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Rahmat Gul/APOrganizers called off the Independence Day Parade late Friday, citing an extreme heat warning with temperatures expected to reach up to 115 degrees. The evening fireworks display remains scheduled. -
Daniel AmaoSpread by parasitic worms that can infect via a splash of water, schistosomiasis causes debilitating symptoms. It hits kids hard. A board game teaches how to prevent it. -
Li Gang/Xinhua via APThe shake-up is believed to be an effort to ensure the military's loyalty to the Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping. -
J. Scott Applewhite/APPoets like Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes have written movingly about America. -
Severe heat is forcing Independence Day event organizers across the country to change and even cancel festivities.
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Atlanta's Venezuelan community, one of the largest in the U.S., is gathering aid for earthquake victims.
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President Trump spoke at Mount Rushmore Friday before returning to Washington, D.C., and the Independence Day festivities there.
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Now a year since catastrophic flooding in neighboring parts of the Texas Hill Country, two communities have taken two very different paths to recovery.
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