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A firefighter aircraft drops water in a wildfire in Portugal on Saturday.

World News

Parts of the U.S. and Europe are bracing for some of their hottest temperatures yet

4:54pm July 17, 2022

by Shauneen Miranda

Parts of the Great Plains are forecast to hit record-breaking temperatures this week, while in Europe, extreme heat has fueled wildfires and contributed to hundreds of deaths in recent days.

The view from Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The mountain is the tallest peak in the park and sits on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. It's sacred to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who hope to see the name of the mou

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Cherokee tribe supports renaming Clingmans Dome in Smoky Mountains National Park

4:50pm July 17, 2022

by Dustin Jones

The Cherokee Indians referred to the mountain as Kuwahi for hundreds of years, long before it was dubbed Clingmans Dome in 1859.

In this photo from surveillance video provided by the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District via the Austin American-Statesman, authorities respond to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022.

National

Nearly 400 officers were in Uvalde before the gunman was killed, a new report finds

3:39pm July 17, 2022

by The Associated Press

The scathing new report by lawmakers in Texas says "systemic failures" created a chaotic scene that lasted more than an hour before the gunman at Robb Elementary School was finally confronted.

Cameron Smith of Australia wins the British Open on a one-shot margin. It's his first major title.

Sports

Cameron Smith makes a comeback and wins the British Open on a one-shot margin

2:06pm July 17, 2022

by The Associated Press

The Australian shot 8-under 64 to overturn a four-shot deficit in the final round. It's his first major title.

Attorney Roy Cohn, left, confers with red-hunting Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wisc., during Senate hearings in 1954.

Through all Trump's legal wars and woes, one lawyer's influence still holds sway

11:07am July 17, 2022

by Ron Elving

Roy Cohn always told clients to fight all charges, countersue when sued and never concede. Trump has followed his formula for half a century, and it has come to matter a great deal to the nation.

Suzanne Devine Clark, an art teacher at Deerfield Beach Elementary School, adds to a memorial outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the one-year anniversary of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. The gunman goes on trial on Monday.

National

The Parkland school shooter faces the death penalty as his trial begins

9:48am July 17, 2022

by Emma Bowman

Opening statements begin on Monday. A jury faces two options to punish the person responsible for killing 17 people in 2018: life in prison or the death penalty.

Inna Kravchenko, 52, and her mother, Raïsa Kozlova, 75, moments after crossing by bike from Russian-occupied territory in the Kherson region to the Ukrainian-controlled village of Zelenodolsk. They were able to bring three bags of belongings but fear the

World News

Ukrainian villagers flee Russian-occupied Kherson on foot, bike and wheelchair

8:04am July 17, 2022

Ukraine lost territory to Russia in the southern Kherson region early in the war. Residents fleeing rural villages there describe their desperation under Russian military control.

Women in burkas sit outside a bakery in Kabul. Impoverished women from hilltop slums around Kabul have been flocking to bakeries in the city, silently waiting to see if someone will purchase bread for them.

Health & Safety

In Kabul, a new ritual: Hungry women wait for bread outside bakeries

7:26am July 17, 2022

Since the Taliban came to power, food insecurity has risen. Women in blue burqas sit in front of the city's upscale bakeries, silently waiting for charitable passersby to purchase bread for them.

Ukrainian soldiers ride a tank on a road, in Stupochky, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 10, 2022.

World News

Russia strikes south Ukraine city, presses attacks in east

6:49am July 17, 2022

by The Associated Press

Russian missiles hit industrial facilities at a strategic city in southern Ukraine Sunday as Moscow continued efforts to expand its gains in the country's east.

Debris of an Antonov cargo plane smolders in Palaiochori village in northern Greece, Sunday, July 17, 2022, after it reportedly crashed Saturday near the city of Kavala.

World News

Experts to comb site of plane crash in northern Greece

6:26am July 17, 2022

by The Associated Press

Experts were poised to investigate the site of a plane crash in northern Greece Sunday to determine whether any dangerous chemicals or explosive cargo remains.