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Southern California swelters as late-season heatwave smothers region

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Temperatures expected to hover around 100F in downtown LA and even hotter inland, raising concerns about wildfires Southern California faced scorching heatwaves this summer that made locals wonder what happened to their famed Mediterranean climate. Now, the fall is bringing heatwaves too.

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Trump says US to send one-time $90 payment to 20m seniors enrolled in Medicare

President says payments, to be sent in early October, are meant to offset cost of monthly insurance premiums Donald ⁠Trump has said the US government will send a one-time $90 payment to more than 20 million Americans enrolled in Medicare , the ⁠health insurance program for ⁠elderly people, ​to help offset the cost of their monthly medical insurance premiums. The president said on social media late on Friday that the ⁠payments would come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, which he said was given $2bn by Congress to improve the Medicare fee-for-service…

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Medical transport airplane missing off Massachusetts, Coast Guard says

The U.S. Coast Guard was searching the waters off Massachusetts for a missing medical transfer plane with six people on board that went missing on Saturday morning, officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration informed the Coast Guard they lost contact with the Gulfstream G-100 around 2 a.m., as the plane flew from Bermuda to Boston, according to the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard is using air and sea vehicles to search around Nantucket, the agency said. As of Saturday 8:30 a.m., there had been no updates.