By SETH BORENSTEIN

NEW YORK (AP) — Extensive triple digit heat, broken temperature records and oppressive humidity piled up into a steaming mess as the heat dome crushing the Eastern half of the nation sizzled to what should be its worst Tuesday.

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New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit a little after noon, the first time since 2013. Then Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston joined the 100 club. More than 150 million people woke up to heat warnings and forecasters at the National Weather Service expected dozens of places to tie or set new daily high temperature records Tuesday. The dangerous heat sent people to the hospital, delayed Amtrak trains and caused utilities to urge customers to conserve power.

“Every East Coast state today from Maine to Florida has a chance of 100 degree actual temperature,” said private meteorologist Ryan Maue, a former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief scientist.

Fryeburg, Maine, also hit 100, for the first time since 2011.

“Getting Maine to 100 degrees is infrequent,” Maue said.

Tuesday’s heat came on top of 39 new or tied heat records Monday. But just as dangerous as triple digit heat is the lack of cooling at night, driven by the humidity.

“You get the combination of the extreme heat and humidity but no relief,” said Jacob Asherman, a meteorologist at NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center. “It’s kind of been just everything stacked on top of itself…. It just speaks to how strong this heat wave is. This is a pretty, pretty extreme event.”

Children cool off during the Benton Harbor Department of Public Safety’s Spray & Play held at the Pete Mitchell City Center Park in downtown Benton Harbor, Mich., on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium via AP)

Asherman and Maue said Tuesday is the peak of the high pressure system that sits on top of the Mid-Atlantic and keeps the heat and humidity turned up several notches.

“Nobody is immune to the heat,” said Kimberly McMahon, the weather service public services program manager who specializes in heat and health.

Heat turns dangerous

Dozens attending outdoor high school graduation ceremonies in a northern New Jersey city on Monday were treated for heat exhaustion and related problems, including 16 taken to hospitals. The Paterson school district held ceremonies in the morning and the afternoon as temperatures soared to nearly 100 degrees. Officials halted the second ceremony about an hour after it had started due to the heat.

And in New Hampshire, two 16-year-old hikers were rescued from a mountain in Jaffrey late Monday afternoon, overcome by the heat, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said. They were described as being in and out of consciousness and taken to a hospital.

The heat hit New York City as residents headed to the polls for the city’s primary election. In Queens, Rekha Malhotra was handing out flyers in support of Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani while wearing a pink electric fan around their neck.

“It’s 90 bazillian degrees and here I am,” said Malhotra. “I could have been phone banking.”

“I have all the things — hat, ice and this,” Malhotra added, clutching a commercial-grade spray bottle.

Bubba the English Bulldog plays in a pool in his family’s front yard on a hot Friday, June 20, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Utilities across the Midwest and East braced for the surge of extra demand in the heat, at times asking people to cut back on air conditioning when it felt like it was needed the most. In Memphis, Tennessee, residents were asked to turn off unnecessary lights and electronics, wait until nighttime to use dishwashers, washing machines dryers, and raise thermostats a few degrees, if health allows.

No relief at night

The heat and humidity during the day was compounded by humid nights where the temperatures don’t drop much and the human body and the electric bill don’t get a break to recover, said Bernadette Woods Placky, chief meteorologist at Climate Central.

“The longer the heat lasts, the more it wears on the body, the more it wears on the health,” Woods Placky said.

A good rule of thumb is the temperature has to get at least as low as 75 degrees, if not lower, for people to recover, McMahon said. That’s a lesson from the Pacific Northwest heat wave of 2021, when many of the deaths were older people who lived at home and died at night because it wasn’t getting cool enough, she said.

“Unlike other weather hazards, heat does have that compounding effect on the human body. Your body tolerates less and less heat as the days go on,” McMahon said.

Because warmer air from human-caused climate change holds more moisture, making it more humid, summer nights are actually heating up faster than summer days, Woods Placky said. That’s why the Dust Bowl of the 1930s hit high temperatures similar to now, but it wasn’t as warm overall because the nights cooled, she said.

The United States daytime summer high temperature has increased 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit since 1975, but the nighttime lowest temperature is now on average 2.6 degrees higher, according to NOAA data. In Baltimore, summer nights have warmed 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit since 1975, while summer days only 1.5 degrees, the data showed.

