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Wildfire Forces Tourists To Leave Yosemite National Park

9:14am July 25, 2018

by Bob Moffitt

Tourists have been ordered out of Yosemite Valley due to poor air quality from the nearby wildfire. Visitors will have to be out of hotels, campgrounds and visitor centers by noon.

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Pablo Villavicencio leans out of an SUV while talking to reporters after being released from the Hudson County Correctional Facility, on Tuesday.

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Judge Frees Immigrant Arrested While Delivering Pizza To Army Base

8:12am July 25, 2018

by Scott Neuman

Pablo Villavicencio was turned over to ICE on June 1 after a guard at Fort Hamilton declined to accept his identification card and ran a background check, discovering a pending 2010 deportation order.

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Potted Plants Disappear From Indiana Neighborhood Porches

7:29am July 25, 2018

Security camera footage showed a woman taking them. A resident tracked her down and called police. Cops say a search warrant turned up 165 plants and lawn decorations on her property.

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A Brazilian mother, who asked to be identified only as W.R., was reunified with with her 9-year-old son A.R. in Boston on July 16.

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Government Unable To Track Hundreds Of Parents It Separated From Their Children

11:24pm July 24, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

Officials said 1,012 parents and children separated at the border have already been reunited. But up to 463 parents may have been deported or have voluntarily left without their children.

President Donald Trump seen on a video screen as he speaks at the 119th Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention, Tuesday in Kansas City, Mo.

Trump Faces Friendly Crowd At VFW Convention

11:18pm July 24, 2018

by Quil Lawrence

President Trump received an ovation when he told the assembled veterans that remains of U.S. Korean War dead would soon be repatriated from North Korea.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and other USDA officials say the aid will be available in three forms; direct payments; government purchases for distribution to food banks; and development of new export markets.

Trump Administration Plans $12 Billion In Farm Aid To Offset Tariffs

7:07pm July 24, 2018

by Brian Naylor

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says the short-term assistance shows the president has the farmers' backs. GOP critics call it a bailout.

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Former Diplomat Discusses Importance Of North Korea's Nuclear Dismantlement Progress

6:50pm July 24, 2018

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Joel Wit of 38 North, and a former State Department negotiator with North Korea. He says satellite images suggest North Korea may be dismantling missile facilities.

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Trump Delivers Campaign-Style Speech At Veterans Of Foreign Wars Convention

6:50pm July 24, 2018

by Frank Morris

President Trump addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City, spending much of his time reviewing his achievements as president and criticizing his predecessor. The speech came the day after his Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Robert Wilkie, was confirmed by the Senate.

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'New York Daily News' Staff Cuts Are Reflective Of Hits To Local Journalism In The U.S.

6:50pm July 24, 2018

by David Folkenflik

The newsroom staff of the New York Daily News is being cut in half, serving a big blow to local watchdog journalism in New York. It is also reflective of local journalism being cut across America.

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'Unite The Right' Charlottesville Rally Organizer Seeking To Hold Anniversary Event

6:50pm July 24, 2018

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Daily Progress reporter Chris Suarez about how the organizer of last year's deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., is seeking a court order to allow an event marking its anniversary.

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