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 …

Labor's surprising winning streak  —  “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”  —  On this Labor Day 2021, let's apply Mark Twain's famous quip to America's labor unions.  —  News about organized labor is always headlined by sad accounts about declining union membership.

Threats & Leaks New Documents Show Just How Crazy the Georgia Recount Fiasco Got  —  While the Georgia secretary of state's office was fending off calls from then-President Donald Trump to find votes, officials were also dealing with bomb threats.  —  Back in January 2021 …

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.

Afghanistan showed Biden unbowed  —  (CNN)Hours after the last US military flight out of Kabul, President Joe Biden began a meeting in the White House Situation Room with praise.  —  “You all did a helluva job,” Biden told his top national security aides, according to a White House official.

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 …

Minnesota State Patrol destroyed texts, e-mails after riot response  —  Loss of data becomes issue in ACLU suit over journalists' treatment.  —  TEXT SIZE  —  MORE  —  Minnesota State Patrol officers conducted a mass purge of e-mails and text messages immediately after their response …

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 …

Over 230 medical journals: Climate crisis is the “greatest” health threat  —  Global warming is affecting people's health — and world leaders need to address the climate crisis now as it can't wait until the COVID-19 pandemic is over, editors of over 230 medical journals warned Sunday evening.

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 …

Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, Who Went Viral For Getting Punched in the Face, Is Now Divorced, Broke, and Getting Booed Out of Restaurants  —  Schadenfreude is a German word meaning “joy from sorrow” — usually used in the context of enjoying someone else's pain — and a New York Times article …

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.

How the Texas Anti-Abortion Movement Helped Enact a Near-Complete Ban  —  Texans are almost evenly divided on abortion, but a combination of Republican control, conservative judicial appointments and cultural shifts helped the state's anti-abortion movement find success.

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.

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?

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.

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.”

“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.

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.