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Rescuers use a dinghy boat to evacuate villagers trapped by floodwaters in Jingtang village, Zixing city, in southern China's Hunan province, on July 28, 2024. (Chinatopix via AP, File)

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Rain-related disasters have killed more than 250 in a deadly week across Asia
By KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press
Thu,08/01/24-11:16PM , 111 Reads
In India and China, torrential rains have killed more than 250 people in the past week. Three others died in Pakistan. Widespread flooding has been reported in North Korea near the border with China with no word on whether anyone died.
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Total Refrigeration service tech Michael Villa works on an air conditioning unit as temperatures are expected to hit 117-degrees Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in Phoenix. Most of the Maricopa County's 645 heat-related deaths last year were outdoors, but 156 people died in their homes. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Heat deaths of people without air conditioning, often in mobile homes, underscore energy inequity
By ANITA SNOW - Associated Press
Thu,08/01/24-11:13PM , 105 Reads
PHOENIX (AP) — Mexican farm worker Avelino Vazquez Navarro didn't have air conditioning in the motor home where he died last month in Washington state as temperatures surged into the triple digits.
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AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thu,08/01/24-11:00PM , 44 Reads
Harris has secured enough Democratic delegate votes to become their party's nominee, chair says

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has secured enough votes from delegates to become her party’s nominee for president, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison said Friday.
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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump pumps his fists after speaking at a campaign rally, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Trump is making his 2024 campaign about Harris' race, whether Republicans want him to or not
By STEVE PEOPLES AND MATT BROWN - Associated Press
Thu,08/01/24-6:18PM , 65 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has found tremendous success from the very first moment he stepped onto the presidential stage by stoking racial animus.
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