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This heat wave isn't just stifling -- it's deadly. Extreme temperatures continued Thursday across a large swath of the country, killing more than a dozen people, at least two police dogs and likely contributing to the death of Franklin the rhinoceros at a Mississippi zoo. Arkansas fire departments were volunteering to hose down overheated cattle, and people as far north as Maine were trying to stay cool.

The East Coast broiled under an unforgiving sun Tuesday as record-toppling temperatures soared to 100 or higher in several cities, utility companies ...

Metropolitan areas along eastern seaboard states are bracing for scorching, triple digit temperatures as a hot air mass that settled into the region Sunday promises hotter and more humid weather Tuesday.

Houston, Texas, had a record high temperature Wednesday as a heat wave continues to grip the nation's midsection, the National Weather Service said Thursday.

Summer heat waves are expected in the South. But in Michigan?