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The contiguous United States just endured its hottest month since recordkeeping began in 1895, narrowly surpassing the Dust Bowl summer of 1936, according to NOAA. Every state in the Lower 48 ran above its 20th-century average, with more than 200 all-time records broken along the way.
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A wave of vandalism and contract cancellations is sweeping the country as Americans turn against Flock Safety's automated license plate reader cameras, with critics citing mass surveillance and fears the data could aid federal immigration enforcement.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Tuesday on advancing Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general to the full Senate, capping weeks of negotiations over a controversial Justice Department fund and lingering questions about his ties to President Trump.
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The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Monday to clear the way for an executive order placing new restrictions on mail-in voting, after lower courts blocked key provisions less than 100 days before the November midterms.
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President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to the White House Tuesday for separate meetings, with the wars in Iran and Ukraine both nearing pivotal moments.
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The United States and Iran each paused military action for a second consecutive day Sunday, a signal officials call encouraging as negotiators try to rescue a ceasefire deal that has been repeatedly violated since it was signed in mid-June.
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The US death toll in the Iran war has reached 17 after the Pentagon named the third soldier killed this month, as Yemen's Houthis declared a new blockade of Saudi Arabia alongside the ongoing standoff over the Strait of Hormuz.
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Smoke from more than a dozen active wildfires in northeastern Minnesota has pushed air quality to hazardous levels statewide, while four Michigan members of Congress sent a pointed letter to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney demanding measurable action on forest management.
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A record-breaking wave of wildfire smoke combined with a dangerous heat wave has pushed Twin Cities air quality into hazardous territory this week, part of a smoke plume darkening skies from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic coast.
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The Art Deco building that stood in as the Daily Planet in Richard Donner's Superman films sits directly across 42nd Street from a high-rise whose structural columns buckled Tuesday, prompting evacuations and a multi-block "frozen zone" in the heart of Manhattan.
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