Urban heat islands become dangerous when temperatures rise.
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Some residents could have new internet service by February 2025.
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City leaders do not have a plan or timeline for voting to formally adopt the statement.
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Five families sued the school division over a policy they say violates students’ rights.
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Latinos are the nation’s second fastest-growing bloc, with 36 million eligible voters.
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Tainted deli meat caused 10 deaths, 61 illnesses and the closing of a Southside Virginia plant.
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Minnesota Public Radio's Clay Masters reports on targeted state lawmaker shootings.
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A former Minnesota House speaker and her husband were killed and a state senator and his wife were wounded in targeted shootings Saturday at their homes near Minneapolis, officials said.
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Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, where a white supremacist killed nine worshippers a decade ago.
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Organizers are accusing the president of putting on the parade as a show of dominance. The protests were peaceful, but came against the backdrop of assassinations in Minnesota.
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The official focus of the parade was the commemoration of the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary. But critics say the president is using the military show of force to push a political agenda.
Arts & Culture
- Shooting fireworks over a historic— and flammable — city takes planning
- Geologists uncover new evidence from ancient asteroid that hit the Chesapeake Bay
- Recent Hanover museum exhibit examines Brown Grove's history, legacy
- On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad