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Fire update: Firefighters continue to work on blazes all over the Inland Northwest including Cape Horn (where hundreds have evacuated Bayview, Idaho), Williams Lake, Indian Trail, Twenty-One Mile Grade and more. (KREM)

One person is dead and five were injured when the Big 4 Ice Caves in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest collapsed yesterday. (Seattle Times)

A second man has died after falling ill at the Paradiso EDM festival at the Gorge over Hoopfest weekend. (Spokesman-Review)

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The South Carolina Senate has voted to remove the Confederate Flag from the State House, moving the bill to the House of Representatives for debate. (WCSC)

After half a century, the first cruise from Florida to Cuba has been scheduled for next May. (Orlando Sentinel)

Greece’s new bailout proposal to salvage the country’s finances before banks run out of cash? Nope, they don’t have one. (Washington Post)

A bomb exploded at a Nigerian government building killing 25 people in a recent terrorist attack. (CNN)