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Authorities say embers from a smoldering scrap wood fire outside a home and a sparking power line separately caused a Colorado wildfire fanned by high winds that destroyed nearly 1,100 homes and left two people dead. (June 8) (AP video: Brittany Peters…
Here’s the latest for Thursday, June 8: Smoke to linger over US and Canada at least through weekend; Drone footage shows Ukrainian dam damage; British Prime Minister at the White House; Vicious knife attack on children in France.
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With weather systems expected to barely budge, the smoky blanket billowing from wildfires in Nova Scotia and sending plumes of fine particulate matter as far away as North Carolina and northern Europe should persist into Thursday and possibly the weeke…
Pope Francis has spent a peaceful night in the hospital after undergoing a successful three-hour operation to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair an abdominal hernia. (AP Video: Paolo Santalucia)
Here’s the latest for Thursday, June 8th: Smoky haze in eastern U.S. could last through weekend; Ukraine rushes drinking water to residents after dam break; Former VP Mike Pence running for president; Volcano erupting in Hawaii.
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U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attended a Washington Nationals baseball game during his visit to the American capital on Wednesday. (8 June 2023)
Surfers from across Brazil gathered to surf the “Pororoca” tidal bore at the mouth of Amazon River in Pará state. (June 8) (AP video shot by Lucas Dumphreys)
United Launch Alliance on Wednesday tested its new Vulcan rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The next-generation, methane-fueled rocket will replace the company’s Atlas and Delta rockets, which are being retired. (June 7)
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday said air quality is deteriorating across the five boroughs due to smoke from wildfires in Canada. (June 7)
Norman Hill, now 90, started in the civil rights movement with the NAACP in Chicago but became part of the Congress of Racial Equality in the early 1960s working on its Route 40 Project. He later joined the AFL-CIO, wanting to switch his focus to polit…