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The operator of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said it had began releasing the first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. (AP video/Ayaka McGill, Wayne Zhang and Lui Zheng)

Rescuers have evacuated more than 100,000 people from flood-hit areas of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province in the past three weeks. (Aug. 24) (AP video/Shazia Bhatti)

Here’s the latest for Thursday August 24th: Shooting at Southern California biker bar; Russian mercenary leader presumed dead in plane crash; Giuliani, two attorneys surrender to authorities in Atlanta; Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee.

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As cities bake in scorching temperatures, residents’ access to water to stay cool has become a critical need.

Police in Franklin North Carolina say Margaret Frances Elizabeth “Maggie” Sweeney was arrested for allegedly making false reports that she had been murdered.

Two months after a railroad bridge collapse sent carloads of hazardous oil products plunging into Montana’s Yellowstone River, the cleanup workers are gone and a mess remains. (Aug. 24) (AP Video/Matthew Brown)

Three people were killed in a shooting Wednesday at a Southern California biker bar and the shooter also died, Orange County Sheriff’s officials said. Six more people were transported to hospitals, five of them with gunshot wounds. (Aug. 24)

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Tropical Storm Franklin is unleashing heavy floods and landslides in the Dominican Republic after making landfall in the country’s southern region. (AP Video/Martin Adames Alcantara)

Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s lawyer and confidant, turned himself in at a jail in Atlanta on Wednesday on charges related to efforts to overturn then-President Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Attorneys Sidney Powell and Jenn…

Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is presumed dead after a plane crash north of Moscow killed all 10 people on board. (Aug. 24)