Ozzy Osbourne: A Life in Pictures

Smoke from wildfires raging across Canada is expected to shroud parts of the Northeast on Wednesday, creating airborne pollution and hazy skies that had passed through sections of the Upper Midwest on Tuesday. See the forecast here.

The one-day competition was the culmination of three years of hard work by Oscar Dolan, the club’s founder, who is a wrestler himself and a former U.S. lightweight silver medalist.

The famed Pacific Coast Highway clings to the edge of the continent for hundreds of miles. But in California, landslides, erosion and fires have closed it time and again. A recent trip along the roadway revealed the frustrations of many residents.

China’s first police corgi, Fu Zai, has won top workplace reviews as an unusual breed of sniffer dog. But his lack of self-control cost him his annual bonus after he was caught swiping a sausage from a child during a street patrol.

Two people were killed by a raging wildfire in Western Canada that forced the evacuation of an entire town but trapped the victims before they could be reached by rescue crews, the police said.

“Across the world, we’ve seen democracy in retreat,” writes A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The Times. “This anti-press playbook is now being used here in this country — and it could not come at a more difficult time for the American press.”

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The humanitarian situation in Gaza: Most bakeries have shut, charity kitchens are closing and the United Nations’ World Food Program, which distributes aid and coordinates shipments, says it has run out of food stocks.

Breaking News: Andrew Cuomo was denied $622,000 in public mayoral campaign funds over suspicions of illegal coordination with a super PAC.

“Combating an entrenched and powerful autocratic government,” Filip Balunovic writes from Serbia, “protesters are showing what — against all the odds — is possible.”

A 61-year-old woman was killed on Tuesday when an alligator tipped over the canoe that she and her husband were paddling through Central Florida and attacked her after they fell in the shallow water, the authorities said.

“Israel’s blockade — and the deliberate delays, denials and excessive security procedures that surround it — is not just a failure of logistics. It is an engineered system of deprivation,” writes Sean Carroll, the president of American Near East Refugee Aid, from Amman, Jordan.

Here’s some of my black and white street photography.

Breaking News: George Foreman, the heavyweight boxing champion who parlayed his fame into a multimillion-dollar grill business, died at 76.

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An outbreak of wildfires fueled by dry conditions and hurricane-force winds was rapidly spreading across the Texas Panhandle and parts of Oklahoma on Friday, prompting evacuations, wreaking havoc on the roads and leaving thousands without power.

Brush fires broke out on Long Island on Saturday, forcing the closure of sections of a highway in Suffolk County amid high-risk fire conditions of low humidity and gusty winds.

Breaking News: A fire near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, doubled in size overnight as more than 170 fires burned in the Carolinas, prompting evacuations near the coast and in the mountains.