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No Mega Millions winner, jackpot tops $1B

A massive Mega Millions lottery jackpot ballooned to $1.02 billion after no one matched all six numbers Tuesday night and won the top prize.

 
Emergency declared as evacuations ordered in fire near Yosemite

Gov. Gavin Newsom decalred a state of emergency Saturday as a fast-moving brush fire near Yosemite National Park exploded in size, prompting evacuation orders for thousands.

 
Jan. 6 panel, testimony details Trump’s ‘dereliction of duty’

“President Trump didn’t fail to act,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a fellow Republican but frequent Trump critic who flew fighter jets in Iraq and Afghanistan. “He chose not to act.”

 
President Biden tests positive for COVID-19

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president has begun taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug designed to reduce the severity of the disease.

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US inflation reached new 40-year high in June

Surging prices for gas, food and rent catapulted U.S. inflation to a new four-decade peak in June.

 
Police strolled in hallway during Uvalde massacre, video shows

Surveillance footage captured the gunman in the Uvalde school shooting enter the building with a AR-15 style rifle and later shows officers in body armor milling in the hallway outside the fourth-grade classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were killed.

 
Trump attempted to contact Jan. 6 witness, Cheney says

The vice chair of the House Jan. 6 committee said Donald Trump has attempted to contact a witness who was talking to the panel investigating the attack on the Capitol.

 
Yosemite wildfire threatens 500-tree grove of giant sequoias

More than 500 sequoias were threatened in the Mariposa Grove but as of Saturday afternoon there were no reports of severe damage to any named trees, including the 3,000-year-old Grizzly Giant.

 
Man arrested in Illinois shooting that killed 6

Highland Park’s police chief said the 22-year-old man identified as a person of interest in the shooting that killed at least six people and wounded at least 30 has been taken into custody.