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Flat Fire triggers evacuations in Central Oregon

Flat Fire triggers evacuations in Central Oregon

The Flat Fire on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office The Flat Fire continued to threaten communities in Deschutes and Jefferson counties over the weekend. The blaze started Thursday evening and had grown to more than 21,971 acres with 0% containment as of Sunday morning, threatening nearly 4,000 homes. About 10,000 people were under some level of evacuation …

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Sixth death tied to Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem

Sixth death tied to Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem

A sixth person has died in the Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in Central Harlem, the most deaths since a 2015 Bronx outbreak that claimed 16 lives, according to an update Thursday by the city health department. The new death, one more than reported on Wednesday, came as the number of those sickened by the disease also inched up, from 109 to …

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Out-of-state visitor contagious with measles visited multiple Central PA counties: DOH

Out-of-state visitor contagious with measles visited multiple Central PA counties: DOH

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHP) — The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) says people in at least three Central PA counties may have been exposed to an out-of-state visitor who was contagious with measles. The individual visited establishments in Adams, Clearfield, Lancaster, and York Counties, according to a press release from the department. They were in Pennsylvania between Aug. 4 and Aug. …

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Appeals court allows DHS to end protected status for migrants from Central America and Nepal

Appeals court allows DHS to end protected status for migrants from Central America and Nepal

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration and halted for now a lower court’s order that had kept in place temporary protections for 60,000 migrants from Central America and Nepal. This means that the Republican administration can move toward removing an estimated 7,000 people from Nepal whose Temporary Protected Status designations expired …

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Fed minutes reveal concern over ‘the effects of higher tariffs’ as central bank left rates unchanged

Fed minutes reveal concern over ‘the effects of higher tariffs’ as central bank left rates unchanged

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Federal Reserve officials said last month that the threat of higher inflation was a greater concern than the potential for job losses, leading the central bank to keep its key rate unchanged. According to the minutes of the July 29-30 meeting, released Wednesday, members of the Fed’s interest-rate setting committee “assessed that the effects of higher tariffs had …

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Trump Demands a Fed Governor Resign, Escalating Campaign to Remake Central Bank – The New York Times

Trump Demands a Fed Governor Resign, Escalating Campaign to Remake Central Bank  The New York Times Trump is pressuring yet another top Fed official to resign  CNN Trump demands Fed’s Cook resign after housing official calls for ‘mortgage fraud’ probe  CNBC Trump calls for resignation of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook  The Washington Post Trump housing regulator accuses Fed governor Cook of mortgage fraud  Axios …

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Fifth death in Central Harlem linked to Legionnaires’ disease

Fifth death in Central Harlem linked to Legionnaires’ disease

The Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem has been linked to a fifth death, the city health department said Monday, equaling the toll from an outbreak at a nursing home in 2022. William Fowler, a spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams, said the latest casualty was not a new death. Rather, it stemmed from investigators’ conclusively linking an earlier death to …

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