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ST. LOUIS — The region's sewers, creeks and storm drains were no match for last week's record-shattering rainfall — a downpour remarkable not just for its unprecedented total, but also for its intensity. Pouring water sprawled over creek banks, across roads, and into homes and vehicles, stranding hundreds and killing two.

Levees overtopped in St. Peters and the Metro East. Sewers backed up across the region.

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The Justice Department is suing Idaho, arguing that its new abortion law violates federal law because it does not allow doctors to provide medically necessary treatment. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the suit on Tuesday. Garland said the federal government was bringing the lawsuit, which seeks to invalidate the state’s “criminal prohibition on providing abortions as applied to women suffering medical emergencies.”

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The United Nations says Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to renew an existing truce for another two months after international concerted efforts. The U.N.‘s envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg said in a statement Tuesday that Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the country’s Houthi rebels agreed to extend the truce. The statement said that both sides of the conflict had also agreed to try to reach a ’more expanded truce agreement.

The WNBA playoff picture is still unclear with two weeks left in the regular season. Five teams have clinched postseason berths and only three games separating Chicago, Las Vegas and Connecticut at the top of the standings. Seattle and Washington also have earned a spot in the postseason and are tied for fourth and fifth. There are still six teams vying for the final three spots, setting up what should be an exciting finish to the regular season. Each of those six teams has at least one game left against the other teams in the group.

President Joe Biden’s “loose cough” has returned as he faces a rebound case of COVID-19, his doctor said Tuesday, though he “continues to feel well.” White House physician Kevin O’Connor provided the update on the president’s condition as he continues to test positive for the virus,. He said Biden “remains fever-free,” and that his temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation “remain entirely normal.” Still, Biden is required to remain in isolation through at least Thursday under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines — and perhaps longer under tougher White House protocols if he continues to test positive.

Fire crews battling a western Nebraska wildfire that has destroyed some homes are looking to the skies with hope and trepidation as weather forecasters warn of thunderstorms. The National Weather Service forecast a 50% chance of thunderstorms producing heavy rains Tuesday afternoon into the night. A storm could help douse the Carter Canyon Fire south of Gering that has scorched about 25 square miles of mostly grass and timberland. The fire has destroyed three homes and damaged several more in the Carter Canyon community that was evacuated Sunday. While fire crews would welcome rain, they fear lightning strikes that could spark new fires in the tinder-dry region. Firefighters had the fire about 30% contained going into Tuesday.

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U.N. says Yemen’s warring sides have agreed to renew an existing truce for 2 months in a step toward longer peace.

A commission tasked with reviewing the names of military bases and symbols that can be perceived as commemorating the Confederate States of America is recommending that the 29th Infantry Division — a legendary force with Maryland ties that was among the first to hit Omaha Beach on D-Day — be…

Tyler Reddick has become a NASCAR Cup Series multi-race winner in a month's time, while the regular season continues with a chance to leave a star out of the 10-race playoffs. Ryan Blaney and Martin Truex Jr. remain the non-winners in position for one of the 16 postseason spots. Without Kevin Harvick winning one of the next four races to supplant them, that would leave the 2014 champ out for the first time. IndyCar's Alexander Rossi's first victory in 49 races left six-time series champion Scott Dixon with four races to catch new points leader and 2014 champ Will Power.

Alpine says it has promoted Australian reserve driver Oscar Piastri into the Formula One seat that opened a day earlier on Fernando Alonso’s surprise announcement that he’s leaving at the end of the season. Alonso has signed a multi-year deal with Aston Martin, and Alpine quickly said it would promote its 21-year-old young talent to race alongside Esteban Ocon in 2023. There was no comment in the Alpine news release from Piastri and the current F2 champion had not mentioned the promotion on his social media platforms. There has been speculation that Piastri was working on a better deal with another team, but Alpine holds his contract.

A former White House spokesman whose testimony about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was broadcast before a House committee is joining Sarah Sanders' campaign for Arkansas governor. Sanders' campaign on Tuesday announced Judd Deere will serve as its communications director. Sanders, a Republican, is running against Democrat Chris Jones. Deere was among several senior staff hires announced by the Sanders campaign. Deere served as deputy White House press secretary under former President Donald Trump. Sanders is a former Trump press secretary. Deere's testimony about Jan. 6 aired before the House committee investigating the riot last month.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, will be the keynote speaker at an annual Upstate GOP event later this month.

The NFL has suspended Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross and fined him $1.5 million for tampering with Tom Brady and Sean Payton following a six-month investigation stemming from Brian Flores’ racial discrimination lawsuit against the league. The league’s investigation found the Dolphins did not intentionally lose games during the 2019 season but the team had impermissible communication with Brady and his agent, Don Yee. The Dolphins will forfeit a first-round selection in the 2023 draft and third-round selection in the 2024 draft. Ross is suspended through Oct. 17. He may not be present at the team’s facility and may not represent the club at any team or NFL event.

