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Courtesy of Grand Canyon National ParkThe Grand Canyon’s notoriously rugged terrain, now scarred by flooding, complicates the search for a missing man and the completion of damage assessments to infrastructure. -
Bob Wick/Bureau of Land ManagementThe environmental groups argue Trump’s slashing of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments is illegal. -
Josh Biggs/AP PhotoDeadly flooding at the Grand Canyon is damaging the area's economy, with a washed-out pipeline severing the South Rim's water supply and shutting down lodging at the popular tourist vista for an indefinite period. -
Mathew Schwartz/UnsplashThe spiral pattern in a sunflower’s seeds isn’t random. It follows a mathematical sequence that appears throughout the natural world.
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National Park Service officials have formally identified two of the victims of last weekend’s flooding in Grand Canyon National Park. -
Grand Canyon National Park officials say an early warning for flash floods along the popular North Kaibab Trail went down Saturday, just as waters raged through the inner canyon. -
Two people are dead and one hiker remains missing following severe flash flooding in Grand Canyon National Park over the weekend. -
Craig Childs has witnessed numerous floods in the Grand Canyon. He once interviewed a man who survived a flash flood in Bright Angel Creek, the same drainage that flooded this weekend. -
A second person has been found dead with more than a dozen still unaccounted for after severe flash flooding in Grand Canyon National Park. -
The National Park Service will close all lodging on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and implement water restrictions Monday following severe flash flooding over the weekend.
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Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer was suspended for one year by the NBA, and the team was ordered to pay $30 million for violating salary cap circumvention rules in a case involving Kawhi Leonard. -
A prominent Hong Kong democracy activist, Joshua Wong, has pleaded guilty to a charge of colluding with foreign interests under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
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In the new movie It Ends, four twentysomethings find themselves stuck on an endless road — literally. Filmmaker Alex Ullom says his sensibilities were shaped by growing up online.
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A leading Palestinian writer has secretly moved his archives from the Israeli-occupied West Bank to Scotland, to save it from the risk of destruction in Israeli military operations.
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South Korea's government is trying to keep religious groups from interfering in politics. The case of one Korean pastor has attracted attention at the highest levels of the U.S. government.
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Mostly sunny, breezy, and isolated thunderstorms Thursday, a bit more active over the White Mountains region. Monsoon conditions gradually return over the coming holiday weekend. Thursday night into Saturday focusing across east central AZ, then Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon regions Sunday, more isolated on Labor Day.
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