More than 500,000 people in Oregon are under evacuation orders as wildfires continued to race through more than a dozen Western states Friday.
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About 600 wildfires have burned a million acres in California in a week. Lightning may soon set even more blazes.
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Chicago removes Christopher Columbus statues from parks after protests
Chicago city officials temporarily removed two statues of Christopher Columbus early Friday, a week after protesters and police clashed at one of the monuments
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John Lewis ‘Note to Self’: ‘One day, you’ll be elected to the Congress,’ Lewis tells younger self
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