In Florida, Hurricane Idalia has left more than 200,000 people without power.
Hurricane Idalia, which hit the southeastern coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico, left about 200,000 people without electricity.
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NASA may be left without communication with its missions due to network congestion
NASA may lose contact with its scientific missions because of the increasing load on the Long Range Space Communications Network (DSN) and lack of money.
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The minimum wage for which people are willing to work in the U.S. has soared to nearly $80,000
A labor market survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showed an increase in the minimum desired salary in the U.S. to a record high of $78,645 per year.
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Witness in Trump documents case changed lawyers and then his testimony, prosecutors say
A witness in the criminal case against Donald Trump over the hoarding of classified documents retracted “prior false testimony” after switching lawyers last month and provided new information that implicated the former president, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
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State Department renews ban on use of US passports for travel to North Korea
The Biden administration is extending for another year a ban on the use of U.S. passports for travel to North Korea, the State Department said Tuesday.
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Biden says federal government will help Maui ‘for as long as it takes’ to recover from wildfire
President Joe Biden on Monday told survivors of Hawaii’s wildfires that the nation “grieves with you” and promised that the federal government will help “for as long as it takes” Maui to recover from damage caused by the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.
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As Tropical Storm Hilary shrinks, desert and mountain towns dig themselves out of the mud
rews worked to dig roads, buildings and care home residents out of the mud across a wide swath of Southwestern U.S. desert Monday, as the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years headed north, prompting flood watches and warnings in half a dozen states.
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The Bidens will travel to Maui to meet with wildfire survivors and first responders
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are traveling to Maui on Monday to comfort survivors of the devastating wildfires that ripped through the western part of the Hawaiian island earlier this month, as his administration responds to the devastation whose full scope is still unknown.
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Trump and his allies double down on election lies after indictments for trying to undo 2020 results
A federal indictment and one in Georgia charging Donald Trump with lying about the 2020 election to overturn President Joe Biden’s win have done nothing to slow the geyser of election falsehoods flowing from the former president and his supporters.
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Biden will visit Hawaii on Aug. 21
U.S. President Joe Biden and his wife on August 21 will visit the Hawaiian island of Maui, where fires killed more than 100 people.
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