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Los Angeles closed its school buildings and San Diego pushed the first day of school to Tuesday after Tropical Storm Hilary brought mudslides and flash floods to Southern California, the region's first tropical storm in 84 years. Meanwhile, the South Central U.S. was baking this weekend. Dallas and Jackson, Miss., broke their respective daily records with high temperatures of 109 and 104 degrees.

Palm Desert, Calif., was hardly that Sunday.

(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Nearly two weeks after wildfires devastated the town of Lahaina, Hawaii, crews have searched about 60% of the scorched areas but scores of people remain missing. Meanwhile, few of the 114 people found dead so far have been identified. President Joe Biden will visit Maui today to survey the damage and meet with survivors.

Former President Donald Trump will skip the first GOP presidential primary debate, set for Wednesday, and may forgo all of them. For months he has said there's little upside to debating rivals who poll so far below him. "The public knows who I am & what a successful Presidency I had," he wrote on Truth Social.

Invoking popular support after losing the popular vote twice is … quite a move.

A man fatally shot a woman in front of her clothing boutique Friday night after he disparaged the LGBTQ+ Pride Flag she flew outside the Southern California store. The unidentified shooter was killed by police in a confrontation sometime later. More Pride flags have been destroyed or stolen around the country as online hate groups organize "challenges'' to destroy them, according to a June USA Today investigation.

This pride flag was defaced outside a LGBTQ+ community center in Anchorage, Alaska.

(AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Spain won its first Women's World Cup over England 1-0, joining Germany as the only other country to have won the women's and men's titles. The English women were also fighting for their first World Cup and the country's first for either team since 1966. After the game, Olga Carmona, who scored the winning goal, learned that her father had died.

We need to start planning for when the glaciers are gone, according to a new study. It found that one-fourth to one-half or even more of them, not counting Antarctica or Greenland, will melt by 2100. That means preparing for more floods and finding alternative water sources for farms that rely on them to irrigate crops. 

The average U.S. family with school-age kids will spend $890 on back-to-school supplies, according to the National Retail Federation, but families can save some of that money. Shopping expert Trae Bodge recommends taking advantage of tax holidays in your state (and nearby ones) and the last-minute sales retailers are putting on to make sure they sell enough. And if you can convince your kid, buy used clothes and electronics.

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University athletic departments and collegiate sports conferences are paying millions of dollars for bet-tracking services to make sure that student-athletes, coaches and staff aren't gambling in violation of school and NCAA rules and state laws. Five years after the Supreme Court ruled that states could legalize sports betting, a survey says two-thirds of 18- to 22-year-olds living on a college campus said they had bet on sports. 

Blue Beetle, DC Comics' first superhero movie with a Latino lead, claimed the top spot from Barbie in its debut weekend at the box office. Life in plastic is still fantastic, however: A week from now, the Greta Gerwig-Margot Robbie film will surpass The Super Mario Bros. Movie as the highest-grossing movie of 2023.

Scientists have uncovered more about the roots of Oetzi the Iceman, one the oldest humans found mummified by a glacier. The new study determined that Oetzi, whose body was found in 1991 by hikers in the Italian Alps, was mostly descended from farmers in present-day Turkey and probably lived in an isolated group in the mountains. He was less hairy and pale than previously thought and had an increased risk of obesity and diabetes.

RIP Oetzi, your posture suggests you would have loved viral TikTok dances.

🎵 Do the iceman🕺

(Marco Samadelli, Gregor Staschitz/South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/EURAC via AP)

Today is the start of National Animal Foster Appreciation Week, put on by the ASPCA to raise awareness of how big of a difference you can make in a cat's or a dog's life by giving them a safe, stable, loving home until they're adopted. Many shelters are especially in need of people to foster kittens in the warm months, said the ASPCA's Gemma Smith, who shared how to learn more about fostering (or adopting) a cute little kitten like Churro!

Ten-week-old Churro is waiting for you.

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