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Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has said Warsaw is considering a proposal from Kyiv to shoot down Russian missiles heading towards Polish territory while they are still in Ukrainian airspace.

The proposal was included in a joint defence agreement between the two countries signed during President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Warsaw earlier this week.

"At this stage, this is an idea. What our agreement said is we will explore this idea,” Mr Sikorski told the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.

He said some Russian missiles fired from the St Petersburg area towards Ukrainian targets near the western city of Lviv, not far from the Polish border, traversed Belarus and entered Polish airspace for about 40 seconds before turning towards their targets in Ukraine.

Even this early in the morning, temperatures near this 3,500-foot peak reach triple digits, with this part of the U.S.-Mexico border under an excessive heat warning.

Volunteers with Borderlands Relief Collective, a group of private citizens from the San Diego area, are preparing to drive up the mountain and deliver water and first aid to migrants crossing into the U.S.

Almost as soon as they start climbing up, the group encounters a man sitting on the side of the road. He breaks into tears when he sees the volunteers approaching with water.

He is dehydrated and wearing shoes too small for his feet. In broken English, he says his name is Taleb, and he’s from Mauritania. Before NPR can get a last name, he’s rushed aside to receive care.

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The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Thursday night, carrying 20 Starlink satellites. Several minutes into the flight, the upper stage engine malfunctioned. SpaceX on Friday blamed a liquid oxygen leak.

The company said flight controllers managed to make contact with half of the satellites and attempted to boost them to a higher orbit using onboard ion thrusters. But with the low end of their orbit only 84 miles (135 kilometers) above Earth — less than half what was intended — “our maximum available thrust is unlikely to be enough to successfully raise the satellites,” the company said via X.

SpaceX said the satellites will reenter the atmosphere and burn up. There was no mention of when they might come down. More than 6,000 orbiting Starlinks currently provide internet service to customers in some of the most remote corners of the world.

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• Hill noted in an email Thursday that 40% of the U.S. population lives in a coastal county.

Driving the news: The late June sale of the $200,000 Nantucket home comes months after a house valued at $2.2 million on the same street sold for $600,000. Another last October had to be demolished due to "extreme erosion" along the Massachusetts island's southwest shoreline, the Nantucket Current reports.

• Only "a couple of waterfront areas" are experiencing extreme erosion on Nantucket, and property values "are going up across the island," said Shelly Lockwood, a Nantucket real estate broker who helped develop a coastal resilience class for local agents on erosion and rising sea levels.

The big picture: Sea-level rise, a tangible effect of climate change, is accelerating across the U.S., per Christopher Hein, a coastal geologist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary.

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• What's happening in Nantucket, a popular place to have summer houses among celebrities and billionaires, can be seen across the U.S.
• In the Outer Banks of North Carolina in May, officials had to close a stretch of beach after a sixth house collapsed into the sea due to erosion.
• Other coastal erosion hot spots include parts of California, like Dana Point, south of Los Angeles, and Plum Island, northern Mass.
• A new economic model from Duke University found that tax incentives for high-income property owners, coupled with federal subsidies for storm and flood damage mitigation, have driven coastal property prices higher despite rising climate risks, per a March study.

Former President Donald Trump was rushed off stage with blood dripping on his face after gunshots rang out at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. One spectator at the rally is dead, and two are in serious condition.

The incident is being investigated as an assassination attempt, a source told Reuters. Trump, in an email sent to reporters late Saturday night after the shooting, declared "I will never surrender."

Secret Service Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement that the suspected shooter, who officials confirmed is dead, fired multiple shots toward the stage at approximately 6:15 p.m. He said the shooter was in an elevated position outside the rally.

Richard Simmons, the legendary fitness instructor that reached massive celebrity status, has died at the age of 76, KTLA has confirmed.

The Los Angeles Fire Department told KTLA that it received reports of a “cardiac arrest suspected death” at 1350 Belfast Drive in the Hollywood Hills at 9:55 a.m.

Officials called the death “natural.”

He celebrated his 76th birthday on Friday. On X, formerly Twitter, he thanked fans for the well wishes.

“Thank you…I never got so many messages about my birthday in my life! I am sitting here writing emails. Have a most beautiful rest of your Friday,” Simmons wrote.

In March, Simmons announced he was diagnosed with skin cancer after finding a bump under his right eye. As of Saturday, there was no word as to whether that contributed to his reported death.

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Israeli air strikes on the al-Mawasi camp in southern Gaza have killed at least 90 people and wounded 300 others, according to Palestinian health officials.

The attack on Saturday on the Israeli-designated “safe zone”, located west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, involved fighter jets and drones, according to witnesses.

Israeli officials have said the attack targeted two senior members of Hamas’s military wing, claiming they were hiding among civilians.

Hamas has dismissed this claim as “false”, saying it is a way of covering up the “horrific massacre” at a location where displaced Palestinians were urged to seek shelter after receiving orders to evacuate their homes elsewhere in the Strip.

Here’s everything you need to know about the attack and its aftermath: