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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 …
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
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: About Jim Jordan's other Jan. 6 call with Trump
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
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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Stephen Collinson / CNN:   Biden's presidency of crises pushes White House to its limits
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.
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
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.
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.
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 …
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?
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 …
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 …
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
Politico:
Dems dig in on debt as painful September looms  —  Republicans raised the debt ceiling with minimal drama under Donald Trump.  Now Democrats are prepared to make them publicly refuse to do the same for Joe Biden.  —  Senate Republicans are digging in deeper and deeper in their resistance …
Discussion: Fox News, The Federalist and CNN
Yelena Dzhanova / Insider:
An 88-year-old professor in Georgia resigned in the middle of class because a student refused to wear a mask over her nose: 'That's it, I'm retired'  — A professor from the University of Georgia resigned last week after a student refused to wear a mask in class.
Discussion: Georgia Recorder and Slate
 
 
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New York Post:
The fatal failure of Gen. Mark A. Milley over closing Bagram Air Base
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
The Left Frets That Kyrsten Sinema Is Now Just Trolling Them
Discussion: Raw Story
James Osborne / Houston Chronicle:
You want tyranny? A war hero died because hospitals were full of COVID patients.
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
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Zoe Strimpel / Telegraph:
'The far Left have won and taken over America's elite institutions - we need to start again'
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’
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