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In California, meanwhile, evacuation orders are in place for some parts of Shasta County in the northern part of that state because of major flooding along the Yuba River there.

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Avatar Fire and Ash is blazing a little less fiercely than expected at movie box offices this weekend.

NPR's Bob Mondello has our details.

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Actor James Ransom has died.

Ransom was best known for playing Ziggy Sobotka in the HBO series The Wire.

He also had roles in The Black Phone and Black Phone 2, and he also appeared in other television programs, including in the detective series Bosch.

The Los Angeles Medical Examiner's Office says he died of suicide.

He was 46 years old.

Power has returned to most of the 130,000 businesses and homes affected by an outage in northern San Francisco overnight.

The outage began Saturday afternoon.

Its cause is still under investigation, but a fire at an electrical substation contributed to the problem.

The outage disrupted transit in the area and caused many shops and restaurants to shut down.

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The Department of Justice is defending its partial release of the Epstein files.

It's arguing that it is following the Epstein Transparency Act, but the sponsors of that law disagree.

NPR's Luke Garrett reports.

The annual convention of Turning Point USA is wrapped up in Phoenix.