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CAIRO (AP) — The WikiLeaks' global crusade to expose government secrets may also be causing collateral damage to the privacy of hundreds of innocent people. The Associated Press has found that the radical transparency group has published medical and other personal files belonging to scores of ordinary citizens, including information about sexual abuse victims, sick children and the mentally ill.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The long, hard slog of recovery is underway across south Louisiana, after a storm that began Aug. 12 dumped as much as 2 feet of rain in some areas over 48 hours, causing catastrophic flooding and causing the deaths of 13 people. President Barack Obama plans to survey the damage today when he travels to the area. The floods damaged more than 60,000 homes.
SAN SIMEON, Calif. (AP) — There are wildfires throughout the West that have destroyed homes and other buildings and forced people to evacuate. A wildfire in eastern Oregon has scorched nearly 50 square miles near the Idaho state line. In California, a destructive blaze covering more than 50 square miles is now mostly under control, but nearly 1,900 structures are threatened by a blaze in coastal San Luis Obispo and Monterey counties. And wildfires in Spokane, Washington have burned more than a dozen homes and forced evacuations.
DENVER (AP) — Kansas wants the roughly 18,000 state residents who haven't yet proven on paper that they're citizens to be kept from voting in the November election. Judges from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver will hear arguments today in the legal fight over how Kansas enforces its proof-of-citizenship requirement for voters who register at motor vehicle offices. States are supposed to register voters at the DMV using minimal information. But Kansas requires documents, like a birth certificate.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Neil Hanvey from Oldham, England, says he can't wait to see the latest "Star Wars" movie that's scheduled to come out Dec. 16. Hanvey, an illustrator, has a terminal illness, and his doctors say he has six to eight months to live. "Star Wars" actor Mark Hamill is among those backing a social media campaign to allow the 36-year-old Hanvey to be given a special screening of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" before he dies.
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