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No power, no flights, little drinking water in Ida’s aftermath

Louisiana communities beginning the huge task of clearing debris and repairing the damage inflicted by Hurricane Ida are facing the dispiriting prospect of weeks without electricity in the oppressive, late-summer heat.

 
Biden praises airlift, defends departure from ‘forever war’

Faced with tough questions about leaving Afghanistan, including Americans left behind, President Joe Biden planned to address the nation Tuesday about the way forward after 20 years of U.S. war.

 
1 dead, at least 1M without power after Ida makes landfall — PHOTOS

Rescuers set out to reach people trapped by floodwaters, and utility repair crews rushed in after Hurricane Ida swamped the Louisiana coast and ravaged the electrical grid in the late-summer heat.

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Ida rips Louisiana, heads northeast; morning may reveal extent of damage

One of the most powerful storms to ever hit the U.S., Ida was downgraded late Sunday to a Category 1 hurricane, but was heading toward Mississippi, more states.

The broken door of a house is seen after U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. ...
 
Rockets hit area near Kabul airport amid US pullout

Rockets struck a neighborhood the Kabul airport on Monday amid the ongoing U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. It wasn’t immediately clear who launched them.

 
Biden vows to complete evacuation, avenge deaths of US servicemen

President Joe Biden vowed Thursday to complete the evacuation of American citizens and others from Afghanistan despite a deadly suicide bomb attack at the Kabul airport. He also declared to the extremists responsible: “We will hunt you down and make you pay.”

 
California wildfire bearing down on Lake Tahoe

South Lake Tahoe and Tahoe City on the west shore had the nation’s worst air pollution at midmorning Wednesday, reaching 334, in the “hazardous” category of the 0-500 Air Quality Index.

 
Lake Tahoe choked with smoke from California wildfire

The Caldor Fire erupted over the course of a week into the nation’s No. 1 firefighting priority and was “knocking on the door” of Lake Tahoe, said Thom Porter, California’s state fire chief.