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Your 5-minute read to start the day: Father’s death is 911 dispatcher’s final call; mystery bird illness update; death in Death Valley.

President Joe Biden addressed the nation about the tropical storm that has made landfall in New England.
Marsada Connors, 20, and Cole Young, 19, died while in a Honda Odyssey that got struck by a semi-trailer on I-70 in Illinois.
A Greenfield police officer has been hospitalized in critical condition after police said a man shot him at 27th and Becher streets.
Latest on Tropical Storm Henri: Landfall in Rhode Island, record rainfall in NYC, nursing homes evacuated amid Connecticut power outages.
The new complaint is about 50 percent longer than a similar one a federal judge threw out two months ago.
The final radio transmission in the 23-year career of Phillip Morris was a call to report the death of his father.
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Ghani Baradar returned to Kandahar, the southern Afghanistan city where the Taliban was founded.
President Joe Biden acknowledged the Taliban takeover unfolded more quickly than expected.
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The expected increase to the nation's food stamp program will give additional aid to all 42 million Americans on SNAP.
Matthew Lipinski was on vacation at Van's Beach in Leland, Michigan, when he helped a group of swimmers to shore.
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A Mayo Clinic study shows breakthrough coronavirus cases have been more common among people who have taken the Pfizer vaccine.
Business owners are limiting hours and offering new hire bonuses as the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause hiring struggles.
Illinois resident Dean Troutman’s yearlong walk for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital includes stops in 16 states.
Smoke could be seen for miles as Hazmat crews rushed to the explosion site in Davie.
The missing Lower Southampton woman's car was found a day earlier in a wooded area of Philadelphia, according to reports.
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