UPDATE! Michigan: An A-10 attack aircraft practiced landing and taking off from a US highway on Thursday in an apparent first for modern military aircraft. Authorities closed off Michigan state highway 32 on Thursday for a training exercise in which the Michigan National Guard's 127th Wing, the Air Force's 355th Wing, and Air Force Special Operations Command practiced operating four A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft and two C-146A Wolfhound special-operations transport planes from the roadway. The training was part of the larger Exercise Northern Strike at the National All-Domain Warfighting Center. "This is believed to be the first time in history that modern Air Force aircraft have intentionally landed on a civilian roadway on US soil," Air Force Col. James Rossi, commander of the NADWC's Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, said in a recent statement. The Michigan State Police tweeted Thursday that "no speeding citations were issued during the exercise." (Read more.)

BREAKING! Sirya: The city of al-Bab in northern Aleppo is getting smacked with heavy artillery fire.

23 civilians, including women and children, were injured.

Dixie Fire and so much damage at Canyon Dam at Lake Almanor. Just got this video of the Dixie Fire bearing down on Crescent Mills, CA from Ryan Kelly. “It’s so hot,” he says at one point. Ryan says he is going to evacuate after he gets a neighbor out of his house. Notice how in the morning, the smoke plumes from the Dixie Fire continue to drift to the northeast, as they generally have for weeks now.