Marc Savenor, who owns Acme Ice and Dry Ice Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, struggled to keep up with phones ringing as the heat wave overwhelmed ice machines and refrigerators, forcing customers to seek emergency supplies.

“During the heat waves, my phone will ring at 3 in the morning till 11 at night,” Savenor said as workers shoveled dry ice into pellets. “There’s no help for the weary here, because you’ve got to get it when it’s coming in and everybody wants some.”

Air conditioners and fans have been flying off the shelves at Khan Electronics in Queens, owner Mudassar Khan said.

“It started getting hot at night. People buy air conditioners when they feel uncomfortable at night,” Khan said.

“Relief is coming,” Maue said, predicting that on Friday, New York City probably won’t even get into the 70s. “It’ll feel incredible.”

Associated Press writers Cedar Attanasio in New York; Bruce Shipkowski in Trenton, New Jersey; Adrian Sainz in Memphis, Tennessee; Rodrigue Ngowi in Boston; and Patrick Whittle in Portland, Maine, contributed.

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A Minneapolis woman who killed a teen and injured five others when she drove an SUV into a crowd in the city’s downtown during a fight last summer was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 24 years in prison.

Hennepin County District Judge Hilary Caligiuri sentenced Latalia Anjolie Margalli to 15 years for the hit-and-run death of 16-year-old De’Miaya Broome of Fridley and five consecutive 21-month terms for the others who were injured in the Sept. 14 incident on Fifth Street North at Hennepin Avenue.

Latalia Anjolie Margalli (Courtesy of the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office)

“The top of the range sentence of 285 months appropriately reflects the criminality of the conduct,” Caligiuri said.

Last month, Margalli, 23, pleaded guilty to second-degree unintentional murder and five counts of second-degree assault.

Even though Margalli took some level of responsibility by pleading guilty, she has not shown remorse for her crimes, Senior Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Dan Allard said Tuesday in court. In jail calls, Allard told the judge, Margalli said she hopes she becomes famous so she can write a book.

Margalli’s license was suspended at the time of the hit-and-run due to an outstanding ticket in Iowa, according to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.

Crash caught on camera

Margalli was in downtown Minneapolis with her sister and two other women. Just after midnight, her group came across another group of young women. An argument led to a physical fight in the middle of the street between Margalli’s sister and De’Miaya.

Several people, including Margalli, tried to break up the fight but were unsuccessful.

Margalli returned to her SUV, which was parked close by, backed up, cranked the steering wheel to the right and accelerated the wrong way on Fifth Street directly toward the crowd without braking, running over De’Miaya, who was still on the ground fighting, and hitting others.

Margalli did not stop. Officers took her into custody soon after the hit-and-run with help from a witness who followed her.

De’Miaya was pronounced dead at Hennepin County Medical Center.

Injuries to the others ranged from bumps and bruises to broken legs and a head injury, according to the complaint. Injured were two 14-year-old girls, a woman, 26, a man, 24, and another man, 28.

Officers recovered multiple surveillance videos that captured the incident.

Sentencing arguments

Prosecutor Allard noted Tuesday in court that Margalli has a history of assault convictions. Allard read from a part of a presentence investigation report he said stated Margalli “appears to lack any ability to regulate and control her anger. This was extraordinarily reckless, brazen and dangerous.”

“That’s exactly what we have here. This is not a normal, unintentional homicide,” Allard said. “This could have killed significantly more people.”

Margalli’s attorney, Assistant Hennepin County Public Defender Jesse Dong, filed a memorandum in court Tuesday morning arguing that she has a claim of imperfect defense of others. He said that while Margalli’s sister and De’Miaya were fighting, others were kicking the sister in the head and body.

Margalli did not join in on the fight while she she was trying to break it up, according to Dong, adding she was hit with mace.

“Ms. Margalli was afraid for the well-being of her sister,” Dong said Tuesday in court, while arguing for a downward departure from state sentencing guidelines.

In arguing against consecutive sentences, Dong said Margalli “did not take multiple actions directed at multiple individuals.” He said consecutive sentences would exaggerate the criminality of Margalli’s conduct.

Earlier, prosecutor Allard noted Dong’s claim that Margalli was attempting to defend others, saying, “This was an attempt to cause harm, and she caused the worst harm she could. She killed a young woman.”

