 The Republican Party's Platform Committee says the GOP's first new platform since 2016 will be the first truly refined by the former president. The ghastly heat wave gripping much of the country keeps on keeping on. Las Vegas set a new record high temperature on Sunday, 120 degrees. In Death Valley, it got to 128, a new high. Motorcyclists, part of a group of six, succumbed to the heat and died. On Indonesia's Sulawesi, authorities say at least 11 people were killed in a landslide.