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Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war. Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with long-range missiles and swarms of drones targeting military industries and energy facilities. It has also increasingly pummeled giant Wildberries depots, burning billions of dollars’ worth of merchandise belonging to the Russian online retail giant.

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FORT BENTON — For those who manage the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, 25 years of progress can be measured partly by what remains unchanged. The second of two anniversary celebrations was held Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Missouri Breaks Interpretive Center in Fort Benton. Both events marked 25 years since the monument’s designation in 2001.

GREAT FALLS — After a quiet Saturday morning, rain showers and thunderstorms once again bubbled up over southwestern and south-central Montana, first over the mountains, and then over the lower elevations. Today's round of active weather will last through late evening, and we can expect fewer clouds and quieter weather by Sunday morning. Lows will range from the upper 30s to the lower 50s. Our overall weather pattern remains the same in the short term.

For the second consecutive presidential election cycle, South Carolina will be the first state on the Democratic Party’s nominating calendar in 2028. South Carolina moved to the front of the line in 2024, despite New Hampshire and Iowa historically leading the nominating calendar. Several states vied to be the first to help choose the party’s nominee in 2028. The first few states tend to wield outsized influence in the nominating process.

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The All-Star Game is returning to San Francisco in two years. Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred made the announcement Friday that the 2028 Midsummer Classic will be at Oracle Park, home of the San Francisco Giants. The 2007 game was played in the picturesque waterfront ballpark, featuring Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki's famous inside-the-park home run that bounced off the tricky wall in right-center field.

Amid rising concerns over police departments’ use of Flock Safety cameras, the company’s founder said he believes the technology would have solved Nancy Guthrie’s missing-person case. “We would have solved that case,” Garrett Langley, founder and CEO of Flock Safety, told Vanity Fair. “One hundred percent,” he added. “There’s no doubt in my mind.” Guthrie disappeared in February after FBI investigators said she was kidnapped from her home in Pima County, Arizona.

For 1,148 residents of the Cleveland area who were crippled with medical debt, the debt was erased thanks to the initiative of 20-year-old Ohioan Ethan Khorana. Khorana currently attends Duke University and is majoring in public policy. "My organization (The Better Future for Cuyahoga) and me, the mission statement we both have is that we're trying to eliminate what we call the three evils of Cuyahoga County, which is poverty, violence, and discrimination," Khorana said.