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Today β€” 1 July 2024Technology

Parties and protests mark the culmination of LGBTQ Pride Month in NYC, San Francisco and beyond

The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ Pride reaches its exuberant grand finale on Sunday, bringing rainbow-laden revelers to the streets for marquee parades in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and elsewhere across the globe.

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Protesters gather outside Stonewall Inn as President Joe Biden's motorcade passes by during his visit to the historic gay bar in New York City on Friday to mark the 55th anniversary of the riots.

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Hundreds of drag queens and kings filled the streets for the 30th annual New York City Drag March on Friday.
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A tragic week of extreme weather offers a glimpse at what's to come

In the last week, extreme weather has wreaked havoc in many parts of the U.S. and around the world. The events have brought climate change's threat into focus.

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Husets Speedway after days of heavy rain led to flooding, south of Brandon, South Dakota, on June 22.

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Commuters wait for a train in New York on June 20.

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The aftermath of flooding in Meizhou, in southern China's Guangdong province, on June 21.

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Residents fill their containers with water supplied by a municipal tanker in New Delhi on June 21.

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Pilgrims at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca on June 18, at the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

Sweltering heat wave puts 44 million under warnings as floods inundate the Midwest

More than 44 million people across the United States were under some form of heat warning or advisory Monday, with daily temperature records set to be smashed while the Midwest reels from dangerous storms and flash flooding, with more rain to come.

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Volunteers stack sandbags at Central Park in Hawarden, Iowa, on June 22, 2024.

Video of Israeli soldiers driving with injured Palestinian strapped to a jeep sparks outrage

A video showing Israeli troops driving with a wounded Palestinian man strapped to the hood of a military jeep after a raid in the occupied West Bank has sparked outrage, prompting accusations of egregious mistreatment and human shielding, amid the Israeli military’s intensifying operations in the territory.

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