By Laura Paddison, CNN

(CNN) — On one day in late April, something very unusual happened. Every single one of the planet’s top 50 hottest cities was in just one country: India.

This is according to data compiled by AQI, the air quality monitoring platform. There is “no modern precedent,” AQI said on its website. “This is not a normal April. And it demands a serious, data-grounded reckoning.”

AQI’s rankings are based on temperatures across 24 hours, including the daytime peak and the coolest point at night, as well as as other data including rainfall, wind and humidity.

On April 27, average peak temperatures across all 50 Indian cities on the list hit 112.5 degrees Fahrenheit.

Top of AQI’s list was the city of Banda in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which has a harsh, sub-tropical climate which often delivers brutal summers.

Even before what are typically hottest summer months, the heat has ratcheted up. On April 27, temperatures in Banda reached 115.16 degrees, according to AQI, the highest temperature recorded anywhere on the planet that day. The coolest Banda got, in the early hours of that morning, was 94.5 degrees.

The majority of India’s hottest cities were located in the country’s “interior heat belt,” according to AQI.

The extreme heat wave India experienced in the second half of last month “stands among the top if not the top harshest for April, which is usually not the hottest month of the year,” said Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist and weather historian who tracks extreme temperatures. Dozens, if not hundreds of April heat records were broken, he said.

One day’s data does not necessarily point to a trend, but India has long been grappling with increasingly intense heat, fueled by the climate crisis.

Summers are getting hotter and starting earlier. Last year, blistering heat arrived in April for parts of India, where temperatures spiked above 100 degrees, up to 5 degrees above the seasonal average.

Experts have warned heat in India is becoming so extreme, it may “cross the survivability limit” for healthy humans by 2050.

Heat is the deadliest type of extreme weather, and the vulnerable are most affected, including the very young and very old, as well as outdoor workers, who get little respite from the beating sun. Extreme heat threatens farming and food production and puts huge pressure on India’s economy and health care system.

This year’s heat wave came as the country also grapples with fallout from the Iran war, which has cut oil supplies, leaving it short on fuel at a time when cooling needs are soaring.

Some fear a potentially blistering summer lies ahead. The Indian Meteorological Department has warned parts of the country are on course for above average summer temperatures.

The predicted imminent arrival of El Niño, the weather pattern which originates in the Pacific Ocean, may also spell trouble for India’s upcoming monsoon season.

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By Holmes Lybrand, CNN

(CNN) — The man accused of running past Secret Service with loaded firearms and knives in an attempt to kill President Donald Trump during the White House Correspondent’s Dinner last month pleaded not guilty to the four charges he faces.

Prosecutors say Cole Tomas Allen on April 26 stormed through a security checkpoint at the hotel where the annual press dinner was being held while the president and top administration officials were on a different floor.

Allen appeared before a federal judge in Washington, DC, on Monday, hands and feet shackled together and stood by his attorney as they entered the not guilty plea on his behalf.

He has been indicted on charges including attempting to assassinate a president and assaulting an officer.

The judge presiding over the case, Trump-appointed Trevor McFadden, pressed Allen’s attorneys on an earlier motion they had made seeking to remove US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro and other administration officials from the case.

Allen’s attorneys argued that because Pirro and others were at the dinner and may have been targets according to their version of events, she should be recused from the case.

“We assume a lot about how victims feel,” defense attorney Eugene Ohm said during Monday’s hearing, adding that Pirro is “very close friends with Trump” and should be removed for that alone.

“I’d be very surprised if they were victims in any legal sense,” McFadden said, noting that they did not see the incident.

Ohm said he wanted more information on how Pirro’s office, which is prosecuting Allen, is structured in order to determine if the entire office should also be recused.

“It’s likely we will be asking for the entire office” to be removed from the case, Ohm said, adding that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche should also be recused because of his presence at the dinner.

McFadden, appearing skeptical, said removing the entire DC US Attorney office “would be quite a request” and told prosecutors to file their response and provide a definitive view on whether Pirro and Blanche were victims.

The next hearing in the case is set for June 29.

This story is developing and will be updated.

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Por Valeria León, CNN en Español

Desde el zaguán de su casa, Jairo Geovanni acomoda una pequeña parrilla. Ahí prepara hamburguesas y alitas. El negocio que antes operaba en la banqueta, ahora debe atenderlo desde el interior de su vivienda, como parte de las nuevas medidas que autoridades de la Ciudad de México implementan para “limpiar” los accesos hacia el Estadio Banorte.

“Ni bancos, ni mesas. Entonces la gente comiendo parada es un nuevo reto. No es lo mismo disfrutar que comer rápido e irse al estadio”, dice.

El negocio lo heredó de su abuela, quien durante años vendió comida dentro del Estadio Azteca.

“De ahí viene el amor por el negocio. Mi abuela ha sido comerciante desde hace 45 años vendiendo dentro del Estadio Azteca”, cuenta.

Su historia se desarrolla en la colonia Santa Úrsula Coapa, en la zona perimetral del estadio, donde la transformación urbana es visible desde hace meses. De acuerdo con el secretario de Obras de la capital, autoridades han entregado varias de las 40 obras de infraestructura previstas, con una inversión cercana a los US$ 10 millones.

En la Ciudad de México, los alrededores del Estadio Azteca, rebautizado como Estadio Banorte para el torneo, han cambiado rápidamente. Uno de los puntos clave es el puente peatonal de Huipulco, acceso principal para los asistentes, que forma parte de este paquete de obras de movilidad.

Las cifras reflejan la magnitud de la intervención: más de 300 escalones construidos, más de 3.000 metros cuadrados rehabilitados, además de nuevas banquetas, áreas verdes y espacios públicos.

Para las autoridades, el Mundial ha sido un catalizador.

