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Heavy rains and heat waves have affected parts of China and the Asia Pacific region this week. More of the same was in the forecast.

Wildfires are hurting many industries and could strain households across Canada, one of many countries reckoning with the impact of extreme weather.

A recent study offered the “oldest decisive evidence” that our ancient hominid ancestors ate one another. But the field has a long history of overstating such claims, other scientists note.

William J. Burns secretly traveled to Ukraine for discussions on plans for its counteroffensive and intelligence-sharing. Addressing Russia’s adversaries, Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov said his country would emerge stronger.

The Biden administration has taken pains to emphasize that it viewed the matter as an internal Russian affair.

Human-caused climate change is making high temperatures more common and intensifying the dryness that fuels catastrophic wildfires.

The ongoing outbreak of fires in Canada is sending new waves of smoke into the American Midwest, and the pollution has been seen as far away as Europe.

A bipartisan Supreme Court majority preserved democratic checks and balances.

High-altitude regions will get more extreme rain than previously thought, making floods and landslides more likely, a study finds.

A national program is reducing day care fees to as low as 10 Canadian dollars, about $7.60, per day, a relief for families even as a surge in demand has created obstacles.