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FILE - Members of the Henderson Fire Department load Deb Billet, 66, into an ambulance before transporting her to the hospital for heat-related symptoms, Wednesday, July 10, 2024, in Henderson, Nev. Heat is the top cause of weather-related fatalities nationwide. But because investigations of suspected heat deaths can take months, and mishmash of methods counties use to count them, we really don't know exactly how many people died in the most recent heat wave stretching back to July 1. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Things to know about heat deaths as a dangerously hot summer shapes up in the western US
A dangerously hot summer has shaped up in the U.S. West. Extreme heat is suspected in dozens of recent deaths, including retirees in Oregon and a motorcyclist in Death Valley, California.
 
A stop sign warns tourists of extreme heat at Badwater Basin, Monday, July 8, 2024, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. (Daniel Jacobi II/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths
Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. are still being drawn to Death Valley National Park. The desolate region is known as one of the Earth’s hottest places.
 
A long exposure image of the thermostat at the Furnace Creek Visitors Center taken just after 10:00 p.m., in Death Valley National Park, Calif., Sunday, July 7, 2024. Forecasters say a heat wave could break previous records across the U.S., including in Death Valley. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)
Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths
Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. are still being drawn to Death Valley National Park, even though the desolate region known as one of the Earth’s hottest places is being punished by a dangerous heat wave blamed for a motorcyclist’s death over the w
 
Ron Falk, 62, speaks of losing his leg, Tuesday, June 25, 2024 in Phoenix. Falk lost his right leg, had extensive skin grafting on the left one and is still recovering a year after collapsing on the searing asphalt outside a convenience store where he stopped for a cold soda during a blistering heat wave. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Blazing hot surfaces are a danger for catastrophic burn injuries in the urban desert Southwest
Sizzling sidewalks and unshaded playgrounds are a danger for catastrophic burn injuries as air temperatures reach new summer highs in desert cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas.
 
Arizona abortion-rights supporters gather for a news conference prior to delivering over 800,000 petition signatures to the capitol to get abortion rights on the November general election ballot Wednesday, July 3, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Abortion measures could be on Arizona and Nebraska ballots after organizers submit signatures
Arizona and Nebraska organizers have turned in enough signatures to get abortion-related questions before their states’ voters in November. Election officials must now verify them.
 
This book cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows "The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority is Transforming Democracy" by Mike Madrid. (Simon & Schuster via AP)
Book Review: Pollster who wrote ‘The Latino Century’ says both political parties get Hispanics wrong
Pollster Mike Madrid’s new book ‘The Latino Century’ says both political parties get the Hispanic electorate wrong. The nationally known political consultant is a longtime Republican and Mexican American from California.
 
Patients gather outside one of the five Circle The City mobile clinics stationed outside a soup kitchen for homeless people, Thursday, May 30, 2024 in Phoenix. Based in the hottest big metro in America, Circle the City is taking measures to protect patients from life-threatening heat illness as temperatures hit new highs. Homeless people accounted for nearly half of the record 645 heat-related deaths last year in Arizona's Maricopa County, which encompasses metro Phoenix.(AP Photo/Matt York)
Street medicine teams search for homeless people to deliver lifesaving IV hydration in extreme heat
As temperatures reach triple digits in metro Phoenix, heat illness is especially deadly for people who live outside under the broiling desert sun.
 
FILE - The border between the United States and Mexico, at right, cuts through the Sonoran Desert at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The bodies of three Mexican migrants have brern found Wednesday, June 27, 2024, in the Sonoran Desert near the Arizona-Mexico border as temperatures hit the triple digits across parts of the Southwest. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto, File)
Scorching heat in the US Southwest kills three migrants in the desert near the Arizona-Mexico border
Three Mexican migrants have died in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border. The deaths come as temperatures hit the triple digits across parts of the Southwest. The U.S.
 
A person tries to keep cool under misters outside a homeless shelter, May 30, 2024, in Phoenix. At least six people have died from heat-related causes in 2024 so far in sizzling metro Phoenix, where the temperatures this week hit 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius), Arizona's Maricopa Department of Public Health reported. (AP Photo/Matt York)
At least 6 heat-related deaths reported in metro Phoenix so far this year as high hits 115 degrees
At least six people have died from heat-related causes this year so far in sizzling metro Phoenix, where the temperatures this week hit 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius), Arizona’s Maricopa Department of Public Health reported this week.
 
A boy cools off at a fountain during hot weather in Chicago, Sunday, June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Tens of millions in the US remain under dangerous heat warnings
Extreme heat alerts remain in effect for tens of millions of people in the United States as cities including Chicago break heat records.
 
Home plate umpire Carlos Torres cools off during the ninth inning of a baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Sunday, June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Over 75 million people in the US are under heat alerts. Go indoors and hydrate
Over 75 million people in the United States are under extreme heat alerts as a heat wave moves eastward. The mid-Atlantic and New England are likely to see highs in the 90s as the week progresses.
 