Diane Warren found herself in the crosshairs of Beyoncé's mighty Beyhive — not to mention a heated culture war — on Monday after she questioned the number of songwriters on a track from Bey's new "Renaissance" album.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have endorsed Karen Bass in the Los Angeles' mayor race, cementing the congresswoman's place as the pick of the Democratic establishment. The backing from the White House gives Bass a boost over rival Rick Caruso in the race to lead the nation's second most populous city. Caruso is a billionaire developer and Republican-turned-Democrat who is running as an outsider. Biden and Harris called Bass a friend and praised her strategies to deal with a homeless crisis and rising crime. Bass could become the first woman to hold the city's top job, and the second Black person.

Revered in Philadelphia, Dick Vermeil quit coaching and left town before returning to the NFL and completing his Hall of Fame resume in other cities. Vermeil won a Super Bowl with the St. Louis Rams and later coached the Kansas City Chiefs. But Philly is home and he’s going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as an Eagle. While they appreciate him in St. Louis and he has a Northern California-based winery, Vermeil is as much part of the fabric of Philadelphia as the cheesesteak and Rocky Balboa. The 85-year-old is still plastered on billboards promoting an insurance company.

Hundreds of evacuees have left Ukraine's Donetsk region days after the government issued an order to evacuate as soon as possible. Continued fighting in the region and potential shortages of heating, electricity and water have authorities worried that coming cold weather in fall and winter could make a bad situation even worse. Yet while many are following the order to leave, others say they have nowhere else to go, and are willing to take responsibility for their own lives regardless of the cost. The Ukrainian president warned that the more people leave the region now, "the fewer people the Russian army will have time to kill.”

Mention global warming and farming infrequently enters the conversation. However, as Jeff Rowe notes in his Associated Press review of George Monbiot's “Regenesis,” the author says much commercial field farming and most raising of animals for meat is ravaging the Earth, ruining soils, expelling carbon and methane in fearsome quantities and polluting rivers and lakes. One solution: We all can eat far less meat. But leading farmers such as California’s A.G. Kawamura say it’s not necessary to become a vegetarian to save the soil – innovative farmers already are making great progress in discovering farming practices that heal the Earth and produce more food.

DUBLIN, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Perrigo Company plc (NYSE: PRGO), a leading global provider of Consumer Self-Care Products, today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.26 per share, payable on September 20, 2022, to shareholders of record on September…

Buffalo Bills starting safety Jordan Poyer was in such pain after hurting his left elbow he needed to be carted away during a training camp practice. The Bills were not able to provide any update on the severity of the injury because Poyer was getting additional tests. He was hurt during the final team drills of the day, when he was struck in the left arm by a teammate’s helmet.

A wide expansion of mail-in voting in Pennsylvania has survived a legal challenge brought by some of the same Republican state representatives who voted for the legislation nearly three years ago. The state Supreme Court upheld the law 5 to 2 on Tuesday, with both “no” votes coming from the court's two Republican justices. Millions of state voters have chosen to cast ballots by mail in recent elections, although Democrats have used it in far greater numbers. The law fell out of favor with Republicans as former President Donald Trump attacked it during his losing 2020 reelection campaign.

Over 1,100 Ohio K-12 schools in 81 counties are getting $47 million in funding for physical security upgrades such as cameras, automatic door locks and visitor badging systems. Gov. Mike DeWine announced those grant awards Tuesday. The schools are getting up to $50,000 each. They had applied but didn't receive funding when the program was launched in 2021 with just $5 million available. This year, the state is offering a total of $100 million in grants for school safety upgrades supported by federal pandemic relief funding. It plans to accept applications for the remaining $53 million.

If what doesn’t kill you truly makes you stronger, then Titan is the strongest turtle in the ocean. The juvenile Loggerhead turtle has been gashed by a boat propeller, had part of his front flipper bitten off by a shark, and was being attacked by a different shark when two New Jersey fishermen saved him. They called Sea Turtle Recovery, a group that rescues and rehabilitates turtles before returning them to the ocean. Tuesday morning, Titan was among eight turtles returned to the sea in Point Pleasant Beach after being nursed back to health. The group has returned 85 rehabilitated turtled to the ocean since 2016.

