Heavy smoke from wildfires is darkening skies from the US Midwest to the East Coast, in photos

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Heavy, pungent wildfire smoke darkened skies in the U.S. on Thursday from the Great Lakes to parts of the East Coast, reducing visibility and prompting warnings that breathing the air outside could be dangerous.

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