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Amie Just / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
All of New Orleans without power after Hurricane Ida leaves ‘catastrophic transmission damage’ — A slow-moving Hurricane Ida has left all of Orleans Parish customers without power due to “catastrophic transmission damage,” according to Entergy New Orleans.
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Associated Press:
Ida weakens as rescues begin and damage checked in Louisiana — NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida became a tropical storm as its top winds slowed over Mississippi on Monday, while across southeast Louisiana residents waited for daylight to be rescued from floodwaters and see how much damage …
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New Orleans Times-Picayune:
New Orleans lost power in Hurricane Ida after tower collapsed in river; fix could take days, longer — Mayor Cantrell, NOPD Chief Ferguson urge residents to continue to shelter in place — A massive failure of the transmission system that brings electricity to New Orleans and the east bank …
John Bel Edwards / Office of Governor John Bel Edwards:
Pres. Biden Approves Gov. Edwards' Request for Presidential Major Disaster Declaration for Hurricane Ida
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Washington Post:
Live updates: Hurricane Ida charges inland with destructive winds and torrential rain
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Nabih Bulos / Los Angeles Times:
Family says 7 children were killed in Kabul drone strike; U.S. is investigating — After a day at work, Ezmari Ahmadi was just arriving at his home Sunday in Khwaja Burgha, a working-class neighborhood a few miles west of Kabul's airport, when calamity struck.
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Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
Rockets fired at Kabul airport amid US withdrawal hit homes — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Rocket fire apparently targeting Kabul's international airport struck a nearby neighborhood on Monday, the eve of the deadline for American troops to withdraw from the country's longest war after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
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New York Times:
Afghanistan Live Updates: Children Killed in U.S. Drone Strike, Family Says — Family members said 10 people, including seven children, were killed by a U.S. drone strike on Sunday. On Monday, the U.S. military intercepted rockets aimed at the Kabul airport, as the withdrawal deadline loomed.
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CNN:
Nine family members, including children, killed in US strike in Kabul targeting suspected ISIS-K suicide bomber, relative says — (CNN)Nine members of one family — including six children — were killed in a US drone strike targeting a vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul …
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David Zucchino / New York Times:
U.S. Conducts Drone Strike in Kabul and Winds Down Airlift as Deadline Nears
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Inside Politico's Billion-Dollar Drama — From “son of” to mogul in his own right: Robert Allbritton just became the unlikeliest winner of the new media sweepstakes. — I was sitting in a bar next to John Harris, a former national editor of The Washington Post.
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
As Biden winds down Afghanistan, a refugee backlash looms at home — President Joe Biden has faced a torrent of criticism for abandoning Afghan partners as their country fell to the Taliban. Now, there is also a looming political controversy over the thousands of Afghans Biden will end up resettling over here.
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Be Glad Donald Trump Isn't Running the Show in Afghanistan
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David Rothkopf / The Atlantic:
Biden Deserves Credit, Not Blame, for Afghanistan — America's longest war has been by any measure a costly failure, and the errors in managing the conflict deserve scrutiny in the years to come. But Joe Biden doesn't “own” the mayhem on the ground right now.
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Why California's recall election matters — True story. — I've had people come up to me to ask if I'm Larry Elder. — Yes, I have been mistaken for the far-right radio host. — Well, I guess we are Black men who appear on cable television and talk radio shows.
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Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
‘Who should I vote for in the recall?’ Democratic advisors say Faulconer
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Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
American University of Kabul students and alumni trying to flee were sent home. — Hundreds of students and alumni of American University of Kabul gathered at a safe house on Sunday and boarded buses in what was supposed to be a final attempt at evacuation on U.S. military flights, students and alumni said.
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Laurence Norman / Wall Street Journal:
EU Set to Recommend Halting Nonessential Travel From the U.S. — The European Union action is in response to the increase in U.S. coronavirus cases — The European Union is set to recommend halting nonessential travel from the U.S. because of Covid-19, diplomats said on Sunday.
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
New polls suggest broad support for Democrats' voting rights bills — A majority of voters in seven states support elements of Democrats' voting legislation and passing such legislation without a filibuster-proof majority, according to a series of new state-level surveys.
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Adam Jentleson / New York Times:
When Will Biden Join the Fight for Voting Rights?
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Right on Cue, the President's Mistakes Are Our Fault Again — You can tell a Democrat is president, because we're starting to see pieces blaming “us” for his mistakes. In The Atlantic a couple of weeks ago, Tom Nichols wrote that “Afghanistan Is Your Fault.”
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Who's to blame for the deaths of 13 service members in Kabul? We all are.
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Lara Seligman / Politico:
Pentagon prepared for ‘mass casualty’ attack at Kabul Airport hours before explosion — Just 24 hours before a suicide bomber detonated an explosive outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, senior military leaders gathered for the Pentagon's daily morning update on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.
Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Appears to Have Restarted Yongbyon Nuclear Reactor — The reactor's apparent operations add to President Biden's foreign-policy challenges — North Korea appears to have resumed operation of its plutonium-producing reactor at Yongbyon in a move that could enable the reclusive country …
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Former Israel ambassador joins U.S. Iran team — Former U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro has joined the State Department's Iran team as a senior adviser, a senior State Department official tells Axios. — Why it matters: Israel is pressing the Biden administration to start discussing a …
John Solomon / Just The News:
FBI suffers another black eye, admits it hid payments to informant in white supremacist case — The revelations come at a sensitive time for the FBI and Director Christopher Wray, who has insisted widespread problems revealed about the bureau's conduct in the now-discredited Russia collusion case …
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Dave Lawler / Axios:
What Taliban rule will look like in the new old Afghanistan — With U.S. troops departing Afghanistan after 20 years, it's now time for the Taliban to decide how it intends to run the country — and for the U.S. to decide how to work with that government. — The big pictures …
Wall Street Journal:
Trapped in Afghanistan, Rescued by Volunteers: How a Handful of Americans Freed 5,000 Afghans — From a lounge at the Willard Hotel in Washington, a group of men and women mobilized a global network to conduct a two-week military-style rescue operation — Zach Van Meter, a private-equity investor …
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