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US subpoenas New York Times journalists over Air Force One story

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Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas late Friday compelling four New York Times journalists to reveal their sources for two stories about security shortcomings on the new Qatari-gifted presidential jet, the news organization said.

The Times reported earlier this week that the Secret Service advised Trump to take the older jet used as Air Force ...Read more

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American tests positive for Ebola in Congo, will be evacuated

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A U.S. humanitarian worker in the Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for Ebola and will be sent to Europe for treatment, the religious humanitarian aid group Samaritan’s Purse said Saturday.

The person has worked with the group’s disaster response team for 15 years and has been in Congo for the past month, the group said in a...Read more

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1 dead, more than 350 people rescued after flash flooding in southeast Missouri

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ST. LOUIS — More than 350 people have been rescued from flooded areas of southeast Missouri as of Saturday morning, officials said.

One woman from Crawford County, Faith Gregory, 23, was found dead at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department said.

Gregory was discovered by volunteer searchers in Huzzah Creek about 1.8 ...Read more

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Aspen Acres fire was a 'monster' that ate anything in its path, Colorado fire officials say

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BEULAH, Colo. – Tom Laca doesn’t remember much about the first day and night of the Aspen Acres fire. But he remembers the explosions.

“We had so many propane tanks exploding, so many things exploding that by the end of the night we didn’t even flinch when things went boom. Just, nothing hit me, we’re good to go, we continue on,” ...Read more

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Another brutal summer tests Arizona's decline in heat-linked deaths

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After nearly a decade of mounting heat-related deaths, Arizona’s Maricopa County, one of the nation’s hottest and most populous counties, finally saw its first drop in fatalities in 2024 and again in 2025.

But 2026 will be a crucial test. That’s not only because the county faces another brutally hot summer, but also because it's the final...Read more

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Keystone Pipeline owner agrees to pay over $26 million after 2022 Kansas oil spill

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The owner and operator of the Keystone Pipeline has agreed to pay over $26 million for violating the Clean Water Act after the pipeline’s rupture in Washington, Kansas.

On behalf of the state and the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a proposed settlement with South Bow LP and South Bow...Read more

Summit fire grows to 2,679 acres amid SoCal heat wave, looming monsoon conditions

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LOS ANGELES — A wildfire burning near the Los Angeles-San Bernardino county line grew to more than 2,600 acres Saturday, spurring evacuation orders in Llano amid searing heat and approaching monsoonal weather conditions across Southern California.

The Summit fire ignited shortly before 1 p.m. Friday afternoon in Llano near Jesus Canyon Road ...Read more

US subpoenas New York Times journalists over Air Force One story

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Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas late Friday compelling four New York Times journalists to reveal their sources for two stories about security shortcomings on the new Qatari-gifted presidential jet, the news organization said.

The Times reported earlier this week that the Secret Service advised Trump to take the older jet used as Air Force ...Read more

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Trump undercuts GOP midterms message with snub of housing bill

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A sweeping housing bill became law on Saturday without Donald Trump’s signature, or any White House fanfare, after the president soured on a package of dozens of affordability provisions that he derided as “a yawn.”

Trump’s scuttled support and the dead-of-night enactment are setbacks for his allies on Capitol Hill, who’d been looking...Read more

Northern spotted owls living in old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest were listed as threatened species because of habitat loss. Kyle Sullivan/Bureau of Land Management, CC BY

How redefining one word strips the Endangered Species Act’s ability to protect vital habitat

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It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their habitat.

But that’s what the Trump administration is doing by changing how one word in the Endangered Species Act is interpreted: ...Read more

More than 350 people rescued after flash flooding in southeast Missouri

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ST. LOUIS — More than 350 people have been rescued from flooded areas of southeast Missouri as of Saturday morning, officials said.

A woman missing in Crawford County is the only confirmed missing person.

The woman is Faith Gregory, 23, said Crawford County Sheriff’s Department Maj. Adam Carnal.

Gregory was last seen Friday morning about ...Read more

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Burnham's grip on No. 10 is firm but his plans are not

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Andy Burnham is now certain to be the U.K.’s next prime minister. What’s uncertain is almost everything else concerning his plans for government, with their detail still obscure to allies just 10 days out.

The former mayor of Manchester very quickly secured the backing of so many fellow Labour MPs that, while the contest for Keir Starmer’...Read more

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Iran rejects US talks as Trump issues fresh threat to Tehran

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Iran rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s contention that peace talks could continue without a ceasefire, saying Washington must meet Tehran’s conditions for resolving transit issues through the Strait of Hormuz and normalizing its oil exports.

While Trump said he wanted to continue talks, he also threatened late Friday to shower Iran ...Read more

Assassinations unleashed under Trump haunt Iran war endgame

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WASHINGTON — Shortly before President Donald Trump ended a ceasefire with Iran this week, Israeli officials presented his team with intelligence indicating Tehran was hatching new plots to kill him.

It was not the first such warning. U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies have tracked evidence for years of Iranian efforts to target ...Read more

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Low birth rate risks creating US housing glut over coming decade

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For the past decade, scarcity was the U.S. housing industry’s most powerful marketing tool. The less there was to buy, the greater the urgency to keep bidding, even as prices hit record highs.

Demand was supercharged by record-low pandemic-era mortgage rates that sparked bidding wars and sent prices soaring, crushing affordability. Recent ...Read more

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Alligator Alcatraz may be closed, but the legal fallout isn't over

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MIAMI — The chain-link cages under white industrial tents have been emptied. The guards dismissed. The immigrants transferred out.

But even though Alligator Alcatraz’s gates are closed, allegations of beatings, pepper-spraying, and injuries — including a broken wrist and a bloody eye — continue to haunt the remote Everglades runway ...Read more

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Florida wants more religion in schools. But here's where most people draw the line

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MIAMI — As Florida education leaders signal openness to expanding religious expression in public schools, a recent survey finds broad support for school prayer in public schools — but only if it is optional.

The survey, released by the Pew Research Center in April 2026, sheds light on how Americans feel about different aspects of religious ...Read more

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Trump administration targets state AI laws over ideology

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The Trump administration is continuing its pushback against state artificial intelligence laws that it views as ideologically biased, proposing a new Federal Trade Commission policy.

The proposed policy statement, which is open for public comment through July 31, would affect how the FTC regulates AI companies. The agency said it’s meant to ...Read more

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Trump vows to decimate Iran if it carries out assassination plot

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump warned Iran that the U.S. military would “completely decimate and destroy all areas” of the Islamic Republic if its leaders attempted or carried out his assassination.

The president’s message, in a Truth Social post late Friday, came at the end of a week in which clashes between Iran and the U.S. ...Read more

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Gordie Howe bridge to open July 27, Canada says

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DETROIT — The Gordie Howe International Bridge will open to traffic July 27 under an agreement between Canada and Michigan and with the support of the U.S. government, Canadian officials said Friday.

The announcement came a few hours after Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers, an ally of President Donald Trump, said the bridge was ...Read more