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Patrick Brafford, a beach lifeguard manager, uses a tie down strap to help secure a compact track loader and a lifeguard tower to help pull it further away from the water in preparation of potential storm at Clearwater Beach on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Clearwater, Fla. (Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

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Same storm, different names: How Invest 97L could graduate to Hurricane Debby

By JEFF AMY, ISABELLA VOLMERT AND JULIE WALKER JEFF AMY, ISABELLA VOLMERT AND JULIE WALKER - Associated Press
Sat,08/03/24-1:22PM, 142 Reads
It's an area of low atmospheric pressure, thunderstorms and wind sloshing out of the Caribbean Sea across Cuba, into the Gulf of Mexico and toward Florida.
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Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is driven away on a motorbike at the end of a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)

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Opposition leader joins rally calling for Venezuela presidential election results to be overturned

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ - Associated Press
Sat,08/03/24-1:08PM, 137 Reads
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Thousands of people rallied in the streets of Venezuela's capital Saturday, waving the national flag and singing the national anthem in support of an opposition candidate they believe won the presidential election by a landslide.
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during a debate, Oct. 7, 2020, in Salt Lake City, left, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a debate, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. Trump said Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, that he's pulling out of a scheduled debate with his likely Democratic opponent, Vice President Harris, and instead has agreed to a date earlier in September on Fox News Channel, furthering the uncertainty that the two will face each other on stage ahead of the November election. (AP Photo)

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Trump says he'll skip an ABC debate with Harris in September and wants them to face off on Fox News

By MEG KINNARD MEG KINNARD - Associated Press
Sat,08/03/24-12:56PM, 228 Reads
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Ayman Fakhr al-Din holds a picture of his daughter Alma for a photo in her room at the town of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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Horror at deaths of 12 children unites Druze across borders. But Mideast's wars tear at their bonds

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB AND MELANIE LIDMAN KAREEM CHEHAYEB AND MELANIE LIDMAN - Associated Press
Sat,08/03/24-11:22AM, 118 Reads
FARDIS, Lebanon (AP) — Alma Ayman Fakhr al-Din, a lively 11-year-old who loved basketball and learning languages, was playing on a soccer field a week ago in Majdal Shams, a Druze town in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, when the roc
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