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Local Efforts Are Essential For Tackling Growing Health Threat from Extreme Heat

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Tornadoes can tear down a home and hurricanes can flood entire towns. But when it comes to weather dangers, extreme heat is the great deceiver. It isn’t acute; it’s literally a matter of degrees. A 100-degree day looks pretty much like one that’s 85. The skies don’t darken in warning and the danger isn’t instantaneous, … Read more

Netflix addresses claim it sent celebrity chef legal threat over Meghan Markle criticism

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Trump’s threat to bomb Iran would spark retaliation, its supreme leader says

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday the U.S. would receive a strong blow if it acts on President Donald Trump’s threat to bomb Tehran unless it reaches a new nuclear deal with Washington. Trump reiterated his threat on Sunday that Iran would be bombed if it does not accept his offer for talks outlined in a letter sent to Iran’s leadership … Read more

As Conan O’Brien receives Mark Twain humor prize at the Kennedy Center, the joke is on Trump

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Conan O’Brien received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday night at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, drawing Sarah Silverman, Will Ferrell, David Letterman and Stephen Colbert to the center’s most high-profile event since President Trump staged a hostile takeover of the place in mid-February, firing board members and … Read more

Inside the DOGE Threat to Social Security

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When the claims representative, whom I’ll call Steven, sat down at his computer around 7:15 A.M. last week, he had already been awake for an hour and a half. The morning routine for him and his family is best described as “fend for yourself,” he said. That day, he waited for his older son to … Read more

Russia blasts ‘threat’ from France’s Emmanuel Macron as it mends fences with Washington

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Russia ruled out European proposals to send peacekeeping forces to Ukraine and said Thursday that French President Emmanuel Macron had threatened it by suggesting that Moscow was a grave menace to Europe. French President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised address to the nation Wednesday that he plans next week to hold a meeting of army chiefs from … Read more

Pope responding to medication, but doctors warn sepsis is a threat in pneumonia battle

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ROME — The Vatican carried on with its Holy Year celebrations without the pope Saturday, as Pope Francis battled pneumonia and a complex respiratory infection that doctors say remains touch-and-go and will keep him hospitalized for at least another week. Francis slept well overnight, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a brief early update Saturday. … Read more