A boy cools off at a fountain outside Wrigley Field before a baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals as hot weather descends upon the Chicago area Sunday, June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh
Severe, chaotic weather around US with high temperatures in Southwest and Midwest, snow in Rockies
Extreme weather that ranged from triple digit temperatures in the Southwest to unseasonable cold in the Pacific Northwest was forecast over the U.S. into the early week.
 
CORRECTS IDENTITY TO FORMER JUSTICE ANDREW GOULD. FILE - Kathryn Hackett King, left, speaks with Arizona Supreme Court justices before taking the oath of office to join the state's high court, July 8, 2021, in Phoenix. From left to right are: Hackett King, Vice Chief Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer, Justices Clint Bolick, John R Lopez IV, James Beene and former Justice Andrew Gould. The Arizona Legislature voted Wednesday, June 12, 2024, to send an initiative to the November ballot that would protect Justices Hackett King and Bolick, targeted for removal from the bench over support for a near-total abortion ban dating back to the Civil War. (AP Photo/Jonathan J. Cooper, File)
Arizona lawmakers agree to let voters decide on retention rules for state Supreme Court justices
Arizona lawmakers have voted to send an initiative to the November ballot that would protect two state Supreme Court justices targeted for removal over their support for a near-total abortion ban.
 
FILE - Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Washington, Dec. 15, 2023. Giuliani, also a former Donald Trump attorney, was processed Monday, June 10, 2024, in the criminal case over the effort to overturn Trump’s Arizona election loss to Joe Biden, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Rudy Giuliani processed in Arizona in fake electors scheme to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss to Biden
Rudy Giuliani has been processed in the criminal case over the effort to overturn Trump’s Arizona election loss to Joe Biden.
 
Phoenix Fire Capt. John Prato demonstrates a new protocol that the fire department in America’s hottest big city is adopting as the West braces for the first heat wave of the summer season, Monday, June 3, 2024, in Phoenix. The cold water immersion therapy already used by hospitals in the area will also now be used by Phoenix fire and paramedics personnel on every patient they encounter this season with signs of heat stroke. (AP Photo/Anita Snow)
Phoenix using ice immersion to treat heatstroke victims as Southwest bakes with highs well over 100
The season’s first heat wave is already baking the Southwestern U.S. with triple-digit temperatures as Phoenix firefighters employ new tactics in hopes of saving more lives. Maricopa County saw 645 heat-related deaths last year.
 
Arizona State Representatives Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, D, and Lydia Hernandez, D, left, speak during debate at the Capitol, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Arizona voters will decide if local police can arrest people for crossing into the US from Mexico
The Arizona Legislature has given final approval to a proposal that will ask voters to make it a state crime for noncitizens to enter the state through Mexico at any location other than a port of entry.
 
People walk through cooling misters along the Las Vegas Strip, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, in Las Vegas. Parts of California, Nevada and Arizona are expected to bake this week as the first heat wave of the season arrives with triple-digit temperatures. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Record highs expected to fall as Southwest US bakes in first heat wave of season earlier than usual
The first heat wave of the season has arrived earlier than usual across much of the U.S. Southwest. Forecasters say Tuesday’s triple digits in parts of southeast California, southern Nevada and Arizona are likely to top 110 degrees or higher by Thursday.
 
FILE - George Alan Kelly, center, is followed by reporters as he exits the Santa Cruz County Courthouse, April 29, 2024, in Nogales, Ariz. The judge overseeing the case of Arizona rancher Kelly, who was unsuccessfully tried in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property, said Monday, June 3, that he would mull whether to allow a new trial against the man later. (Angela Gervasi/Nogales International via AP, Pool, File)
A judge will mull whether an Arizona border rancher can face a new murder trial after dismissal
The judge overseeing the case of an Arizona rancher who was unsuccessfully tried in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property says he will consider whether to leave open the possibility of a new trial later.
 
FILE - Jessie Fuentes, who works providing people with canoes and kayaks, walks along the Rio Grande with the sun pushing the temperature into the 90s on July 6, 2023. The death certificates of more than 2,300 people who died in the United States last summer mention the effects of excessive heat, the highest number in 45 years of records, according to an Associated Press analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. With May already breaking heat records, 2024 could be even deadlier. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
AP analysis finds 2023 set record for US heat deaths, killing in areas that used to handle the heat
An Associated Press analysis of federal data shows that about 2,300 people in the United States died in the summer of 2023 with their death certificates mentioning the effects of excessive heat. That’s the highest in 45 years of records.
 
This cover image released by Knopf shows "The Butcher" by Joyce Carol Oates. (Knopf via AP)
Book Review: Joyce Carol Oates’ novel ‘Butcher’ is a reflection on women’s agency over their bodies
The new novel “Butcher” by Joyce Carol Oates is a reflection on women’s agency over their bodies. It tells the story of Silas Aloysius Weir during his years as director of New Jersey State Asylum for Female Lunatics in the mid- to late 1880s.
 
