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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Officials say another night of wet weather has helped crews make more progress against a massive wildfire in Northern California. A state fire spokesman says the King Fire east of Sacramento is now 78 percent contained after temperatures cooled and nearly half an inch of rain fell. The blaze has burned more than 150 square miles of a heavily forested region east of Sacramento, destroying about a dozen homes. About 300 structures are still threatened.
CHICAGO (AP) — The effects of yesterday's fire at a suburban Chicago flight control center are still being felt. More than 600 flights have been canceled today at Chicago's two international airports, but that's down from more than 2,000 cancellations yesterday. Southwest Airlines, the dominant carrier at Midway airport, says it intends to resume a full flight schedule today after canceling all its flights yesterday. Authorities say the fire was deliberately set by a contract employee at the control center in Aurora.
BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-led coalition warplanes have fired on Islamic State fighters attacking a Syrian town near the Turkish border for the first time, as well as positions in the country's east. That's according to activists and a Kurdish official. Activists also say some grain silos have been hit in the airstrikes, but a spokesman for U.S. Central Command says he can't confirm that.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Most of the nearly 60,000 Central American children who have arrived on the U.S. border in the last year still don't have lawyers to represent them in immigration court. Efforts are underway across the country to train attorneys at private law firms on immigration law and how to work with the children, many of whom are fleeing violence.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — India's prime minister is proposing a new addition to the long list of annual U.N. observances: World Yoga Day. In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi extolled the therapeutic powers of yoga and said it could help tackle global problems. The U.N. already has 118 awareness-raising days of observance. Today is one of them: World Tourism Day.
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