In the early 2000s, a number of journalists began to make their way to the town of Mateke in Georgia. It was a farming town, dirt poor and there were no real streets to speak of. But they were going to this place to meet a particular woman. She knew, as far as she was concerned, that she was the real mother of Vladimir Putin. Hainsey: Should we be worried about the coming summer? Right now, there are around 240 wildfires that are burning out of control in Canada. And there's also no sign of the heat dome ending.
He is expected to be charged for failing to return classified documents and obstructing justice. The former president denies wrongdoing, and any possible convictions are still a long way away, but how does this affect his election campaign? Wildfires raging across Canada are choking New Yorkers. We take a closer look at the air quality data. And Putin’s alleged birth mother dies in Georgia.
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