‘My heart will always ache’

De’Miaya was a student at Minnesota Internship Center High School in Minneapolis and aspired to become a nurse, her mother, Andrea Mitchell Broome, told the court. She loved animals and enjoyed drawing.

“De’Miaya was looking forward to prom and planned to graduate with her friends,” she said.

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On the night De’Miaya was killed, she had been at a homecoming game with her friends before going downtown. Her mother said she kept in contact with her through text and calls, prior to her midnight curfew.

“The smile on her face that evening she left home, I will never forget,” she said. “All she wanted to do was to be a teenager and have fun. The pain that is in my heart is indescribable. My heart will always ache.”

De’Miaya’s father broke down in tears when he recalled how as a young child she would bring her pillow and blanket to the couch and join him.

“It’s been hard without my daughter,” he said. “I keep reliving the moments before her death, wishing I could have done something to protect her. I will never understand why this happened, but I know that her life meant something so much more than this senseless act.”

Margalli apologized before hearing her sentence, adding: “I take full responsibility for my actions.”

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and MARY CLARE JALONICK

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new U.S. intelligence report found that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back only a few months after a U.S. strike, and was not “completely and fully obliterated” as President Donald Trump has said, according to two people familiar with the early assessment.

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The early intelligence report issued by the Defense Intelligence Agency on Monday contradicts statements from Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the status of Iran’s nuclear facilities. The people were not authorized to address the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

According to the people, the report found that while the Saturday strikes at the Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites did significant damage, they were not totally destroyed.

This satellite picture by Planet Labs PBC shows Iran’s underground nuclear enrichment site at Fordo on March 19, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

The White House strongly pushed back on the assessment, calling it “flat-out wrong.”

“The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. “Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”

The CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on the DIA assessment. ODNI coordinates the work of the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies, including the DIA, which is the intelligence arm of the Defense Department, responsible for producing intelligence on foreign militaries and the capabilities of adversaries.

The intelligence assessment was first reported by CNN on Tuesday.

Barring a trade, Friday night’s first round of the 2025 NHL Draft looks to be a quiet one for Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin and his front office team.

The Wild traded away their first-round pick when they acquired defense prospect David Jiricek from Columbus last November, meaning the Blue Jackets now own the 20th overall pick once owned by Minnesota.

With the Wild franchise celebrating 25 years, this will be their 26th go-round in the draft, which has usually been held at one site — Xcel Energy Center was the host in 2011 — with all 32 teams sending their brain trust to one arena to focus on their future. The league is trying a new “decentralized” approach in 2025, with the top three dozen or so picks expected to be at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles so they can hold up their new employer’s sweater when their name is called.

The key personnel from each NHL team will be at their home base making their selections remotely, as opposed to sitting at tables next to the front offices of other teams. Guerin and his crew will be conducting the draft from their TRIA Rink offices in downtown St. Paul on Friday and Saturday.

“When you’re at the draft table, you’re talking in code, you don’t want to use names,” said Judd Brackett, the Wild’s director of amateur scouting. “In this scenario, it makes it easier — but there are things that are advantageous about being in person, too. But it’s going to be great to get our group together this week, and we’re excited.”

With 25 Wild drafts in the past and another looming, here is a look at some draft facts as they relate to the Wild.

When is the draft, and how can I watch?

Round 1 begins at 6 p.m. CDT Friday, with ESPN televising the first 32 picks. Rounds 2-7 will take place Saturday starting at 11 a.m. CDT, and can be seen on NHL Network.

Which names will we hear called first on Friday?

NHL general managers are practiced in the art of deception, and trades, both up and down, are certainly in play. But as it stands, the first three selections belong to the New York Islanders, San Jose Sharks and Chicago Blackhawks, in that order. The top three prospects, according to NHL Central Scouting and most experts who have made a mock draft, are major junior defenseman Matthew Schaefer, major junior forward Michael Misa, and Boston College forward James Hagens.

If you’re waiting to hear a Minnesota name, expect Woodbury/Hill-Murray defenseman Logan Hensler, who had a top-notch freshman season at Wisconsin, to go sometime in the top 20. Overall, Brackett said this year’s draft is considered “forward heavy.”

When will the Wild pick?

