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PORTLAND, Ore. AP 鈥?Roughly 130 million people were under threat Saturday and into next week from a long-running heat wave that already has broken records with dangerously high temperatures 鈥?and is expected to shatter more from East Coast to West Coast, forecasters said.Oppressive heat and humidity could tea
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