Here are some of AP’s Business Highlights. Topics include Hurricane Ida, the extraction of lithium from geothermal wastewater around California’s dying Salton Sea, S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq records, and reducing carbon emissions in the health care industry. Finally, the end of an era as Algeria became the last country in the world to stop selling leaded gasoline.

WASHINGTON (AP) — With more than 1 million customers in Louisiana and Mississippi having lost power, Hurricane Ida is sure to take a toll on the energy, chemical and shipping industries that have major hubs along the Gulf Coast. But the impact on the overall U.S. economy will likely be modest so long as damage estimates don’t rise sharply and refinery shutdowns are not prolonged, economists say. The hurricane is expected to inflict a less severe financial impact than Hurricane Katrina did 16 years ago, thanks to a lower storm surge and New Orleans’ improved levee system, which is better able to withstand storm surges.

Despite leaving more than 1 million customers in Louisiana and Mississippi without power it is predicted that the impact of Hurricane Ida on the overall U.S. economy will likely be modest. In the picture, New Orleans, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. Photo: 	Eric Gay/AP/TT

Finally, the end of an era as Algeria became the last country in the world to stop selling leaded gasoline.

Business Highlights: Ida’s economic damage and the end of leaded gas

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A space station astronaut is celebrating her 50th birthday with the coolest present ever — a supply ship bearing ice cream and other treats.

SpaceX’s latest cargo delivery showed up Monday at the International Space Station after a day in transit. Overseeing the automated docking was NASA astronaut Megan McArthur.

Megan McArthur poses for a portrait at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The space station astronaut is celebrating her 50th birthday with the coolest present ever _ a supply ship bearing ice cream and other treats. SpaceX’s latest cargo delivery showed up Monday, Aug. 30, 2021 at the International Space Station after a day in transit. Overseeing the automated docking was NASA astronaut Megan McArthur. Photo: Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP/TT

”No one’s ever sent me a spaceship for my birthday before. I appreciate it,” said Megan McArthur

Astronaut gets special ice cream delivery for 50th birthday

HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia is gearing up for an unusual presidential election in parliament. There will be only one candidate in Monday’s vote, a situation unprecedented since the Baltic nation regained its independence 30 years ago.

President Kersti Kaljulaid’s five-year term expires on Oct. 10, and lawmakers in the 101-seat Riigikogu parliament must elect a new head of state to replace her in the largely ceremonial post.

Alar Karis, a former state auditor and current director of the Estonian National Museum poses for a photo in Tallinn, Estonia, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. Karis is the only candidate running and he needs two-thirds of lawmakers’ votes to be elected. Estonia is gearing up for an unusual presidential vote in parliament Monday, Sept. 30, 2021. There is, so far, only one candidate — a situation unprecedented since the Baltic nation regained independence 30 years ago. Photo: Aron Urb/AP/TT

Estonia is gearing up for an unusual presidential election in parliament.

Museum chief is only candidate for Estonia’s presidency

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — <a class="" title="Bernie Sanders" href="https://apnews.com/hub/bernie-sanders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bernie Sanders</a> has long argued — but not proved — that his big government populism can win over voters in the largely white, rural communities that flocked to Republican Donald Trump in recent elections.

Now, as the chief Senate shepherd of a <a class="" title="Senate Dems unveil $3.5T budget for social, climate efforts" href="https://apnews.com/article/senate-democrats-budget-joe-biden-02eb40af7efea63708a8f439c039b5a0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$3.5 trillion budget proposal</a>, Sanders believes he has another chance to test the theory.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a town hall at Tippecanoe County Amphitheater, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, in West Lafayette, Ind. The Vermont senator is in Trump country this weekend, promoting a budget plan packed with progressive initiatives and financed by higher taxes on top earners. Photo: Darron Cummings/AP/TT

But evidence that Sanders has particular sway with Trump voters is limited.