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For the past 15 years, Leslie Schweitzer has helped support the American University of Afghanistan, from literally the ground up. As a board member of the university and chair of the Friends of American University of Afghanistan, she spent much of the past week with the president of the university, Ian Bickford, and other members of the board in Doha, …

Following the complete withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, a video taken by Los Angeles Times correspondent Nabih Bulos shows a group of Taliban fighters entering a hangar at the Kabul airport and examining what was left behind by the US military. CNN’s Anderson Cooper talks to Bulos about what he saw. Source: CNN

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Middle Tennessee remains deep in recovery mode after last week’s deadly and destructive flooding, and it appears the remnants of Hurricane Ida will offer the area little quarter. Source: CNN

CNN’s Nadia Romero surveys the damage Hurricane Ida left behind in New Orleans. Source: CNN

Hurricane Ida, which has now weakened to a tropical storm, made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near Port Fourchon, Louisiana on August 29. Source: CNN

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Hurricane Ida became a Category 4 storm early Sunday morning, rapidly intensifying to sustained winds of 150 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. Source: CNN

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards tells CNN’s Jake Tapper he is confident the storm reduction systems that protect the New Orleans area will hold against Hurricane Ida, but adds the storm will be their most severe test since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Source: CNN

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