Sep 03 WATCH: Biden surveys storm damage in Louisiana neighborhood By Josh Boak, Associated Press Less than a week after Hurricane Ida battered the Gulf Coast, President Joe Biden walked the streets of a hardhit Louisiana neighborhood on Friday and told local residents, “I know you're hurting, I know you're hurting.”… Continue reading
Sep 03 Hawaii health care workers decry lack of COVID mandates By Caleb Jones, Associated Press Health care workers in Hawaii say a lack of government action is worsening an already crippling surge of coronavirus cases in the islands, and without effective policy changes the state's limited hospitals could face a grim crisis. Continue reading
Sep 03 Biden moves to declassify documents about 9/11 attacks By Eric Tucker, Associated Press President Joe Biden has signed an executive order directing the FBI to declassify documents related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Continue reading
Sep 03 Florida school mask debate headed for appeals court battle By Curt Anderson, Associated Press The battle over mask requirements in Florida schools is headed for a new legal phase following an appeal by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of a judge's ruling that a blanket ban on mask mandates exceeds the state's authority. Continue reading
Sep 03 EU leader ‘deplores’ Belarus behavior amid migrant standoff By Associated Press EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell spoke Friday hours after a state of emergency took effect in areas of eastern Poland following a surge in illegal migration. Continue reading
Sep 03 WATCH: Blinken says the U.S. will learn from lessons in Afghanistan By Associated Press U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the State Department is committed to looking at everything that's happened between the U.S. and Afghanistan diplomatically "from day one through the present, and to draw lessons from it."… Continue reading
Sep 03 As Afghan refugees arrive in the U.S., Southeast Asian American advocates urge more support By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Many Vietnamese, Lao, Hmong, and Cambodian Americans see their own families’ journeys to America in the voyage Afghans are making now. Continue reading
Sep 03 More than half of Americans disapprove of Biden right now By Matt Loffman For the first time since he took office in January, more than half of Americans disapprove of the job Joe Biden is doing as president. Continue reading
Sep 03 4 takeaways about Americans’ COVID views at summer’s end By Laura Santhanam While taming the coronavirus will continue to depend on widespread adoption of key public health measures, the United States is still confronting the gulf between those who believe that something like getting a vaccine is a personal decision versus those… Continue reading
Sep 03 WATCH: Pentagon holds briefing as U.S. helps with Afghan refugee resettlement By Associated Press Defense Department press secretary John Kirby and Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck will hold a media briefing at 11 a.m. Eastern today. Watch their remarks here. Continue reading