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- Death Valley will hit 130 degrees and could break world record amid blistering heat wave
- California’s Death Valley could reach a scorching 130 degrees next week and could come close to breaking its blistering world record as parts of the west, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic are under an intense heat wave forecast to intensify this weekend.
- The temperature at Death Valley National Park, which stretches between eastern California and Nevada, will reach highs around 130 degrees at Furnace Creek, Sunday night through Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service forecast.
- The sweltering heat could creep close to the world’s record highest temperature of 134 degrees marked at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley on July 10th, 1913, according to the National Weather Service office in Las Vegas.
- More than 50 cities from the Pacific Northwest to Arizona are expected to break record highs through Wednesday. Las Vegas may come close to breaking its all-time high of 117 degrees for five straight days next week from Sunday to Thursday.
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- In two 5-1 opinions, the court built on a 2019 decision in which it said the state’s Constitution protects abortion rights and that lawmakers seeking to restrict abortion must meet a high “strict scrutiny” test.
- The decisions cement Kansas’ role as a key abortion access point for patients across the broader region.
- The Kansas Supreme Court struck down two laws restricting abortion on Friday, affirming its prior interpretation that ending a pregnancy remains a constitutionally protected right in Kansas.
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- The drop boxes had been used in the battleground state for decades, but came under harsh scrutiny after claims of voter fraud in 2020 tied to the boxes
- In the Friday 4-3 ruling, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley wrote for the majority: “Our decision today does not force or require that any municipal clerks use drop boxes. It merely acknowledges what (state law) has always meant: that clerks may lawfully utilize secure drop boxes in an exercise of their statutorily-conferred discretion.”
- Republican claims of voter fraud in absentee ballots led to questioning the legitimacy of drop boxes
- The ruling arrives more than four months ahead of the contested 2024 presidential election
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- The Lebanese Hezbollah group said it launched over 200 rockets on Thursday at several military bases in Israel in retaliation for a strike that killed one of its senior commanders.
- The attack by the Iran-backed militant group was one of the largest in the months long conflict along the Lebanon-Israel border, with tensions escalating in recent weeks.
- Israel on Wednesday acknowledged that it had killed Mohammad Naameh Nasser, who headed one of Hezbollah’s three regional divisions in southern Lebanon, a day earlier.
- The Israeli military said “numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets” had entered its territory from Lebanon, many of which it said were intercepted. It confirmed the death of one soldier in the barrage.
- After Hezbollah’s attack, Israel struck various towns in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military said it hit Hezbollah’s “military structures” in the southern border towns of Ramyeh and Houla.
- Israeli jets also broke the sound barrier over the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and other areas in the country.
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- Eruptions at Italy’s Mount Etna and the smaller Stromboli volcano spewed hot ash and lava, raising alert levels on the Mediterranean island of Sicily and forcing a temporary shutdown of Catania Airport on Friday.
- Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, has seen intense activity in recent days, lighting up the sky near the city of Catania, while Stromboli off the northern Sicilian coast has spilled lava into the sea.
- Italy’s civil protection agency issued its top, red alert for Stromboli, warning the situation could deteriorate.
- The fire brigade said they had preemptively doubled the number of firefighters on the island.
- Around Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily, residents and authorities moved to clean up the city after streets and cars were left smothered in black volcanic ash, while the nearby airport was closed.
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- With much of the country in the grip of a heat wave that is set to break daily temperature records and make conditions dangerously hot during the holiday weekend, a large and uncontained blaze near Yosemite National Park has triggered evacuations and forced hospital patients to shelter in place.
- Evacuations ordered as new California wildfire ignites in scorching heat wave
- Meteorologists warned earlier this week that the holiday period could be hit by a dual threat of dangerously high heat and wildfires.
- Almost the entire town of Mariposa was under a mandatory evacuation order, with a large area to the east under an evacuation warning.
