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Wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota pushes farther into the US and engulfs DC in haze 48%
By Philip Marcelo25%
7/17/2026, 8:29:46 PM
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BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Self-Serving Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Anecdotal, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 15.7% saturation with 77 hits. Analysis detected 518 faulty-reasoning hits from 491 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 49% and a BS Rank of 48% (11,508 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 52.60% of the article peer group.
NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of people in the Great Lakes, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states muddled through another day of unhealthy air from uncontrolled wildfires on Friday.
The thick smoke enveloped the nation’s capital in a gloomy, eerie haze and prompted Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians to postpone their game against Pittsburgh Pirates in Ohio.
Warnings of dangerous conditions were expected to remain in effect through Saturday across a wide swath of the U.S., though there’s potential for temporary improvement with storms forecast in some affected areas during the weekend.
For Maria Travela, Friday was her first day outside since after smoke from the wildfires blanketed the Chicago area early Thursday.
“It’s pretty crazy to wake up at sunrise and not see the sun when it’s not even raining,” he said by phone after posting a video of the surreal scene on X.
“And it smells like somebody’s having the world’s largest cookout.”
“The source of the smoke is going to continue on for certainly a week, probably,” Oravec said.
“It’s just going to depend upon which way the wind’s blowing as to where the smoke is going to affect the most.”
Wildfires are burning in the Ontario area of Canada as well as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota, which U.S. officials have closed as they fight to put out the blazes.
The increase of fire in vast Canadian forests has largely been blamed on climate change.
In response to the smoke, U.S.
President Donald Trump made a social media post Friday that blamed Canada for its forest management and threatened additional tariffs on Canada.
The Canadian government didn’t initially respond to questions about Trump’s comments.
Asked about a Michigan lawmaker’s criticism about the smoke, Ford noted Canada has helped the U.S. fight fires in the past.
“If there’s some politicians out there chirping away, maybe what you should do rather than complain is send support, send help, because we have done the exact same thing for our American friends and that’s what you’re supposed to do,” Ford said.
Saturday brings a high chance of thunderstorms across much of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, which will help dampen the bad air.
Organizers of the All-American Soap Box Derby in Ohio hope air quality improves enough to allow for Saturday’s championship races.
The major annual competition in Akron scrubbed Friday’s events over air quality concerns.
“I think they made the right choice,” said Dayna Lincoln, a pediatric nurse practitioner from Hodgdon, Maine, whose family drove 15 hours for their 9-year-old daughter’s race on Saturday.
“I’m glad they’re not forcing the kids out into it,” she said.
“There are kids with asthma and adults with respiratory conditions who could really suffer.”
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Associated Press reporters Jim Morris in Vancouver, British Columbia, John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, and Cybele Mayes-Osterman in Chicago contributed to this story.
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