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Plus Texas lawmakers pass new voting restrictions and more than one million people on the Gulf Coast remain without power. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story August 31, 2021 By Will Dudding Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Tuesday. President Biden delivering remarks at the White House. Doug Mills/The New York Times 1. President Biden vehemently defended the decision to end the war in Afghanistan. Speaking from the White House a day after the final transport plane carrying U.S. troops left Kabul, Biden called the operation to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies an "extraordinary success" and declared the end of an era in which the U.S. uses military power "to remake other countries." Biden blamed former President Donald Trump for negotiating a bad withdrawal deal with the Taliban. "That was the choice, the real choice between leaving or escalating," he said. "I was not going to extend this forever

Plus recovery begins from Hurricane Ida and the Biden administration investigates mask-mandate bans View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story August 30, 2021 Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Monday. A C-17 transport plane taking off from Kabul at sunset on Monday, as Taliban forces guarded the entrance to the airport. Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times 1. The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan is over. Twenty years after the U.S. invaded, the last military flight took off from Kabul airport today . Control of the airport was left in the hands of the Taliban, who said they were still working on the shape of their new government. In recent days, American military leaders said the U.S. would continue evacuation efforts and fully withdraw by Aug. 31. But those efforts were wrapped up a day early. U.S. officials said today that around 1,200 people had been airlifted from Kabul in the previous 24 hours. But that left behind at least 100,000 people