- In Northern California the much larger Thompson Fire continues to rage across Butte County, where it has burned through almost 3,800 acres and is 46% contained as of Friday morning.
- Many Fourth of July celebrations were canceled across California on Thursday as temperatures soared past the 100 degree mark, while places reached 110.
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- Hurricane Beryl is now turning its wrath on Mexico as a Category 2 storm, weakened but still dangerous after tearing through a series of Caribbean islands in recent days.
- The NHC is forecasting dangerous hurricane-force winds, a storm surge of four to six feet and damaging waves as the storm moves inland across the northern Yucatan Peninsula during the day. It says the region could see four to six inches of rain, with up to 10 inches in some areas.
- Beryl is expected to emerge over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico on Friday night and move toward northeastern Mexico and southern Texas by the end of the weekend, bringing heavy rainfall with it.
- Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to increase the readiness level of the state’s emergency operations center starting Friday morning.
- The United Nations is making $4 million in emergency relief funds available to Grenada, Jamaica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. A growing number of humanitarian aid groups are also mobilizing to help affected residents across the Caribbean.
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- Colorado health officials have confirmed that a resident has contracted the bacterial infection that causes the plague.
- The deadly medieval disease can cause patients to cough up blood and for their skin to blacken – hence its ominous nickname ‘black death’.
- It is not known how the individual became infected; however the bacteria can be passed via touching wild rodents and the bites of infected fleas.
- Symptoms of the plague can look similar to those of flu, including sudden fever, chills, severe head and muscle aches, nausea, and vomiting.
- It can also cause swollen lymph nodes called buboes, which can become inflamed, tender, and tissues like the hands and feet may turn black.
- If untreated, it can spread to the lungs and other organs, as well as the blood, with potentially fatal consequences
- The so-called Black Death may have been a death sentence in the 14th century, but advances in modern medicine, namely the advent of antibiotics as well as improved overall hygiene have made it curable.
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Here is My Plan to Celebrate America’s 1776 Founding:
- Day 1, I will convene a White House Task Force called “Salute to America 250”
They will coordinate with State & Local Governments to ensure not just one day of celebration, but an ENTIRE YEAR of festivities across the nation starting on Memorial Day 2025 & continuing to July 4, 2026.
- I will work with all 50 governors, Republican & Democrat to create “The Great American State Fair”, a unique One Year Exhibition featuring pavilions from all 50 states.
- The Great American State Fair will showcase the glory of every state in the Union, promote pride in our history & put forth innovative visions for Americas future.
- Trump plans to host “The Great American State Fair” at the Legendary Iowa State Fair Grounds.
- Together we will Build it & They will Come!
- We will host major sporting contests for High School Athletes — Patriot Games
- I will sign an Executive Order to bring back our National Garden of American Hero’s, commission artists in a statuary park honoring the greatest Americans of all time
- I will invite the leaders & citizens of nations around the world to visit the United States in honor of our 250th anniversary.
America’s tourist industry should get ready because we’re going to have a lot of people coming, it will be a record year.
- I will ask Americas great religious communities to pray for our nation & our people as we prepare for this momentous occasion!
“As we chart a course toward the next 250 years, let us rededicate ourselves as One Nation, Under GOD!
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- Fires rage in Galilee, Golan Heights after massive Hezbollah rocket and drone attack
- Fires are raging across numerous locations in the north after the massive Hezbollah rocket and drone attack.
- According to the Ynet news site, firefighters are tackling large blazes in at least 10 locations in the Galilee and Golan Heights after this morning’s assault by the Lebanon-based terror group.
- The news outlet says that at least one highway in the Golan Heights is blocked as a result of fires.
- Hezbollah launched some 200 rockets and 20 drones from Lebanon at northern Israel in the terror group’s major attack. It came a day after the IDF killed a senior Hezbollah commander.
- It says that some of the rockets and drones were shot down by air defense and fighter jets.
- In response, fighter jets struck several Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon’s Ramyeh and Houla, it adds.
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