Jul 24 City residents in Northeast flee heat waves poised to break records By Jeff McMillan, Associated Press For city folks in the Northeast trying to escape a nearly weeklong hot spell that only threatened to intensify Sunday, places like Promised Land, Pa. offered respite. Continue reading
Jul 24 California's Oak Fire rages near Yosemite as thousands flee to safety By Associated Press Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency for Mariposa County due to the fire's effects. Evacuation orders were in place for over 6,000 people living across a several-mile span of the sparsely populated area in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Continue reading
Jul 24 Analysis: Biden's global promises hindered by political obstacles at home By Chris Megerian, Fatima Hussein, Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press Domestic politics have routinely been a roadblock when it comes to taking action on climate change, taxes and pandemic relief, undermining hopes that Biden could swiftly restore the U.S. to its unquestioned role as a global leader. Continue reading
Jul 24 Biden says he's feeling better after testing positive for COVID By Associated Press Administration officials have emphasized that his symptoms are mild because he has received four vaccine doses, and he started taking the antiviral drug Paxlovid after becoming infected. Continue reading
Jul 23 Watch 2:59 News Wrap: WHO calls monkeypox virus a global emergency In our news wrap Saturday, the WHO announced the monkeypox virus has now reached more than 70 countries and should be treated as a global emergency, two Americans were killed in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region while elsewhere Russia targeted Odesa,… Continue watching
Jul 23 Watch 8:50 Pete Buttigieg discusses travel woes, supply chains, infrastructure and LGBTQ rights By Geoff Bennett, Lorna Baldwin, Stephanie Kotuby, Winston Wilde Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is being asked to help solve several major challenges, from a supply chain crisis to a summer of flight delays and cancellations. The former presidential candidate and mayor of South Bend, Indiana, also has the task… Continue watching
Jul 23 Watch 5:53 How new technologies could accelerate the spread of conspiracy theories By Geoff Bennett, Andrew Corkery, Juliet Fuisz If tech-industry watchers are right we'll soon be living in the metaverse. Glimpses of the virtual environment are already among us, from virtual concerts and fashion to popular immersive games. While the virtual world could revolutionize work and play, it… Continue watching
Jul 23 'Explosive' Oak Fire outside Yosemite prompts mandatory evacuations By Associated Press The Oak Fire, which began Friday afternoon southwest of the park near Midpines in Mariposa County, grew to 10.2 square miles (26.5 square kilometers) by Saturday morning, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. Continue reading
Jul 23 Biden likely infected by BA.5 coronavirus variant, doctor says By Chris Megerian, Associated Press President Joe Biden likely contracted the highly contagious BA.5 variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly through the United States, and now has body aches and a sore throat since his positive test, according to an update from his doctor on… Continue reading
Jul 23 U.S. takes emergency action to save giant sequoias from wildfires By Brian Melley, Associated Press More than a century of aggressive fire suppression has left forests choked with dense vegetation, downed logs and millions of dead trees killed by bark beetles that have fanned raging infernos intensified by drought and exacerbated by climate change. Continue reading