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 …

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 …

“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.

Hostage crisis?  Taliban blocking departure of six planes carrying Americans, says GOP rep  —  Quite a bombshell.  Unless I missed a story somewhere, this is the first the public is hearing about this.  Chris Wallace must have missed that story too because he does a double take when Mike McCaul mentions it.

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 …

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 …

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.”

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.

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.

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

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:

John Major attacks ‘strategically stupid’ decision to leave Afghanistan  —  Former UK prime minister says retreat is a sign of a more isolationist US  —  Former UK prime minister John Major has criticised the withdrawal of western forces from Afghanistan as a “strategically very stupid” …

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 …

Poorly devised regulation lets firms pollute with abandon  —  A recent study finds that firms at risk of punishment cut their exhaust by 7% when the government is watching  —  Athletes don't get advance warning of drug tests.  Police don't share schedules of planned raids.

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.

‘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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

Labor Day is a celebration of solidarity — and freedom  —  When we ponder Labor Day, our minds, appropriately, turn to those who do our society's most punishing work and to the unions they organized to defend their interests.  One word the day brings to mind is solidarity.

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 …

Inside the Biden Administration's Push to Exit Afghanistan  —  U.S. strategy put Defense and State departments on divergent paths: The troops pulled out but the diplomats stayed—and were left exposed when Taliban took over  —  In June, as security worsened in Afghanistan …

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.

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.

Blinken and Austin to visit Gulf to address postwar stresses  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. national security officials will see how the failed war in Afghanistan may be reshaping America's relationships in the Middle East as they meet with key allies in the Persian Gulf and Europe this week.