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Kansas man sentenced to life in prison for 2017 shooting that targeted Indian men

By Joshua Barajas

The white man who fatally shot Indian national Srinivas Kuchibhotla and wounded two other men at a bar in northeastern Kansas last year targeted them "because of their race, color, and national origin," federal prosecutors said.

Where do young Americans stand on guns?

By Laura Santhanam

Safety is a growing concern among young Americans when it comes to guns.

Largest wildfire in California history still growing

By Associated Press

On Monday, twin fires in Northern California being treated as one became the largest wildfire in state history, destroying 443 square miles — nearly the size of the city of Los Angeles.

AP fact check: Wildfire, water experts rebut Trump’s claims

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press

For one thing, the wildfires are in the hills, far from the Pacific Ocean and from the man-made storage and distribution system that carries water from California's wetter north to the drier, more populated south.

Washington Democrats hope to win U.S. House seat for the first time

By Rachel La Corte, Associated Press

The Washington state primary contest getting the most attention in Tuesday's election is an open U.S. House seat Democrats hope to capture for the first time since the district east of Seattle was created in 1980.

Missouri deciding on right-to-work law that curbs union power

By David A. Lieb, Associated Press

If voters consent to Proposition A, Missouri would become the 28th state outlawing mandatory union fees in workplace contracts and the sixth Republican-led state to do so in the past six years.

5 important stories that deserve a closer look

By Joshua Barajas, Jessica Yarvin, Erica R. Hendry

A new law in France will give fines to street harassers, a county in Georgia will place a long rifle in every high school and middle school this fall and other stories we're reading now.

Climate change is making wildfires more extreme. Here’s how

High winds, high temperatures, pervasive drought. These extreme conditions are driving two enormous fires in California, and many more throughout the American West and much of Northern and Western Europe. William Brangham talks with Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University…

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How prepared is the U.S. to fend off cyber warfare? Better at offense than defense, author says

“We spent years worrying about the giant cyber-Pearl Harbor,” says David Sanger, author of “The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age.” But, he argues, that has blinded us to more subtle uses, in which we are…

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Pentagon restricts use of fitness trackers, other location-sharing apps

By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press

Concerns about exercise trackers and other electronic devices came to a head in January in the wake of revelations that an interactive, online map was pinpointing troop locations, bases and other sensitive areas around the world.