Hundreds of thousands are still without power in Louisiana as cleanup continues from Hurricane Ida
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Hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents still are enduring power outages in dangerous heat nearly a week after deadly Hurricane Ida struck -- and long lines outside gas stations are underlining people's struggle to stay cool and mobile.
In the wind-damaged city of Kenner near New Orleans, the mayor was blunt Saturday when asked what his city needed most. "Power," Mayor Ben Zahn told CNN. "We suffered a lot. ... When you don't have power, you need ice. So we have been trying to give as much ice out as we can, because people need to keep things as cold as possible."The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
The judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York on Friday informed the former president’s defense team and prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office that a comment was posted on the New York State Unified Court Systems’ public Facebook page last week by a poster who claimed to be a cousin of a juror, saying that Trump would be convicted.