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U.S President Joe Biden is standing firm, telling his party he's staying in the presidential race and calling for unity. But as questions about his fitness for the office arise, Biden’s health dominated a White House press briefing.

In a newspaper column, Andrea Robin Skinner tells her story of suffering sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, Munro's second husband. Skinner alleges that when Munro found out about the abuse years later, the late famed Canadian writer said it had nothing to do with her.

A heat wave has brought record high temperatures to California and Nevada that are already substantially higher than last year. The heat has people searching for ways to stay cool and firefighters working to keep wildfires from spreading.