Heavy storms in the Carolinas brought between 1 to 4 inches of rain and prompted several flash flood warnings on Friday.

Smoke from wildfires blazing across Canada is once again wafting over huge portions of the U.S. Midwest and worsening air quality there. On August 1 conditions are particularly bad in Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.

Witnesses and health workers say Israeli forces have opened fire near two aid distribution sites run by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as crowds of hungry Palestinians sought food.

From May 27 to July 31, 859 people were killed near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution sites, according to a United Nations report published Thursday.

Hospitals in Gaza reported the killing of more than a dozen people, eight of them food-seekers, by Israeli fire on Saturday as Palestinians endured severe risks in their search for food amid airdrops and restrictions on overland aid delivery.