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Following the Dixie Fire, a scorched Jeep rests in the Indian Falls community of Plumas County, Calif., on Monday, July 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Winds feed California's largest fire as blazes scorch West

It could be days before officials will be able to assess the damage California's largest wildfire has done to a small town
The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, early Tuesday, July 27, 2021, as U.S. Capitol Police watch the perimeter. Democrats are launching their investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. They're beginning with a focus on the law enforcement officers who were attacked and beaten as the rioters broke into the building. It's an effort to put a human face on the violence of the day. The police officers who are testifying Tuesday endured some of the worst of the brutality. The panel's first hearing comes as partisan tensions have only worsened since the insurrection. Many Republicans have played down or outright denied the violence that occurred and denounced the Democratic-led investigation as politically motivated. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

At first Jan. 6 hearing, police to detail violence, injuries

Democrats are launching their investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection
A fisherman walks along a dock on the St. Johns River as a coal-fired power plant stands in the background, in Palatka, Fla., Wednesday, April 14, 2021. After months in a prison cell, Warren Williams longed to fish the St. Johns again. He looked forward to spending days outdoors in his landscaping job, and to writing poems and music in his free time. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Inside a KKK murder plot: Grab him up, take him to the river

In 2015, three Ku Klux Klan members hatched a plot to murder a Black man who had been recently released from a state prison
A dark cloud of smoke rises above the chemical park in Leverkusen, Germany, Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Firefighters from the site fire department are on duty. (Mirko Wolf/dpa via AP)

1 person dead, 4 still missing in German chemical explosion

Company officials say a body has been recovered after an explosion at a German chemical plant
FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 25, 2020 file photo, Cardinal Angelo Becciu talks to journalists during press conference in Rome. A trial is slated to begin on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 within the Vatican City's imposing walls of 10 defendants, including once-powerful cardinal Becciu, in a case based on a sprawling probe into the allegedly criminal management of the Holy See's portfolio of assets, including donations by countless Catholics from the pews. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
Cardinal, 9 others on trial at Vatican in money scandals
A trial opened Tuesday within the Vatican City's imposing walls of 10 defendants, including a once-powerful cardinal, for roles in the allegedly criminal management of the Holy See's portfolio of assets
File - In this May 13, 2021, file photo, smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes on a building in Gaza City. Human Rights Watch on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, accused the Israeli military of carrying attacks that "apparently amount to war crimes" during an 11-day war against the Hamas militant group in May. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)
Human Rights Watch: Israeli war crimes apparent in Gaza war
Human Rights Watch has accused the Israeli military of carrying out attacks that 'apparently amount to war crimes' during an 11-day war against the Hamas militant group in May
FILE - In this March 27, 2019, file photo, Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, makes an opening statement on the fiscal year 2020 budget resolution, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Recently retired U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming died Monday, July 26, 2021. He was 77 years old. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Ex-US Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming dies after bicycle accident
Retired Sen. Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican known as a consensus-builder in an increasingly polarized Washington, has died
A member of volunteers crew mops up spot fires at Gorny Ulus area west of Yakutsk, Russia, Thursday, July 22, 2021. The hardest hit area is the Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia, in the far northeast of Russia, about 5,000 kilometers (3,200 miles) from Moscow. About 85% of all of Russia's fires are in the republic, and heavy smoke forced a temporary closure of the airport in the regional capital of Yakutsk, a city of about 280,000 people. (AP Photo/Ivan Nikiforov)
Volunteers pitch in to fight Russia's raging forest fires
Authorities say that forest fires this summer in Siberia and parts of far northeastern Russia cover an area so vast that over half of them aren't being fought at all
A health worker checks oxygen level for a COVID-19 patient upon his arrival at Rangsit train station in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Thai authorities began transporting some people who have tested positive with the coronavirus from Bangkok to their hometowns on Tuesday for isolation and treatment, to alleviate the burden on the capital's overwhelmed medical system. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Thailand sends COVID-19 patients to hometowns by train
Authorities in Thailand have began transporting some people who tested positive for the coronavirus from Bangkok to their hometowns for isolation and treatment to alleviate the burden on the capital's overwhelmed medical system
Then Deputy Prime Minister of Samoa Fiame Naomi Mata'afa speaks with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the Australian High Commissioner to Samoa Sue Langford as they arrive at Faleolo Airport in Apia, Samoa on Sept. 8, 2017. More than three months after winning an election which sparked a constitutional crisis, Samoa's first female prime minister was finally able to take office on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)
Samoa's 1st female PM takes office after constitution crisis
More than three months after winning an election which sparked a constitutional crisis, Samoa's first female prime minister was finally able to take office on Tuesday
The entrance of the Cuban Embassy is pictured, that vandalized last night's in Paris, Tuesday, July, 2021. French authorities are investigating a gasoline bomb attack that caused minor damage to the Cuban Embassy. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez blamed the United States for the attack. (AP Photo/Catherine Gaschka)
Paris police investigate gas bomb attack on Cuban Embassy
French authorities are investigating a gasoline bomb attack that caused minor damage to the Cuban Embassy in Paris
FILE - In this July 6, 2020, file photo, Tong Ying-kit arrives at a court in a police van in Hong Kong. Tong, the first person to be tried under Hong Kong's sweeping national security law was found guilty of secessionism and terrorism on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
Guilty verdict in first trial under Hong Kong security law
The first person to be tried under Hong Kong's sweeping national security law has been found guilty of secessionism and terrorism in a ruling condemned aby human rights activists
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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Student trustee Edith Sanchez speaks before President Joe Biden at McHenry County College on Wednesday, July 7, 2021 in Crystal Lake.
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Paul Morello and his 2-year-old son, Finn, have fun playing among the flags on display at Rotary Hill park in Naperville. The Naperville Salute family-friendly celebration was held at the park Saturday, July 3 and was centered around the appreciation for veterans, active military, first responders and their families.
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