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1. US and Russia Donald Trump Jr. said he met with a Russian lawyer connected to the Kremlin last year because he'd been told the person had "information helpful to" his father's campaign. In a statement to CNN, Trump Jr. said the meeting was set up by an acquaintance from the Miss Universe pageant and that he also invited Jared Kusher and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort to the meeting. Trump Jr. said the woman they met with said she had information that people connected to Russia were funding the DNC and supporting Hillary Clinton, before changing the subject to adoptions of Russian children. Trump Jr. said nothing came of the meeting and his father never knew about it.

The June 2016 meeting -- which happened two weeks after Donald Trump nabbed the GOP nomination -- is significant because it's the first known meeting of senior Trump officials with a Russian national during the campaign.

Overall about 45 fires are burning across parts of the West, which is suffering through a dry, hot summer. Six states are under red flag warnings, and things won't get better this week, since weather forecasters think lightning from thunderstorms will spark more blazes.

Fourteen different firesare burning from one end of the Golden State to the other, spurring thousands to evacuate. One of the fires, in Santa Barbara County in the south, threatened about 60 kids at a summer camp. They had to wait in a dining hall while firefighters fought the flames around them. The kids were unharmed. There are fires in Northern California too, must notably one in Butte County that's burned 5,600 acresand forced 4,000 people to flee.

Overall about 45 fires are burning across parts of the West, which is suffering through a dry, hot summer. Six states are under red flag warnings, and things won't get better this week, since weather forecasters think lightning from thunderstorms will spark more blazes.

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