BIDEN SAYS ‘AMERICA IS BACK,’ ALLIES SAY ‘AMERICA FIRST’: “Visiting Brussels earlier this summer, President Biden was single-minded in his message to American allies,” CNN’s Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins write. “‘America is back,’ he declared in the lobby of the European Union’s headquarters, repeating a mantra he had uttered at nearly every stop of his first trip abroad, during which leaders welcomed him as a salve to four years of Trump-era angst.”