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some hard-hit areas as the weekend approaches.
• Most states in the U.S. had at least one region where the temperature hit 90 degrees Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service, though the worst heat was in the Midwest to Northeast. Humid air just made it all feel worse, with heat

indexes in some places over 100.
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• ZAATARI, Jordan (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday visited a camp for Syrian refugees displaced by the fighting in their country, hearing first-hand accounts from Syrians who have fled what the U.N. says is the worst humanitarian crisis in decades.
• In Jordan on his sixth trip to the Middle East as secretary of state, Kerry flew Thursday to the Zaatari camp north of Amman, just south of the Syrian border. He was accompanied by Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh.
• Kerry, who spent his time at the camp's administrative base and did not tour the living quarters for security reasons, met with six refugees who appealed for the U.S. and others to do more militarily to support the opposition. During the 40-minute meeting, they expressed their anger at what they called inaction and indifference on the part of the international community.
• "We are begging you for a no-fly zone," said Jamalat Abu al-Hariri, who fled her home in Daara, the Syrian city closest to Zaatari. All the refugees, including three more women and a man from Daraa and one woman from Homs, urged Kerry to back a no-fly zone and set up safe havens on Syrian soil.
• Kerry responded: "A lot of different options are under consideration. I wish it was very simple. As you know, we've been fighting two wars for 12 years. We are trying to help in various ways, including helping Syrian opposition fighters have weapons. We are doing new things. There is consideration of buffer zones and other things but it is not as simple as it sounds."
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• CAIRO (AP) -- The head of Egypt's military, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, sat with

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