“Recibir el Mundial para nosotros fue un acelerador de obras”, dijo la jefa de Gobierno, Clara Brugada.

Además, el CETRAM Huipulco, un importante nodo de transporte en el sur de la ciudad, fue completamente remodelado, incorporando torniquetes modernos y sistemas de accesibilidad para personas con discapacidad visual. Cada día, alrededor de 50.000 usuarios transitan por este punto.

También se estrenó la ciclovía más larga de la ciudad, con 34 kilómetros, que cruza cinco alcaldías.

A un mes del Mundial, las ciudades sede en México avanzan a contrarreloj en una transformación urbana que busca recibir a millones de aficionados. Pero, mientras autoridades destacan mejoras en movilidad e infraestructura, no todos celebran la transformación.

La jefa de Gobierno de la CDMX, Clara Brugada, anunció que el 2026 será el año del reordenamiento del comercio informal y planteó como meta retirar a 4.500 comerciantes de la vía pública.

“Esa es la gran tarea que le toca a la Secretaría de Gobierno, porque todos sabemos que no es nada sencillo”, dijo el 27 de enero. También resaltó que el Mundial es un “acelerador” de obras.

Con las nuevas regulaciones, la venta de comida en la vía pública ha sido restringida. Ahora, muchos comerciantes solo pueden operar desde sus domicilios.

“No sé qué vamos a hacer los comerciantes… no va a haber nada de puestos”, lamenta Patricia Carrillo, vecina de Santa Úrsula Coapa.

Como alternativa, autoridades han propuesto reubicar a parte de los vendedores en un nuevo mercado público en la zona. Sin embargo, este espacio aún se encuentra en construcción, lo que deja a muchos comerciantes en un limbo, sin claridad sobre cuándo podrán instalarse ni bajo qué condiciones operarán.

Para algunos vendedores, el objetivo es claro: mejorar la infraestructura y la imagen urbana de cara al evento. Pero también implica cambiar una dinámica económica y social profundamente arraigada.

“Todo se lo quiere llevar la FIFA con los precios excesivamente caros”, dice Jairo, aludiendo al contraste entre la oferta informal y los costos dentro de los recintos.

Para muchos trabajadores, la modernización implica una pérdida directa de ingresos y visibilidad, en una ciudad

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.- Weather conditions Monday will be very dependent on micro climates. The valleys and interior areas will be experiencing warm and toasty temperatures today, marking the warmest day of the next seven days.

For the coasts and beaches morning mist will be expected with dense marine layer for places like Lompoc and Santa Maria. Temperatures today will be in the 80s and 90s for the valleys and inland areas, while the beaches will be in the 60s and 70s. Winds will be rather calm through out the region, with slight breezy conditions in the afternoon. Models are showing wind speeds about 10-15 mph.

Coastal clouds will develop every night and morning as your First Alert Weather Center tracks an increase of onshore flow and a trough of low pressure expected to move through the Northern part of California by Wednesday.

By Thursday, the trough will move out of the region, and temps will slightly warm for the region once again.

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By Barry Neild, CNN

Lebanon, Kansas (CNN) — To find the very middle of America, you have to drive a long way — but it’s worth every undulating mile of blacktop.

It’s a journey that perfectly captures the dream of the American road trip. Wide-open highways stretch across vast acres of arable emptiness. Pit-stop towns crouch under towering skies. Lonely radio transmitters broadcast into the constantly shifting air.

What awaits you when you get there is surprising. Not some bombastic monument to the mighty nation that spreads out in all directions, but a modest set of landmarks and a sentiment so positive in a world of turmoil that it’ll stick with you all the way home.

The exact location of America’s center is open to debate. Metaphorically, “Middle America” covers the cultural experiences of more or less everyone living between New York and Los Angeles, or just the average American — whoever that may be.

Geographically, there are several contenders. Various formulations set down after Alaska and Hawaii were added to the mix in 1959 have the center hopping all over the Dakotas. But, as the US Department of the Interior dryly noted in a 1964 report: “There is no generally accepted definition of geographic center, and no completely satisfactory method for determining it.”

For decades, however, there was. Back near the start of the 20th century, when the United States was confined to 48 states stretching from sea to shining sea, enterprising experts at the US Coast and Geodetic Survey figured it out by the scientific method of cutting out a cardboard map of the country — and balancing it on the head of a pin to find its center of gravity.

That pivot point was in northern Kansas, just outside a town called Lebanon. And over the next half century, a place that raised the same corn, wheat and livestock as every other community for days in any direction, enjoyed a small and unexpected tourism boom.

A homecoming

There’s no easy way to get there, but the 260-mile drive west from Kansas City, the closest major population center, is a trip back in time. Past Topeka, I-70 passes a historical marker sign informing motorists that the next eight miles were the first section of interstate in the United States. Its 1956 opening kicked off President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s program to shrink America with highways.

If they were intended as a teaser for what was to come, those eight miles do the job. Kansas may have a reputation for being flat, but this section rises and falls in a straight line to the shimmering horizon. Above, depending on the day, the sky is stacked with impending weather, the meteorology changing faster than the 75 mph speed limit.

I-70 only takes you so far. The route dives deeper into the grid of country roads that cover rural Kansas, passing through the river town of Manhattan or “the Little Apple,” and then Clay Center — another mid-point, this one marking halfway between Los Angeles and New York.

Smaller communities fly by, with grain elevators, water towers, red-sided barns, shuttered Texaco gas stations and fields as far as the eye can see. For anyone who has long idealized the American heartlands, this feels like a homecoming.

There’s a classic US road trip attraction just short of the main event. In Cawker, about 25 minutes’ drive from the geographical center, a gazebo by the side of Route 24 shelters the unlikely spectacle that puts this tiny town on the m