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President Joe Biden speaks at the National Response Coordination Center at FEMA headquarters, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, in Washington. Hurricane Ida blasted ashore Sunday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Approval of Biden’s handling of Afghanistan plummets, poll shows

Americans give President Biden poor remarks on his handling of Afghanistan and more than eight in 10 want U.S. troops to stay until all Americans have been evacuated from the volatile nation -- even as the president sticks to his Tuesday deadline for getting out, according to a poll released Monday.

August 30, 2021
Security personnel gather near the entrance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

Intelligence report on COVID-19 origins inconclusive

A long-awaited intelligence report on the beginnings of the coronavirus pandemic is inconclusive, with agencies unable to reach a firm consensus as they found that both a natural origin and a Wuhan lab accident remain plausible.

August 27, 2021
In the file photo, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks Thursday, May 6, 2021, in Lake Charles, La. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

FEMA sending ‘surge team’ to Louisiana ahead of Hurricane Ida

The White House said Friday it is dispatching a "surge response" team from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help Louisiana respond to Hurricane Ida as it careens across the Gulf of Mexico toward New Orleans and the surrounding coast.

August 27, 2021
An emergency vehicle arrives at Wolfson Children's Hospital next to Baptist Heart Hospital Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, in Jacksonville, Fla. Duval County, which consists almost entirely of Jacksonville, is one of the hardest-hit areas with COVID infection rates in the top third in the state. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Rise in child COVID-19 cases, hospital stays alarms officials

COVID-19 hospitalizations among children have risen to the highest levels of the pandemic, prompting debate on whether the delta-driven surge is more ferocious in kids or if the fast-moving variant is reaching young people who are increasingly out and about and often unvaccinated.

August 27, 2021
President Joe Biden pauses as he speaks about the bombings at the Kabul airport that killed at least 12 U.S. service members, from the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden to Kabul terrorists: ‘We will hunt you down’

President Biden said Thursday the U.S. will "not forgive" the terrorists who killed a dozen U.S. troops and scores of Afghan civilians in twin blasts in Kabul and deepened the worst foreign crisis of his presidency.

August 26, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meets with Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Willard Hotel in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Biden-Israel prime minister meeting pushed to Friday

The White House on Thursday delayed President Biden's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, as explosions at Kabul's airport deepened the chaos around evacuations from Afghanistan.

August 26, 2021
In this April 8, 2021, file photo, a registered nurse fills a syringe with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site in the Staten Island borough of New York. Researchers and health officials have been monitoring the real-world performance of the COVID-19 vaccines to see how long protection lasts among vaccinated people. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

J&J: Booster COVID-19 shot produces ‘robust’ antibodies

A booster dose of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine sparked a "rapid and robust increase" in antibodies that bind to the coronavirus' spike protein, the company said Wednesday, as drugmakers work with federal officials to fight off the delta variant and ensure the lasting power of immunization.

August 25, 2021
Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci responds to accusations by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., as he testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool) ** FILE **

Dr. Fauci sees light at end of the pandemic tunnel by spring of next year

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday he sees the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel by next spring if the "overwhelming majority" of the 90 million people eligible for the vaccine come forward, as the delta variant of the coronavirus pushes the goal post for normalcy from this summer to 2022.

August 24, 2021
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the full FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden: More employers should mandate COVID-19 vaccination

President Biden on Monday told companies to impose mandates on their employees and pleaded with holdouts to schedule their first shots after the Food and Drug Administration reviewed "mountains" of data from Pfizer and BioNTech and fully approved a COVID-19 vaccine for the first time.

August 23, 2021