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Maui wildfire deadliest in past US century

Authorities warned that the effort to find and identify the dead in the devastating Maui wildfires was still in its early stages

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Sun Aug 13 2023

 
In an aerial view, two men ride a scooter s by businesses that were destroyed by a wildfire on August 11, 2023 in Lahaina, Hawaii. Dozens of people were killed and thousands were displaced after a wind-driven wildfire devastated the town of Lahaina on Tuesday. Crews are continuing to search for missing people.

Authorities warned that the effort to find and identify the dead in the devastating Maui wildfires was still in its early stages

 
 

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Gusting winds, low humidity, lack of rainfall and dry vegetation lead to destructive fires in Hawaii.
 

How winds and weather helped create devastating wildfires in Hawaii

 

A combination of weather-related factors led to one of the most deadly and destructive wildfires in Hawaii's history.

Aug 7, 2023; Buffalo, NY, USA Mohammad Shams, 14, is pictured at Broderick Park in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, August 7, 2023. Shams arrived alone to the U.S. in November 2021, just two months after the fall of Kabul. He didn't speak English and had no other relatives with him. At the two-year anniversary of the U.S.'s hasty retreat from Afghanistan, authorities continue to struggle with what to do with the remaining Afghan youths in U.S. custody.
 

Two years after fall of Kabul, hundreds of kids still without parents

 

Afghan children who fled Kabul ended up in custody much like Central American migrants separated from their parents. Two years later, many still wait.

GOP presidential candidate Mike Pence speaks at the Des Moines Register political soapbox during the Iowa State Fair, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023.
 

Pence: Trump never told him 'he knew he had lost' 2020 election

 

"There was no point in time that the president ever told me that he knew he had lost," Pence told the Des Moines Register in a one on one interview.

Excessive heat victims' stories reveal tragic toll of injury, death
 

Heat kills and maims. Here are some of its victims.

 

Heat waves can kill and injure people of all ages — the healthy as well as vulnerable. Here are six stories of lives cut short or forever changed.

The Harriott, a riverboat, remains docked on August 8, 2023, on the Alabama riverfront in downtown Montgomery, Alabama.
 

1 more person charged in Ala. riverboat brawl; co-captain says he 'held on for dear life'

 

Another man has been charged in an Aug. 5 brawl on the riverfront in Montgomery, Alabama. Police say the incident is not a hate crime.

A titmouse arrives at the Bird Buddy feeder in the backyard of Gastonia City attorney Ash Smith Friday morning, Jan. 13, 2023.
 

You may want to reassess that bird feeder purchased in lockdown, study says

 

A new study shows that bird-feeding dramatically increased near the beginning of lockdowns. But is it actually safe to feed wild birds?

Dwyane Wade, right, calls his father Dwyane Wade Sr. onto the stage at his induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame at Symphony Hall in Springfield, Massachusetts on Aug. 12, 2023.
 

'We in the Hall of Fame, dawg': Inspiring 2023 class takes its place

 

The 2023 Basketball Hall of Fame ceremony had a little bit of everything, capped by Dwyane Wade's heart-tugging (and hilarious) finish.

(FILES) US President Joe Biden, with son Hunter Biden, arrives at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, New York, on February 4, 2023. The US Justice Department on Friday escalated its investigation into President Joe Biden's son Hunter, naming a special counsel amid allegations he engaged in illicit business deals overseas.    Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Delaware federal prosecutor David Weiss, who recently investigated Hunter Biden on tax and gun charges in a case that remains open. Weiss, who opened his probe in 2019, recently revealed that he was investigating Biden along other lines, and Garland said Weiss had requested special counsel status to be able to pursue his probe more widely. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) ORIG FILE ID: AFP_33R26AV.jpg
 

Hunter Biden drama poised to shadow Joe Biden's 2024 campaign

 

After the appointment of a special counsel, the legal drama over Hunter Biden is poised to hang over the entirety of Joe Biden's 2024 reelection bid.

News out of Kansas
 

Police raid Kansas newspaper office, seizing computers, phones

 

Police raided the Marion County Record in Kansas after local business owner Kari Newell accused the newspaper of illegally getting her personal data.

 

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