NASA maps a week of Canadian wildfire smoke across North America
A new NASA model visualization traces brown-carbon smoke from July 14 through July 20 as unhealthy air spread through major U.S. and Canadian cities.
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A new NASA model visualization traces brown-carbon smoke from July 14 through July 20 as unhealthy air spread through major U.S. and Canadian cities.

Daily card payments averaged about 3.8 trillion won in the first half of 2026, with mobile and other cardless transactions continuing to gain ground.
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Indonesian rescuers continued searching for people missing from the KM Virgo Transport 8 after authorities rescued dozens of passengers and crew.
Nigeria’s drug enforcement agency says it dismantled an industrial-scale methamphetamine laboratory and arrested a Mexican national accused of helping operate it.
The Texas secretary of state says its voter-roll review produced 33 cases for possible prosecution, while emphasizing that each referral still requires investigation and due process.
A localized pause in fighting is allowing technicians to repair external power infrastructure serving the Russian-occupied nuclear plant.
A localized pause in fighting is allowing technicians to repair external power infrastructure serving the Russian-occupied nuclear plant.
The court acquitted a man in a counterfeit-card case, ruling that agents could not use cards seized under a warrant limited to illegal drugs.
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