She said the nonbinary singer was “very courageous.”

Winds are bringing a smoky haze from Canada’s wildfires into the US. AP correspondent Jennifer King reports.Murray Kinsey, owner of a houseboat company just outside of Babbitt, Minnesota, said Friday afternoon the sky was “hazy,” but anglers still were fishing on nearby Birch Lake.

“It’s getting a little hard to breathe,” Kinsey said. “But it’s not terrible. We’ve had it before, but it’s been way worse.”The Air Quality Index — AQI — measures how clean or polluted the air we breathe is on a daily basis. The index focuses on the health effects that might be experienced within a few hours or days after breathing polluted air.AQI is calculated based on ground-level ozone, particle pollution or particulate matter, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide. Ground-level ozone and airborne particles are the two pollutants that pose the greatest threat to human health in this country.

The index ranges from green, where the air quality is satisfactory and air pollution poses little or no risk, to maroon, which is considered hazardous. That level comes with health warnings of emergency conditions where everyone is more likely to be affected,On Friday morning, the AQI showed orange around the Arrowhead, Minnesota, area, which Ayd said is a concern for people with chronic conditions, the elderly and young children. “They really should limit their time outdoors,” he added.

The path of the orange zone moved further south and southeast throughout Friday afternoon.

The level below orange is yellow and considered moderate, where the air quality is acceptable. That is what maps showed Friday for some other parts of the Midwest.“I don’t believe that President Xi (Jinping) with the strength of his leadership respects a weak and incompetent Australian prime minister,” Dutton said.

Dutton has accused Albanese of “self-censorship” in dealing with China. He described Albanese’s reaction to three Chinese warships virtually circumnavigating Australia in February in a show of China’s military reach as the “weakest, most limp-wristed response you could see from a leader.”Australia complained the Chinese gave insufficient notice of

off the Australian coast that forced commercial airline flights between Sydney and New Zealand to divert.Beijing responded that Australia had made