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Several World Cup host cities, including Los Angeles, Seattle, and Vancouver, face significant wildfire smoke risk.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani celebrated the primary victories of the three Democrats he endorsed Tuesday night.

NPR"s John Burnett reports that New Orleans is a city extremely vulnerable to hurricane flood damage because it is surrounded by water and generally sits below sea level. The Army Corps of Engineers has erected a system of dikes to protect the city, but others fear a potential disaster if New Orleans is struck by a storm as big as Hurricane Andrew, which devastated South Florida a few years ago. (7:30) CUTAWAY 1C 0:59 1D 7. CHRYSLER RECALL -- NPR's Don Gonyea reports that the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has gone to court to force Chrysler to recall 91,000 cars. Federal officials say that rear seat belts in the cars are unsafe, but Chrysler has resisted the recall, saying there's no problem. This is the first time an automaker has resisted federal requests for a voluntary recall.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Charlie Wilburn, a former member of the Cincinnati City Council and Jenny Laster, the spokesperson for a group of black political and religious leaders in Cincinnati; Richard Anderson, CEO, Northwest Airlines, and O.V. Delle-Femine, National Director, Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association; Attorney General John Ashcroft on the decision to allow a closed-circuit feed of the Timothy McVeigh execution to Oklahoma City; an announcement inside Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, where 43 people died in a stampede last Wednesday; one of the fans who escaped the stampede; President George W. Bush; Lieutenant Shane Osborn, commander of the damaged US Navy spy plane that made an emergency landing on Hainan Island two weeks ago; Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sun Yuxi; and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

With Brussels now at a Level 4 terror alert, the city has been declared to face a "serious and imminent" threat. Large public events are now being limited, and the city's metro system is closed.

In addition to the two fatalities, the driver injured about 20 people in the western city of Muenster, police say, then killed himself.

There have been two oil pipeline leaks in the past month -- one in South Dakota and one in southern Illinois. But the city of Bloomington says it has not…

President Trump repeated a misleading claim about poll watching in Philadelphia during the first presidential debate. We explore the latest on how the city is preparing.

The city of Philadelphia issued an apology Thursday for the unethical medical experiments performed on mostly Black inmates at its Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s through the 1970s.

The mayor of a Texas border city declared a state of emergency Saturday over concerns about the community's ability to handle an anticipated influx of migrants across the Mexican border.