NASA maps a week of Canadian wildfire smoke across North America
A new NASA model visualization traces brown-carbon smoke from July 14 through July 20 as unhealthy air spread through major U.S. and Canadian cities.
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A new NASA model visualization traces brown-carbon smoke from July 14 through July 20 as unhealthy air spread through major U.S. and Canadian cities.

A federal jury found a pharmacy owner guilty of conspiring to distribute controlled substances and five unlawful-distribution counts involving more than 335,000 high-dose oxycodone pills.
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251 stories in this desk.The Bureau of Labor Statistics released annual 2025 state estimates and revised monthly data, offering a more detailed view of where employers were hiring and workers were leaving jobs.

A commercially operated spacecraft carrying a government-developed robotic system has launched on a mission designed to inspect, reposition and extend the lives of satellites in high orbit.

CMS asked state Medicaid directors to consider restricting coverage of mercury-containing fillings or encouraging alternatives, but the notice is guidance rather than a nationwide ban.

Microwave measurements from two close flybys found temperatures rising sharply just below Io’s surface, giving scientists a new view of how heat moves through the solar system’s most volcanic world.
The White House says more than 15 agencies will contribute funding, data and research facilities to 278 projects spanning health, energy, infrastructure and space science.
Mission leaders and four crew members will hold public briefings on August 3 ahead of a launch to the International Space Station targeted for no earlier than mid-September.
Full-time wage and salary workers earned a median $1,251 per week, up 4.6 percent from a year earlier compared with a 3.9 percent increase in consumer prices.

A new NASA model visualization traces brown-carbon smoke from July 14 through July 20 as unhealthy air spread through major U.S. and Canadian cities.
Justice Department personnel observed primary-election voting procedures in Maricopa, Apache and Pima counties with credentials issued by local election officials.
The proposed resolution addresses federal contract-support costs claimed by the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium for tribally administered health programs.

NASA and India's space agency have opened access to calibrated NISAR radar products designed to track changes in land, ice, forests and natural hazards.
Federal officials paused approximately $867.5 million for California and $199 million for Minnesota while the states provide documentation for claims under review.
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