NASA maps a week of Canadian wildfire smoke across North America
A new NASA model visualization traces brown-carbon smoke from July 14 through July 20 as unhealthy air spread through major U.S. and Canadian cities.
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A new NASA model visualization traces brown-carbon smoke from July 14 through July 20 as unhealthy air spread through major U.S. and Canadian cities.

AAA’s daily national average reached $4.003 on July 20, extending a rapid rise tied to renewed instability around the Strait of Hormuz.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service will again decide protections species by species while giving greater weight to economic and national-security impacts in habitat decisions.
The Upper East Side outbreak has reached at least 67 confirmed cases as investigators continue testing and disinfecting building cooling towers.
A new legal opinion says the 2022 government-device ban no longer covers the restructured U.S. service, though individual agencies retain discretion over workplace use.
A final federal rule reduces the minimum soluble-solids level and allows a limited share of mandarin or tangerine juice in products sold as pasteurized orange juice.
Semiconductor shares recorded their worst week in more than a year, adding a new test for the AI-led market rally as oil prices stayed elevated.
June data show a third monthly decline in single-family starts and weaker permits, even as a surge in apartment projects lifted total housing starts.
A final Homeland Security rule replaces open-ended duration-of-status admissions with fixed terms and a new federal extension process beginning September 15.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio convened officials from more than 60 countries, opening a new international push that critics say rests on a disputed assessment of the threat.
The president used a national address to press for tighter voting rules and publish federal records, but presented no evidence that the 2020 result was changed.
Federal data show a fifth monthly gain in retail spending, although the increase was smaller than May's and the figures are not adjusted for inflation.
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