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• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is traveling to Asia and could make a controversial visit to Taiwan.
• Experts say that such a visit could raise the risk of an “accident” that leads to a military crisis in the region.
• “If she goes, the prospect of a crisis goes way up as China will need to respond,” a former US diplomat told Insider.

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Thunderstorms dumped heavy rain and kicked up high winds across central Nevada on Thursday, flooding the streets and casinos of Las Vegas. Lightning and small hail were also in the stormy mix that hit the popular summertraveldestination. More storm activity is expected Friday evening, from 6 to 8 p.m., with the chance for thunderstorms continuing into the weekend and next week.

“It’s all part of our monsoon season,” said Andy Gorelow, a forecaster with the National Weather Service office in Las Vegas. “This time of year is our best opportunity for thunderstorms. When we get a lot of this heat plus moisture during this time of year, it can produce thunderstorms.”

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Search and rescue teams backed by the National Guard searched Friday for people missing in record floods that wiped out entire communities in some of the poorest places in America.Kentucky‘s governor said at least 16 people have died, a toll he expected to grow.

Gov. Andy Beshear said at least six children were among the victims.

“That’s hard,” the governor told reporters during a briefing Friday afternoon. “That’s even harder for those families and those communities, so keep praying. There’s still a lot of people out there, still a lot of people unaccounted for. We’re going to do our best to find them all.”

Beshear said earlier Friday the death toll was “going to get a lot higher.” He said later officials may be updating the number of fatalities “for the next several weeks.”

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Police have found the 69-year-old man who went missing while he was training his hunting dogs.

Officers say Ellsworth Spear, of Newbury, is back home safe after he went missing on Thursday afternoon.

Spears was located on Friday after he emerged from the woods near Pigeon Pond in Groton. He told officials that he became disoriented in the woods on Thursday night before being able to find his way out.

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Spear had gone out with his dogs around 4:30 p.m. on Gore Road in Plainfield.

Officials say he told his wife he needed to get one of his dogs and was not heard from again.

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U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke to each other virtually on Thursday in a two-hour and 15 minutes call.

©Provided by BenzingaXi Jinping Issues Stern Warning To Biden Over Pelosi Taiwan Visit: ‘Those Who Play With Fire Will Perish By It’

What Happened: The Chinese leader expressed his concerns about a possible visit by the U.S. House of Representatives SpeakerNancy PelositoTaiwan, which China claims as its own,according to the Chinese foreign ministry.

“Those who play with fire will perish by it,” the Chinese foreign ministry quoted Xi as telling Biden in their fifth call as leaders.

“It is hoped that the U.S. will be clear-eyed about this.”

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Lawmakers and foreign policy experts weighed in on the greatest threats facing the United States, and those that may be overlooked, with a focus on China, Russia, Iran and climate change.

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Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, noted that despite near-term threats like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the long-term threat was China.

“Through technology, through their militarization of other areas, port activities, the Belt and Road Initiative … there are so many things China will engage in as a way to move around the globe unfettered, and that, I would say, is the largest threat facing the United States right now,” Ernst told Fox News…

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Anew U.S. strategy for countering Chinese aggression in the Pacific region has been outlined by a top official in President Joe Biden’s administration.

©Ezra Acayan/GETTYUS and Philippine marines took part in joint amphibious assault exercises off the waters near the South China Sea in March 2022.

Chinese warplanes haverepeatedly violated Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ)in recent months, with Beijing considering the island a breakaway province.

Tension is also sky high in the South China Sea where Beijing’s territorial claims overlap with those of no fewer than six of its neighbors, resulting inregular confrontations.

Ely Ratner, U.S. assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs, discussed the situation in a speech this week to the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington D.C.

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Austin native Sam Greiner spent the last few years guiding big game hunts in Idaho and Montana, until he was struck by a train on a solo hunt with his dog at the end of January.

The accident caused him to lose his right arm and right leg. But he’s already back in the saddle — Greiner recently harvested a mature axis buck in the Rocksprings area while on a hunt with his buddies, Stephen West and Noah Thompson.

While coming down the mountains with Goose, his black lab, in Montana, Greiner slipped while crossing some icy train tracks. He was knocked unconscious and hit by a train.

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