St. Vincent de Paul allows a first look at the nearly-completed, longer-term, 100-bed shelter for older adults, military veterans and people with disabilities who will be able to keep their companion animals at a nearby center designed for them, Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
After a deadly heat wave last summer, metro Phoenix is changing tactics
Officials in America’s hottest big metro are working to better protect people amid temperatures already hitting the triple digits this spring.
 
Volunteer chaplains pray during a graveside service at an indigent burial at the Maricopa County White Tanks Cemetery, Thursday, April 11, 2024, in Litchfield Park, Ariz. Many interred in Maricopa County's White Tanks Cemetery, where the county's dead are laid to rest if they they have no known family, have been the victims of heat-related deaths. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Last year’s deadly heat wave in metro Phoenix didn’t discriminate
The victims of last summer’s staggering 31-day streak of daily temperatures reaching 110 degrees Fahrenheit and over were old and young, male and female, homeless and well-to-do, Black, white, Hispanic, Asian American and Native American.
 
Dr. Eugene Livar, Arizona's first heat officer for the Arizona Department of Health Services, speaks during a news conference held by the ADHS and Governor's Office of Resiliency ahead of Heat Awareness Week at the Escalante Multi-Generational Center Friday, May 3, 2024, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona is boosting efforts to protect people from the extreme heat after hundreds died last summer
Arizona’s new heat officer said Friday that he is working with local governments and nonprofit groups to open more cooling centers and ensure homes have working air conditioners in a more unified effort to prevent another ghastly toll of heat-related deaths this summer.
 
Ariz.. Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, takes a selfie with Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, after Hobbs signed the repeal of the Civil War-era near-total abortion ban to Thursday, May 2, 2024, at the Capitol in Phoenix. Democrats secured enough votes in the Arizona Senate to repeal the ban on abortions that the state's highest court recently allowed to take effect. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Arizona governor’s signing of abortion law repeal follows political fight by women lawmakers
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs’ signing of the repeal of a Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions was a stirring occasion for the women working to ensure the 19th century law remains in the past.
 
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs smiles after signing the repeal of the Civil War-era near-total abortion ban, Thursday, May 2, 2024, at the Capitol in Phoenix. Democrats secured enough votes in the Arizona Senate to repeal the ban on abortions that the state's highest court recently allowed to take effect. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Arizona’s Democratic governor signs a bill to repeal 1864 ban on most abortions
Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed a bill to repeal a ban on most abortions. The action Thursday relegates the 1864 law approved before Arizona became a state to the past.
 
Arizona state senator Jake Hoffman, R-District 15, motions as he speaks to the Senate President, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at the Capitol in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Arizona lawmakers vote to undo near-total abortion ban from 1864, with Gov. Hobbs expected to sign
The Arizona Legislature has approved a repeal of a long-dormant ban on nearly all abortions. The vote to undo the 19th century law sent the bill to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs.
 
George Alan Kelly, center, is followed by reporters as he exits the Santa Cruz County Courthouse on Monday, April 29, 2024, in Nogales, Arizona. Kelly's trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury and prosecutors said Monday they will not retry him. (Angela Gervasi/Nogales International via AP)
Mexican officials regret US decision not to retry American rancher in fatal shooting of Mexican man
The Mexican consul general in Nogales says his foreign ministry is displeased with the decision not to retry an Arizona rancher accused in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property.
 
This combination of cover images shows "The Backyard Bird Chronicles" by Amy Tan, left, and "The Birds that Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness" by Kenn Kaufman. (Knopf via AP, left, and Avid Reader Press via AP)
Book Review: Novelist Amy Tan shares love of the natural world in ‘The Backyard Bird Chronicles’
Best-selling novelist Amy Tan of “The Joy Luck Club” fame combines entries from her nature journal with astonishing illustrations thanks to lessons in bird illustration in “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” to share a birdwatching obsession that dates back to before the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
George Alan Kelly listens as county prosecutors call to dismiss his criminal case during a hearing Monday, April 29, 2024, in Nogales, Ariz. Kelly's trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury. (Angela Gervasi/Nogales International via AP)
Prosecutors say they will not retry an Arizona rancher accused of murder near the US-Mexico border
Prosecutors say they will not retry an Arizona rancher whose trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury.
 
George Alan Kelly listens to closing arguments in Santa Cruz County Superior Court, Thursday, April 18, 2024 in Nogales, Ariz. Kelly was charged with second-degree murder in the January 2023 death of 48-year-old Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, who lived south of the border in Nogales, Mexico. (Angela Gervasi/Nogales International, via AP, Pool)
Arizona judge declares mistrial in the case of a rancher accused of fatally shooting a migrant
An Arizona judge has declared a mistrial in the case of rancher accused of fatally shooting a Mexican man on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border. Jurors could not reach consensus on last year’s fatal shooting.
 
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