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The highest air temperature ever recorded on the planet was the 134 degrees registered there in 1913. Forecasters say the heat wave baking the Southwest could push the temperature near that point in the valley this weekend.

Prices shot up 9.1% in June over the same time last year. That's even higher than what was expected and makes for a 40-year record.

Monday's special election to fill George Santos' congressional seat on Long Island has become a test of what messaging and tactics will win in the suburbs nationwide.

Victor Wembanyama is seen as a lock for the NBA's San Antonio Spurs to select in the draft. He hopes to reproduce the championship success of other French players, like Tony Parker.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with New York City's comptroller, Brad Lander, about what he says is a failed policy to deal with homeless encampments by the city.

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Harry Litman, a law professor and former DOJ official, about the upcoming hearings from the committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Analysts believe these purges aim to reform the military and ensure loyalty to Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Another commission member, Liu Zhenli, is also under investigation.

An Oklahoma-based film is up for several awards at a film festival celebrating Native Americans."The Cherokee Word for Water" is one of several films…

U.S. forces in Iraq capture a senior biological weapons scientist, known as "Mrs. Anthrax" and the only woman on the U.S. military list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis. A U.S.-trained microbiologist, Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash is believed to have played a key role in rebuilding Iraq's biological weapons program after the 1991 Gulf War. Hear NPR's Tom Gjelten.

Contestants gather in England for the Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling to chase a big wheel of cheese down a steep hill. Canadian Delaney Irving regained conscious to find out she won the woman's race.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would be nominating senior White House aide Lindsey Halligan to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the Virginia office that was thrown into turmoil when its U.S. attorney was pushed out Friday.

Gov. Mary Fallin says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved public assistance for 16 counties hit by May storms that brought tornadoes and…