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.

Robert Howden became Texas’ 116th secretary of state on July 18, taking over the state office that oversees elections, business filings and official records.
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The University of Michigan's preliminary July index rose to a five-month high of 54.4, though most responses preceded renewed fighting with Iran and the latest rise in gasoline prices.
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.
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