Mudslide death toll in China rises to 3 after heavy rain from Typhoon Saudel
The death toll from a mudslide in eastern China rose to three on Sunday, after days of torrential rain brought by Typhoon Saudel. Nine others were still missing.
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Africa's mother tongues are finding new life as youth connect with roots and relatives
A television game show in Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a U.S.-born millennial in the audience and a student of her parents' mother tongue, the high-stakes setting is a perfect classroom.
U.S. tourism groups want to win Canadian visitors back. A testy trade war isn't helping
Appeals from American tourism organizations seemed to be everywhere Josh Loewen looked over the last year. Billboards and banners proclaimed a state or city's love for Canada. Online and social media ads offered special deals for travelers from north of the border.
Months after Venezuela earthquakes, a family refuses to give up search for their missing relative
Antonella Molina, her nephew Pedro Molina and a group of friends set out at 8 a.m. on a recent Saturday, hands full of flyers, walking carefully through the rubble that remains throughout La Guaira after two catastrophic back-to-back earthquakes 10 weeks ago.
A Kentucky man with a meat allergy was craving a burger. So he got into ostrich farming
When a friend approached Brent Williams four years ago with a business proposition to start an ostrich farm, he was more than intrigued - he had a personal motivation as someone who developed a life-threatening allergy to red meat, triggered by tick bites.
California made Gavin Newsom famous. Will it drag down his 2028 presidential ambitions?
Gavin Newsom's secret is no secret here in South Carolina.
2 beluga whales rescued from shuttered Canadian park have died since relocation to Chicago aquarium
Two female beluga whales transferred from the defunct Marineland of Canada theme park to Chicago's Shedd Aquarium have died shortly after their relocation.
Carbon monoxide leak at Gaithersburg, Maryland, apartment complex sends at least 11 to the hospital
Carbon monoxide leaked at an apartment complex Saturday in Gaithersburg, Maryland, with 51 people from three buildings needing evaluation and at least 11 requiring hospitalization, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service.
Trump's PAC Unleashes First Wave of General Election Spending with Ad Buy in Texas
President Trump's cash-rich political operation disclosed its first wave of general election spending Saturday with a huge ad buy in Texas' high-stakes Senate race.
Kissing cousins: Maine Dem Senate nominee rebukes GOP's Collins for 'attacking my personal life'
Maine's Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson on Saturday fired back at Republican Sen. Susan Collins for mentioning that the mother of his children is his second cousin, grumbling that it's an attack on his family.
Grosvenor-Strathmore, Medical Center, Bethesda Metrorail stations to reopen on Labor Day
The Grosvenor-Strathmore, Medical Center and Bethesda Metrorail stations along the Red Line will reopen Monday following months of work that ended on time and within the budget.
Ambassador Mike Huckabee calls violent Israeli settlers 'terrorists' after weeks of West Bank unrest
The United States ambassador to Israel condemned Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank again on Saturday, calling the behavior an "act of terror" as he visited with Palestinian American residents shaken by months of attacks.
Putin and Zelenskyy agree to pause strikes on Kyiv and Moscow during talks with U.S. envoys
The leaders of Russia and Ukraine on Saturday agreed to pause strikes on each other's capitals while U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner hold talks to try to revive a stalled push to end Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Australia to pull researchers from remote island before elephant seals die en masse from bird flu
Australian officials, citing "psychosocial risks," said they will evacuate the Macquarie Island research station this fall so people there don't witness bird flu ravaging the elephant seal population come springtime.
Florida bans illegal immigrants from state universities
Florida is banning illegal immigrants from enrolling at selective state universities.
Rescuers in Nepal pull 2 people alive from the debris 10 days after devastating floods
Rescuers in Nepal pulled out a Chinese man and a woman in separate operations Saturday, 10 days after devastating floods hit the country, as teams continued searching for thousands of missing people.
U.S. military hits 3 Iranian oil tankers after saying Navy warships were targeted with missiles
The U.S. military on Saturday said it struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with missiles, warning that it would "if necessary, destroy Iran's limited and exposed oil fleet."
Greek air force jet crashes at annual aerial show, starts fire
A Greek air force jet crashed at an aerial show north of Athens, starting a fire that sent large plumes of black smoke into the air in front of several thousand spectators on Saturday.
Appeals court maintains blockade on DHS using database to check state voter rolls
A federal appeals court has ruled to keep in place a lower court blockade on the Department of Homeland Security using its SAVE database to check voter rolls, undercutting the Trump administration's efforts to help states boot noncitizens from their registration lists.
Iran accuses the U.S. of targeting a tanker near Kharg Island
Iran has accused the U.S. of attacking an Iranian tanker near Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf. The U.S. did not immediately comment, and there was no sign of retaliation. The past week saw the first exchange of fire after a month of relative calm.
