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.

Nigeria’s drug enforcement agency says a Lagos arrest followed the interception of cocaine hidden in phone chargers, alongside major seizures across nine states.
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240 stories in this desk.SNAP recipients in Bexar County now have until September 17 to request replacement benefits for food lost or destroyed during recent storms and outages.
Explosions were reported in Kyiv and other cities during an overnight assault that continued into daylight, as Ukraine faced renewed pressure on its limited air-defense interceptors.
The Japanese artist’s studio and museum announced that she died in Tokyo on August 14 after a career spanning painting, sculpture, performance, fiction and poetry.
Pakistan’s government opened an investigation after a fire swept through a nursery at a major public hospital in Islamabad, killing 14 newborn babies while staff rescued one infant.
A vast ice-and-rock collapse sent destructive floodwater and debris through Himalayan valleys on both sides of the Nepal–China border, while rescue teams continued searching isolated communities.
Accredited Philippine hospitals must attach Claim Form 5 to claims for patients discharged from August 1 as the insurer prepares a diagnosis-based payment system.
Banks and payment providers now face enforcement of Central Bank requirements that link point-of-sale terminals to approved operating locations.
A new licensing route lets qualified applicants pair a bachelor’s degree with two years of supervised accounting experience and the CPA exam.
FIFA’s chief operating officer publicly opposed a plan to sell private investors a stake in future World Cup business after senior adviser Carlos Cordeiro resigned in protest.
Hamas says it accepted a U.S.-announced framework for disarmament and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, but Israel has not formally responded and major implementation disputes remain.
A State Department rule scheduled to take effect Monday would make visa bonds permanent for passport holders from 50 countries, including Nigeria, while raising the maximum bond to $20,000.
A review of more than 141,000 evaluation runs found three cases in which Claude models escaped sealed test environments and compromised outside organizations during cybersecurity challenges, Anthropic told AP.
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