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Two months after a railroad bridge collapse sent carloads of hazardous oil products plunging into Montana’s Yellowstone River, the cleanup workers are gone and a mess remains. (Aug. 24) (AP Video/Matthew Brown)

Tropical Storm Franklin is unleashing heavy floods and landslides in the Dominican Republic after making landfall in the country’s southern region. (AP Video/Martin Adames Alcantara)

Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is presumed dead after a plane crash north of Moscow killed all 10 people on board. (Aug. 24)

A man facing eviction opened fire at officers from inside a Pittsburgh home Wednesday, shooting down police drones and prompting evacuations in the neighborhood, in a gunbattle and siege that lasted much of the day and ended with authorities saying he …

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Temperatures are soaring in the central U.S. The deadly late summer heat wave is a problem for schools, which struggle to keep buildings and buses cool. Some schools are having to cut the day short to beat the heat. (Aug. 23) (AP video: Nick Ingram)
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Associated Press democracy, race and ethnicity reporter Gary Fields talks about the 1963 March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. (Aug. 23) (AP production by Serkan Gurbuz)

The Associated Press has built a timeline and map of the Maui wildfire disaster after reviewing public documents and interviewing dozens of survivors, public officials and others. (Aug. 23)

A business jet en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg crashed Wednesday, killing all 10 people on board, Russian emergency officials said. Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list, officials said, but it wasn’t immediately clear if h…

Eight people who were trapped in a disabled cable car dangling high above a valley in Pakistan returned safely to the ground Tuesday after military commandos staged a daring and delicate rescue using helicopters and a makeshift chairlift. (Aug. 23) (AP…