Biden's first August as president shreds his momentum and tosses daunting new challenges in his path
CNN
President Joe Biden tried twice last month to get to his beach house on the Delaware coast. He never made it.
Far from relaxing, the 31 days of August were the longest and most wrenching of Biden's presidency. A month his aides once viewed as a launching pad for an ambitious autumn was instead consumed by mayhem in Afghanistan, a worsening pandemic and, as it concluded, a massive hurricane plowing into the Gulf Coast. A domestic agenda the President once hoped to spend August discussing still inched forward. But Biden's handling of chaotic and unplanned-for events dominated his time and the nation's attention.
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The CIA has assessed Ukraine was not targeting a residence used by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a recent drone attack in the north of his country, according to US officials, undercutting an assertion the Russian president had made to Trump in a Monday phone call.