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MATHER, Calif. (AP) — More than 13,500 firefighters are working to contain a dozen large California wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to flee. The head of the California Office of Emergency services said Monday that after an extensive review of fire damage, Gov. Gavin Newsom has requested a

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A psychiatrist has recommended that a mentally ill Danish man accused of starting a Colorado wildfire that burned 149 homes should be forcibly medicated. The finding of the doctor at the state mental hospital was revealed Monday during a court hearing for Jesper Joergensen. It could pave

ISABELLA, Minn. (AP) — Authorities have ordered more evacuations near a quickly spreading wildfire that’s one of several burning in northeastern Minnesota. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office says Monday’s evacuations were happening near Grouse Lake and Mitewan Lake because of the growing Greenwood Lake fire, about 15 miles southwest of the town of Isabella in

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The delivery of a report on the 2020 vote count to Arizona state Senate Republicans has been delayed yet again. The Senate GOP leader says the Donald Trump supporter hired to lead the effort and several others involved have contracted COVID-19 “and are

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say global warming makes the kind of extreme rainfall that caused deadly flash flooding in western Europe last month more likely. The floods killed at least 220 people and caused billions of dollars in damage in Germany and Belgium. A study released Tuesday by the World

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A rural Tennessee community was pummeled with up to 17 inches (43 centimeters) of rain in less than 24 hours over the weekend, shattering the state record for one-day rainfall by more than 3 inches and leading to quick-rushing floods that killed at least 22 people

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — The board that oversees a park near Atlanta have voted for a new logo that excludes the park’s giant mountainside carving of Confederate leaders. It’s another change by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association to address criticism of the park’s Confederate legacy. The previous logo included a picture of the carving

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — Drone pilots, beware. Authorities at one of the nation’s top nuclear weapons laboratories issued a warning Monday that airspace over Los Alamos National Laboratory is off limits. As the birthplace of the atomic bomb, the lab has reported that recent unauthorized drone flights have been detected in restricted airspace in

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former football great Herschel Walker has registered to vote in Georgia, a possible prelude to him running for U.S. Senate in 2022. Electronic voter registration records show Walker registered Tuesday at an Atlanta house owned by his wife, Julie Blanchard. Former President Donald Trump has been urging

By ACACIA CORONADO Report for America/Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are bringing back their voting bill with no changes as some Democrats returned to the Capitol for the first time since ending their holdout. It was clear during a House hearing Monday that the bill is on track to become law after

SALIDA, Colo. (AP) — Investigators say an unused .22-caliber round was found next to the bed of a Colorado woman who disappeared last year and whose husband is charged with killing her. Testimony during a court hearing Monday for the husband, Barry Morphew, also revealed that a tranquilizer gun and accessories were found in the

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The speedy Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has revived alarms about a resurgent al-Qaida and new terrorism threats against the U.S.  The group’s danger to the United States had been eclipsed in the past two decades by other threats, but experts are concerned that al-Qaida could again be

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A U.N. official says a boat crowded with dozens of migrants capsized off Libya and at least 17 people are presumed dead. The accident happened Sunday night off the western town of Zuwara. The U.N. official says there were around 70 migrants on board the rubber boat

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As opera houses around the country warily resume indoor performances, two of the biggest are ushering in new leadership — along with a heightened commitment to building new audiences. In San Francisco, Korean-born Eun Sun Kim becomes the company’s first female music director and first Asian.

KING GEORGE, Va. (AP) — Dozens of headstones from a historic African American cemetery in the nation’s capital that were used as erosion control along a Virginia shoreline are being relocated to a Maryland memorial garden. Officials marked the transfer of the first 55 headstones to Maryland on Monday. They’ll be part of a memorial

By TATIANA POLLASTRI and MAURICIO SAVARESE FRANCO DA ROCHA, Brazil (AP) — A fire blamed by Brazilian authorities on an illegal candle balloon is burning for a second day at the Juquery state park outside Sao Paulo. Officials in the city of Franco da Rocha said Monday that more than 100 firefighters are trying to

By COLLIN BINKLEY, GEOFF MULVIHILL, CAMILLE FASSETT and LARRY FENN Associated Press The Biden administration says the historic amount of federal pandemic aid flowing to the nation’s K-12 schools presents a moment for reimagining all aspects of American education. But there are no guarantees that’s going to happen, in large part because the government has

By COLLIN BINKLEY, GEOFF MULVIHILL, CAMILLE FASSETT and LARRY FENN Associated Press As the federal government releases historic sums of pandemic aid to the nation’s schools, it’s urging them to dream big, to invest in seismic changes that will benefit students for generations to come. But many districts say they have more urgent problems to

By CHARLENE PELE Associated Press BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) — For more than seven decades, Martin Adler treasured a black-and-white photo of himself as a young American soldier with a broad smile with three impeccably dressed Italian children he is credited with saving as the Nazis retreated northward in 1944. The 97-year-old World War II veteran

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Another accuser has taken the witness stand on Monday at R. Kelly’s sex-trafficking trial. She testified on Monday that the R&B superstar sexually abused her on his tour bus and in hotel rooms when she was still a high school student and an aspiring singer. Last