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As France tames wildfire and lets 84,000 evacuees go home, blazes flare across Europe

By MARK CARLSON, ALEX TURNBULL and JOHN LEICESTER
Jul 30, 2026 5:00 pm - France gave the go-ahead Thursday for 84,000 evacuees forced out by a monster wildfire to return home, the strongest sign yet that firefighters are turning the corner in a grueling battle against flames that have burned an area four times the size of Paris.
Colin Gray, who gave his son the gun used in Georgia school shooting, is sentenced to 15 years

By KATE BRUMBACK
Jul 30, 2026 4:55 pm - A man who gave his son the gun he used to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Georgia was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison.
Trump says he may pull Blanche’s attorney general nomination until dissenting senators leave office

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Jul 30, 2026 10:59 am - President Donald Trump said Thursday he may pull acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination for the full-time post to avoid making concessions to a few Senate Republicans who want him to scale back protections for his family business and potential payouts for his allies that the president negotiated with his own Department of Justice.
Congo says the death toll in fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has passed 1,500

By PROSPER HERI NGORORA and MARK BANCHEREAU
Jul 30, 2026 7:41 am - The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has killed more than 1,500 people in eastern Congo, official data released on Thursday showed, marking a 50% increase in around a week that shows the emergency continuing to outpace response efforts.
Hope dwindles for rescue in southwestern Japan quake as death toll climbs to 25

By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Jul 30, 2026 7:38 am - Rural communities in southwestern Japan were struggling to get their lives back to normal Thursday, two days after a powerful earthquake set off an explosion at a mall, toppled a factory chimney and flattened homes, killing at least 25 people.
Russian strikes across Ukraine kill 9 and NATO scrambles jets after a missile falls in Poland

By HANNA ARHIROVA
Jul 30, 2026 7:30 am - A Russian ballistic missile and drone barrage across Ukraine overnight killed at least eight civilians, including children, and injured more than 50 others, officials said Thursday, and NATO scrambled its warplanes after one of the missiles crossed the country's western border into Poland.
Urban League report says Trump administration is harming Black Americans’ chances at American Dream

By MATT BROWN
Jul 30, 2026 7:26 am - The American Dream may not be dead for many Black Americans, but it is further away than at any point since the Civil Rights Movement, warns a report by the National Urban League.
Southern Europe burns as 3 firefighters die, France battles blaze 4 times the size of Paris

By THOMAS ADAMSON, MARK CARLSON and EMMA DA SILVA
Jul 29, 2026 9:03 pm - An uncontained wildfire four times the size of Paris threatened to surge again in southwest France on Wednesday — as three firefighters died in Greece and crews across southern Europe confronted a punishing mix of heat, drought and strong winds.
Rotten fish sauce that has long stunk up a small Canadian town is finally being removed

By JIM MORRIS
Jul 29, 2026 7:14 pm - VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The townspeople of St. Mary's can breathe a sigh of relief. They are finally getting rid of the foul smell of rotten fish that has for years...
Police: Bullets that killed 2 bystanders at Seattle festival weren’t from teen shooter’s gun

By GENE JOHNSON and HALLIE GOLDEN
Jul 29, 2026 7:05 pm - The bullets that killed two bystanders during a shootout at a crowded Seattle food festival last weekend do not appear to have come from the gun that a 15-year-old arrested at the scene was firing, police said in court documents filed Wednesday.

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