track  —  Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott's approval rating has sunk to its lowest level since he took office, with the majority of Texans believing the southwestern state is on the wrong track.

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 …

What the Justice Department should do to stop the Texas abortion law  —  Laurence H. Tribe is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor emeritus and a professor of constitutional law emeritus at Harvard Law School.  —  The Texas legislature and five Supreme Court justices have joined forces …

They Don't Remember Their Parents Dying On 9/11.  But They'll Never Forget  —  Twenty years ago this week, on Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists launched coordinated attacks on the U.S. using airplanes as their weapons.  —  Nearly 3,000 people were killed.  —  Many of those who died left behind children …