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The Associated Press has attained rare visuals of Jimmy Lai, the jailed publisher and prominent pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong.

Experts say a mishmash of ways more than 3,000 counties calculate heat deaths means we don’t really know how many people die in the U.S. each year because of high temperatures in an ever warming world. (August 13) (AP Video: Kendria LaFleur)
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Deadly wildfires that swept with alarming speed and strength through the Hawaiian island of Maui reduced hundreds of homes to ash, sending emergency workers scrambling Saturday to find temporary housing for those lucky enough to survive a conflagration…

Authorities say one person is dead, another was critically injured and several people are unaccounted for following a house explosion in western Pennsylvania that destroyed three structures and damaged at least a dozen others. (August 12)
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Here’s the latest: At least 80 people on the Hawaii island of Maui killed by wildfires; Long tailbacks as returning residents wait hours in traffic; GOP presidential candidates at the Iowa State Fair; World Elephant Day marked
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The Red Cross based in Wailuku provided aid and relief supplies for those affected by the wildfires in Maui. (August 12) (AP Video: Haven Daley)

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

0813 Today in History

A California judge accused of killing his wife texted his court staff to say he had shot her, prosecutors said Friday as he was charged with murder.

The child’s death is the first Texas has announced after Gov. Greg Abbott started busing thousands of migrants to cities including Chicago.