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Trump’s Great American State Fair temporarily shuts down due to the heat.

The “heat dome” covering the US from the Midwest to the East Coast interrupted the Trump Administration’s Freedom 250 event at the National Mall, which shut down for about four hours, citing the temperatures, and said it would reopen at 5PM ET.

The National Weather Service said more than 110 million people nationwide were under extreme heat risk.

Combination image with notice of the Great American Fair temporary shut down, and the NOAA extreme HeatRisk map of the East Coast.
Image: Freedom 250 / NWS
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