This could be a light weekend for Minnesota, which heads into the draft owning just four selections. The Wild are first on the clock in the second round, 52nd overall, on Saturday. They also select 121st overall in Round 4, 141st (Round 5) and 180th (Round 6). While there are always a few late-round gems out there, the reality is that the names called by the Wild on Saturday will more than likely start their pro careers in Iowa, and have much to prove before cracking an NHL lineup.

Of the 24 players on the Wild’s NHL roster last season, just three — Vinnie Hinostroza, Jared Spurgeon and Jake Middleton — were picked after Round 5, while Justin Brazeau, Freddie Gaudreau and Mats Zuccarello were undrafted. Fourteen were picked in the first or second rounds.

Where did all of the Wild’s 2025 picks go?

Several players currently on the Wild roster or in their system are there because Guerin used 2025 draft picks to get them here.

Jiricek cost them the 2025 first round pick and a few players. Their third-round pick went to Philadelphia in order to move up one spot in the 2024 draft so they could select defenseman Zeev Buium 12th overall.

The fourth-round pick in this draft went to Anaheim in 2023 in the deal that brought defenseman John Klingberg to Minnesota for 21 games. Similarly, a 2022 trade with the Rangers brought tough guy Ryan Reaves to the Wild for 67 games in exchange for their fifth-round 2025 pick. And defenseman Zach Bogosian is a member of the Wild because Guerin sent the seventh-round pick to Tampa Bay in 2023.

Barring more draft weekend moves, the Wild will use a fourth-round pick they got from Toronto in 2023 in exchange for Ryan O’Reilly and Josh Pilar, and a fifth-round selection they got from Columbus as part of the Jiricek deal.

Worst pick in Wild history?

The Wild’s first general manager, Doug Risebrough, did some great things in building the franchise. But after drafting Marian Gaborik in 2000, his run of first-round picks in the was notable for many of the wrong reasons. In 2005, he used the fourth overall pick on Benoit Pouliot, who played fewer than 75 games for Minnesota. Among those picked later in the 2005 first round were future NHL All Stars Carey Price, Tukka Rask, Anze Kopitar, Mark Staal and T.J. Oshie.

Risebrough and his front office team used their next three first-round picks on James Sheppard, Colton Gillies and Tyler Cuma.

But perhaps the biggest Wild draft disappointment came in 2004. If there was one criticism from provincial Minnesota hockey fans in the early days of this franchise, it was the lack of home-grown talent in the system. Risebrough sought to change that, using the 12th pick to grab Savage, Minn., native A.J. Thelen, a big defenseman who had cut his teeth at Shattuck-St. Mary’s and was coming off a monster freshman season at Michigan State. Less than a year after his name was called by the Wild, Thelen had been removed from the Spartans roster after a zero-goal season. He played one game for the Wild’s AHL affiliate in Houston.

Best pick in Wild history?

Some notable names have been grabbed by the Wild in the first round, beginning in 2000 when their first-ever draft pick, third overall, became the team’s first star in Gaborik. But it will be hard for this franchise, or any franchise, to top the value they found in 2015 when former Minnesota general manager Chuck Fletcher used a fifth-round pick, 135th overall, to select a small town Russian kid named Kirill Kaprizov.

Worst draft-day trade in Wild history?

It looked like little more than a swap of later-round draft picks on draft day in 2014 when Tampa Bay wanted to move up one spot in the third round. Minnesota got third- and seventh-round picks from the Lightning, which Fletcher used to select collegian: Louie Belpedio and former Gophers defenseman Jack Sadek, who played a combined total of four games for the Wild. With the pick acquired from Minnesota, the Lightning grabbed Brayden Point, who has scored more than 300 goals in the NHL over the past nine seasons, and was Tampa Bay’s leading goal scorer on 2020 and 2021 Stanley Cup champion teams.

Best draft-day trade in Wild history?

The recently-retired Cal Clutterbuck was a fan favorite in Minnesota, beloved for his hard-nosed “hit anything that moves” style and his old-time hockey attitude on the ice. So, some heads turned on draft day in 2013, when the Wild sent a third-round pick and Clutterbuck to the Islanders in exchange for Swiss forward Nino Niederreiter. In his first five seasons with the Wild, before he was traded to Carolina in 2019, Niederreiter was a well-liked forward who averaged better than 20 goals a season.

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