The National Weather Service said the heat index in Clarksdale, Mississippi, hit 120 degrees.
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Teen climate change activist making zero-carbon trans-Atlantic journey
Greta Thunberg will leave later this week to make her 2-week voyage to New York to speak at a U.N. climate summit.
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California sues to stop Trump rollback of Obama-era restrictions on coal-burning power plants
The administration’s proposed plan eliminates the nationwide effort to reduce the energy sector’s carbon footprint.
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Monarchs caught up in rewrite of endangered species rule
One of the changes the Trump administration wants to make is to reserve the option to estimate and publicize the financial cost of saving a species in advance of any decision on whether to do so.
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‘Chrisley Knows Best’ stars charged with federal tax evasion
The indictment says reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley submitted fake bank and financial statements to financial institutions to get loans worth millions, ‘much of which they used for their own personal benefit.’
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CNN backs Chris Cuomo after caught-on-video confrontation
The news anchor was filmed threatening to push a man down the stairs after the man allegedly called him ‘Fredo.’
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Officials: Car bomb kills 2 U.N. staff outside mall in Libya
The blast wounded nine, including a 3-year-old child and another United Nations staffer.
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Trump: Kim wants to meet again, apologized for missile tests
The president tweeted details from the ‘beautiful’ letter he received from the North Korean leader and says Kim assured him that ‘testing would stop when the exercises end.’
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Amid protest, Hawaii astronomers lose observation time
Astronomers across 11 observatories on Hawaii’s tallest mountain have cancelled more than 2,000 hours of telescope viewing over the past four weeks because of protesters blocking the summit road.
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Spanish aid boat blocked by Italy rescues 39 more migrants
Malta offered to let the new passengers disembark, saying their boat was in the country’s designated search-and-rescue area, but the other 121 people were picked up in an area the country is not responsible for and therefore had to remain onboard.