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When summer rolls around, many parents scramble to sign up their young kids for outdoor activities. But what do you do when extreme heat and wildfire smoke increasingly make the outdoors dangerous?
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The rate increase begins on August 3 and will be phased in over three years.
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A new type of wheat dotting Kansas fields has a special use: making pasta. Wheat acres have continuously declined in Kansas because traditional varieties are not making farmers much money these days. The noodle-focused wheat variety could change that.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with NBC health and medical news reporter Erika Edwards about the Trump Administration's cuts to federal agencies affects food safety measures.
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Maine Democrats have chosen their candidate to run against incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins. Troy Jackson, former state lawmaker, steps in where the scandal-plagued Graham Platner stepped out.
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This week the federal government is to release new rules for how much water each of the seven states that share the Colorado River will get. Effects on the ecosystem were largely left unconsidered.
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Wildfires in southern Europe continue to devastate rural areas. In Spain and France, several fires are burning out of control as hundreds of thousands of people are evacuated.
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An advisory council stacked with President Trump's allies voted to relax a 60-year-old historic preservation law, paving the way for federal projects that could harm historic sites across the country.
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- Carney calls August byelections for 3 ridings in Ontario, Quebec and B.C.
- 2 wildfires burning near Clinton, B.C., merge
- 2 Jewish-owned bakeries damaged in Toronto with one hit by gunfire: police
- Canada’s Ellie Black, Josh Liendo capture gold medals at Commonwealth Games
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