Mark Walker

A heat dome is responsible for miserably high temperatures, and it’s also helping to push smoke from wildfires to the east.

The name change, approved earlier this year, took effect on Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration said. New signage with President Trump’s name is expected roll out in the coming weeks.

While relief could come to the Great Lakes and the far Northeast over the weekend, the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast will stay hot.

Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky said emergency crews were rescuing people from flooded homes and vehicles on Saturday.

The State Department said it planned to release 40,000 U.S. passports featuring an image of the president to commemorate the United States’ 250th anniversary.

Many of the dogs that were found buried at Miranda’s Rescue Animal Sanctuary in Fortuna, Calif., showed evidence of bullet fragments, investigators said.

High temperatures across the San Francisco Bay Area will reach into the 90s on Thursday, forecasters said.

A federal judge sided with jazz performer Chuck Redd, who canceled a 2025 holiday concert after President Trump’s name was added to the building.

Her case was, of course, dismissed.

A Massachusetts State Police cadet, already hobbled from a previous bout, raised his hand to take on a more skilled fighter, and investigators say no one stopped him. Four people face charges.

Fires fueled by drought have burned tens of thousands of acres in southern Georgia and northern Florida, where officials said one blaze was blamed for the death of a volunteer firefighter.

As many as 21 others were treated at a hospital and at the scene after a “chemical release” of hydrogen sulfide at a plant in Nitro, W. Va., the authorities said.