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8:15 AM ET, August 30, 2021

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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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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 …
New York Times:
Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 Storm
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Be Glad Donald Trump Isn't Running the Show in Afghanistan … It is of course impossible to say how the Afghanistan withdrawal would have gone down if Donald Trump had still been in the White House instead of Joe Biden.  But we can say this much: Whatever happened, the entire Republican Party …
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:   Biden's presidency of crises pushes White House to its limits
Anita Kumar / Politico:   As Biden winds down Afghanistan, a refugee backlash looms at home
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.
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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CNN:
Nine family members, including children, killed in US strike in Kabul targeting suspected ISIS-K suicide bomber, relative says
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Who's to blame for the deaths of 13 service members in Kabul?  We all are.  —  The last thing President Biden ever wanted to do was to preside over another ramp ceremony for more flag-draped caskets returning home from Afghanistan.  Indeed, the entire rationale of his troop withdrawal was to avoid further casualties.
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:   Right on Cue, the President's Mistakes Are Our Fault Again
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: About Jim Jordan's other Jan. 6 call with Trump
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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New York Times:
Afghanistan Live Updates: Rockets Launched at Kabul Airport After U.S. Strikes
Discussion: Forbes
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
David Rothkopf / The Atlantic:
Biden Deserves Credit, Not Blame, for Afghanistan  —  Americans should feel proud of what the U.S. government and military have accomplished in these past two weeks.  —  About the author: David Rothkopf is an author, a commentator, a former senior government official, and the host of the Deep State Radio podcast.
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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.
Discussion: New York Times and Mediaite
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 …
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 …
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 …
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
As the Taliban Tighten Their Grip, Fears of Retribution Grow  —  Taliban leaders have promised amnesty to Afghan officials and soldiers, but there are increasing reports of detentions, disappearances and even executions.  —  ISTANBUL — When Taliban troops seized control of the Afghan capital two weeks ago …
Discussion: Mother Jones
James Osborne / Houston Chronicle:
You want tyranny?  A war hero died because hospitals were full of COVID patients.  —  A little over a week ago, as U.S. soldiers risked their lives flying tens of thousands of Afghans and Americans to safety, U.S. Army veteran Daniel Wilkinson — who earned a Purple Heart in Afghanistan …
Zoe Strimpel / Telegraph:
'The far Left have won and taken over America's elite institutions - we need to start again'  —  Journalist and culture war warrior Bari Weiss tells Zoe Strimpel her plan to help the US fight the ideological rot enveloping it  —  Bari Weiss has always seemed to be the sort of person …
 
 
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Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
The Left Frets That Kyrsten Sinema Is Now Just Trolling Them
Discussion: Raw Story
Ahmed-Waleed Kakar / Newlines Magazine:
Taliban, the Next Generation
Associated Press:
Records rebut claims of unequal treatment of Jan. 6 rioters
Reuters:
Chinese foreign minister tells top U.S. diplomat world must ‘positively guide’ Taliban
Reed Galen / Miami Herald:
Florida's DeSantis has eye on presidency rather than COVID
Adam Jentleson / New York Times:
When Will Biden Join the Fight for Voting Rights?
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
Trapped in Afghanistan, Rescued by Volunteers: How a Handful of Americans Freed 5,000 Afghans
Peter Schorsch / Florida Politics:
Ron DeSantis Chief of Staff Adrian Lukis set to exit administration
New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Generator failure at Thibodaux hospital prompts scramble to move ICU patients
Adam Johnson / The Column:
On Afghanistan Withdrawal, NYT's Peter Baker Turns to Raytheon Board Member for Independent ‘Analysis’
Discussion: HotAir
Anita Gates / New York Times:
Ed Asner, Emmy-Winning Star of ‘Lou Grant’ and ‘Up,’ Dies at 91
Nick Allen / Telegraph:
Joe Biden ‘holds grudges’ and will punish Britain for Afghanistan criticism, allies say
Discussion: Power Line and Breitbart