What makes Margaret run? In the darkly arresting, committedly preposterous psychothriller “Resurrection,” she races up and down city streets, her limbs pumping like pistons, a furious spring in her every accelerated step. It’s her morning exercise regimen, but her demonic pace and half-panic…

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New York state prison authorities have lifted a ban on a book about the 1971 Attica uprising following a First Amendment lawsuit. Author Heather Ann Thompson, a historian and professor at the University of Michigan, sued the state’s prisons in March in Manhattan federal court over the censorship of her book “Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971.” Prison official said last week in a letter to a Manhattan federal judge that they would dismiss the ban, but will cut out a two-page map from all copies for security purposes.

A new round of U.S. sanctions targeting Russian elites includes a woman named in news reports as Vladimir Putin’s longtime romantic partner. The Treasury Department says the government has frozen the visa of Alina Kabaeva, an Olympic gymnast in her youth and a former member of the state Duma, and imposed other property restrictions. The U.S. government says Kabaeva is also the head of a Russian national media company that promotes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Critics of the Kremlin and imprisoned Russian rights campaigner Alexey Navalny have been calling for sanctions against Kabaeva, saying her news outlet took the lead in portraying Western commentary on the invasion as a disinformation campaign.

Spanish authorities say that its leading scientific research body suffered a cyberattack that appears to have its origin in Russia. Spain’s science ministry says that the Spanish National Research Council was targeted by the ransomware attack on July 16-17. A preliminary analysis by Spain’s cybersecurity authorities said that it appears that no sensitive or confidential information was extracted. The security protocols activated to ensure that the attack was unsuccessful have left several of the council’s research centers off-line.

The Cyprus Health Ministry says a 40-year-old man is the east Mediterranean island nation's first confirmed monkeypox case. The ministry said Tuesday the case was detected after the man underwent a laboratory test at the Cypriot capital's General Hospital. The individual has a history of travel abroad and has exhibited “clinical symptoms compatible the monkeypox disease." The patient has been admitted to a specially modified ward at Nicosia General Hospital for treatment.

From a struggling addict in ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ to the guy in ‘The Invisible Man’ who tormented Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen’s roles the past few years have been mostly deeply flawed people. So much so that his mom wants him to star in something light that she “can go and enjoy watching.” He vows that he will at some point -- but not yet. In his new thriller series, "Surface'' for Apple TV+, Jackson-Cohen stars opposite Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a husband whose wife has no long-term memories after a recent accident. New episodes debut weekly on the streamer.

The San Diego Padres are close to acquiring superstar outfielder Juan Soto from the Washington Nationals in one of baseball’s biggest deals at the trade deadline, vaulting their postseason chances by adding one of baseball’s best hitters. A person with direct knowledge of the move told The Associated Press the Padres and Nationals have agreed to a multiplayer deal contingent on San Diego first baseman Eric Hosmer waiving his no-trade provision. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because negotiations were ongoing.

In “Bullet Train,” Brad Pitt plays a lovable-loser assassin (code name: Ladybug) bent on self-improvement. He’s an easygoing sweetie, in the spirit of John Cusack’s gun-for-hire in “Grosse Pointe Blank,” to name one film you may wish you were rewatching instead of watching this one.

The woman who was in Daunte Wright’s vehicle when he was fatally shot by police in a Minneapolis suburb last year is suing the city and the former officer who killed him. The lawsuit says 21-year-old Alayna Albrecht-Payton of St. Paul was physically and mentally injured when Wright’s vehicle crashed after Kim Potter shot him on April 11, 2021. Potter has said she mistook her firearm for her Taser when she fired at the 20-year-old Black man during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center. Potter, who is white, was convicted of first- and second-degree manslaughter in his death and sentenced to two years in prison.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are holding onto one of the most accurate kickers in NFL history. The team has re-signed veteran Chris Boswell to a five-year deal that carries a total value of just over $23 million. Boswell was entering the final season of a four-year extension he signed before the 2018 season. The signing gives Boswell some stability and the Steelers one of the most reliable kickers in the league. The 31-year-old has made more than 88% of his field-goal attempts since making the team through an open tryout during the 2015 season. That's the second-best percentage in league history among kickers with at least 200 attempts.

Lt. Uhura’s presence on the deck of the starship Enterprise seemed routine for the 23rd century. But the casting of Nichelle Nichols, the Black actress who played Uhura on “Star Trek” in the late 1960s, was extraordinary. Nichols, who later appeared in six “Star Trek” movies, died Saturday a…

African officials outlined their priorities for the upcoming U.N. climate summit, including a push to make heavily polluting rich nations compensate poor countries for the environmental damage done to them. The continent will also focus on how countries can adapt to global warming and how the continent can best halt further climate-related disasters. Africa has seen debilitating droughts in the east and Horn of Africa and deadly cyclones in the south. The U.N. summit will take place in Egypt in November.

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