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The champion reigned supreme as Joey Chestnut staved off a horde of hungry challengers at the annual Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest on New York’s Coney Island. Chestnut endured sweltering temperatures to wolf down 66 franks and buns in 10 minutes and claim his 18th Mustard Belt during the Independence Day tradition. His next closest competitor, Patrick Bertoletti, managed to eat 51 wieners for a distant second. “I knew right away that I was fast, and I knew I was going to be able to get the win — and I knew also I wasn’t going to break…

LOS ANGELES — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was involved in a hit-and-run on Friday in California’s wine country that left one car with “major damage,” according to local authorities, who said that the 86-year-old could face misdemeanor charges for the collision. Paul Pelosi was driving his brown convertible in Yountville, a small town in the heart of wine country in Napa County, when he struck a legally parked car on the side of the road, briefly stopped and then drove away, the Napa County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release on Saturday. There were no reported injuries.…

Donna Festinger wasn’t going to let Massachusetts, one of the most influential colonies during the nation’s founding, pass on a chance to showcase its best self during the Great American State Fair on the National Mall. So the Greenfield native headed to Washington to deck out the lifeless pavilion after Democratic Gov. Maura Healey joined some other state leaders in opting not to participate in the event. “The governor waited until the last minute to say that she wasn’t going to do anything with the exhibit, so I just thought, ‘What the heck, I’ll go down there,’” Ms. Festinger said.…

President Trump has painted Democratic primaries as targets for communists, but the Communist Party USA dismisses that claim. The party condemned his “red‑baiting tirades” against the Democratic Socialists of America primary victories in New York, Colorado and the District, labeling his rhetoric a “dangerous escalation of anti‑communist hysteria.” CPUSA co-Chair Joe Sims contends that no current or hopeful Democratic candidates are communists. “I don’t know any Democratic candidate for Congress that’s a member of the Communist Party,” he said in a Friday statement. “I’m also unaware of any member of Congress that’s a member, though I wish there were. Hey,…

LAKE GENEVA, Wis. — Three children who died when a boat capsized in Geneva Lake during a Wisconsin storm were wearing life vests, authorities said as the nation assessed damage from storms and a heat wave that marred the July Fourth holiday, leaving hundreds of thousands of utility customers without power. The tragedy in Wisconsin’s Walworth County in a part of Southern Wisconsin that has long served as a favorite vacation getaway for residents of the Chicago area came with a storm that downed trees, ruptured power lines and made transportation treacherous and complicated across multiple states. It was a…

The champion reigned supreme as Joey Chestnut staved off a horde of hungry challengers at the annual Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest on New York’s Coney Island. Chestnut endured sweltering temperatures to wolf down 66 franks and buns in 10 minutes and claim his 18th Mustard Belt during the Independence Day tradition. His next closest competitor, Patrick Bertoletti, managed to eat 51 wieners for a distant second. “I knew right away that I was fast, and I knew I was going to be able to get the win — and I knew also I wasn’t going to break…

LAKE GENEVA, Wis. — Three people died and seven others were rescued Friday after a boat capsized in Geneva Lake as a strong storm passed through southern Wisconsin, an official said. Many injuries were reported in Wisconsin’s Walworth County after the storm toppled trees, knocked down power lines and damaged buildings, said Tom Hausner, undersheriff for the Walworth County Sheriff’s department. Hausner said he did not know any other information about the people who died and those rescued. Police in the city of Lake Geneva are investigating, Hausner said. Officials there didn’t immediately respond to an email and voice message…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth. Northrop Grumman launched Katalyst Space Technologies’ Link spacecraft from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. The Pegasus rocket blasted off from the belly of a modified airplane, putting Link on course to reach and capture NASA’s Swift Observatory in about a month. Launched in 2004, Swift is sinking faster than ever because of recent solar storms. NASA is paying $30 million for Katalyst to capture the telescope and boost its orbit so it can continue tracking…

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants Americans to “take measure of who we are” on the nation’s 250th birthday, extolling the U.S. as a nation of promise while challenging it to be more equitable and welcoming to outsiders. Seated behind President George Washington’s desk at New York City Hall on Friday, the democratic socialist mayor praised the hard-working and downtrodden while scolding nativists and greedy politicians. “As we mark 250 years, what do we see? We see a city of contradictions, within a nation of contradictions,” he said. “We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world…

Federal safety investigators said in a new preliminary report that they found no indication that engine failure caused the fiery crash of a plane on a skydiving outing last month in Missouri that killed all 12 people aboard, including several very experienced jumpers. The report issued Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board also did not flag any other serious safety or mechanical failures that could have led to the crash, which happened just after takeoff on a clear day. The NTSB released the findings based on initial inspections of the badly damaged wreckage and flight records. The report said…