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1 Body of Rivera found: Nearly a week after“Glee”star Naya Rivera went missing at Lake Piru in Southern California and was presumed to have drowned, officials confirmed that they have recovered the body of the 33-yearold actress. Rivera was discovered in the lake at about 9:10 a.m. pacific time by park rangers, Ventura County Sheriff Bill Ayub said.

2 Epstein victim to speak: One or more victims of Jeffrey Epstein plan to tell a judge today that his ex-girlfriend should be denied bail on charges that she recruited teenage girls for him to sexually abuse in the 1990s, prosecutors said Monday. Prosecutors made the revelation in court papers as they argued there is no reason to free Ghislaine Maxwell on bail.

Heat shifts north: The oppressive 3 heat blanketing the southern U.S. from California to Florida should start to wind down today. Unfortunately for other parts of the country, it’ll be shifting north and east over the next two weeks. New York will likely see temperatures above 90 degrees starting this weekend and continuing into next week, according to Bradley Harvey, a meteorologist with Maxar in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Taliban stage major attack: The 4 Taliban waged a sustained assault against an Afghan intelligence complex in the city of Aybak on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding more than 60 others, part of a bloody wave of violence across the country’s north.

Sudan scraps apostasy laws: 5 Sudan will allow non-Muslims to consume alcohol, scrap its apostasy law and abolish the use of public flogging as a punishment as its transitional government eases decades of strict Islamist policies. The moves, announced late Saturday by the justice minister Nasredeen Abdulbari, are part of a slew of changes introduced under the transitional government as it seeks to break with the rule of Omar al-Bashir.