In Yosemite, vacation's over

It's tourist season, but wildfires get the right of way

Yosemite National Park Superintendent Mike Reynolds said he can count on one hand how many times the park has closed, and Tuesday was one of those times. Wildfires came early at the height of summer tourist season. Visitors, residents and some park employees were asked to leave as heavy smoke settled into Yosemite from the Ferguson Fire, which began July 13. Part of California 41, the road that goes north from Fresno into the heart of the park, was set to close. Crews from across the USA are helping local firefighters battle the blaze, which has scorched an area larger than the city of San Francisco. Mandatory and advisory evacuations are in place in several areas, but no homes have been damaged or destroyed.

Developing news, so we're moving this to the top

• Demi Lovato was hospitalized after a possible drug overdose. The singer is now stable, according to reports. Celebrity friends are tweeting their support.
• The man behind last year's deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, arrived 45 minutes late to a hearing and withdrew his request for a permit to rally there on the Aug. 11 anniversary. It was an unexpected and bizarre turn of events that led to light cheering in the courtroom, but many believe it's not over.

Ivanka Trump chooses public policy over purses and shoes

First daughter Ivanka Trump is shutting down her clothing line company. Trump, who has served as an assistant to her father, said Tuesday it was the fair thing to do for her team and partners since she doesn't know when or if she will return to the business as she focuses on her work in D.C. Her company prompted concerns about possible conflict of interest since she handed off day-to day control but did not divest from the firm. Who can forget the time President Donald Trump publicly slammed Nordstrom for dropping his daughter's line and White House staffer Kellyanne Conway told viewers to "go buy Ivanka's stuff" during a live TV interview.

Trump is coming to town and he's handing out money (to farmers)

Are tariffs good or bad? President Donald Trump called tariffs "the greatest" and lauded them Tuesday as both a punishment and a negotiating tactic to better trade deals with China and the European Union. On the other hand, Trump is embarking on a multi-state trip through parts of the country hit heavily by these trade disputes as he prepares to direct billions of dollars in aid to farmers whose crops have been hurt by retaliatory tariffs. Will anyone win in an extended trade war? Not consumers, economists say.

Is anybody listening?

The answers to Amelia Earhart's disappearance might be found inside a set of more than 100 radio signals transmitted the week after the famed aviator went missing. "We are in need of medical care and must have help," Earhart says, the last in a weeklong string of pleas seeking assistance. "We can't hold on much longer." And then, silence. The transmission came after what is believed to be the sixth day she was marooned on an island in the Pacific Ocean, according to new research that supports the theory Earhart did not crash into the ocean. The research was pieced together from radio signals recorded by area government officials and private citizens.

Those security clearances are looking less secure

Former U.S. intelligence officials be weary, President Donald Trump may yank your security clearance for speaking out against him. On the short list for removal? Former CIA directors John Brennan and Michael Hayden, as well as former FBI directors James Comey and Andrew McCabe. Can Trump do that? Yep, he sure can.

It depends on how you define 'judgment free zone'

Uncomfortable. Disgusted. Sick. Unsafe. Those were some of the comments that members of a Planet Fitness gym — whose motto is to be judgment-free — had after seeing a man practicing yoga in the nude. Eric Stagno, 34, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was charged with indecent exposure, lewdness and disorderly conduct. It appears he has a much different definition of the gym's motto.

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