• Hurricane Ida has knocked out power to all of New Orleans and inundated coastal Louisiana communities after making landfall on the same date that Hurricane Katrina hit the state 16 years ago.
• Residents in low-income neighborhoods are hunkering down in their homes because they don’t have money for gas to flee the devastating storm.
• In Afghanistan, rockets apparently aimed at Kabul’s international airport have struck a nearby neighborhood. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack that did not halt the steady stream of U.S. military C-17 cargo jets taking off and landing.
• Meanwhile, Ed Asner, who played Lou Grant in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” has died.
• Authorities order evacuations as wildfire threatens Lake Tahoe
• Israel’s defense minister has held talks with the Palestinian president
• Watchdog says North Korea appears to have restarted its main nuclear reactor

MIKE CORDER

The Hague, Netherlands

The Associated Press

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Ida knocks out New Orleans power on deadly path through Gulf

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‘We can’t afford to leave’: No cash or gas to flee from Ida

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Rockets hit neighborhood near Kabul airport amid US pullout

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Witnesses say rockets have struck a neighborhood near Kabul’s international airport amid the ongoing U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The rockets struck Monday morning in Kabul’s Salim…Read More

Afghans killed outside airport were seeking new lives abroad

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Lake Tahoe threatened by massive fire, more ordered to flee

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