TOKYO (AP) — Tropical Storm Shanshan brought torrential rain Sunday to Japan ’s Shizuoka area, 180 kilometers (110 miles) southwest of Tokyo, as weather officials warned the storm would linger for several more days. Shanshan , packing winds of 65 kph (40 mph), made landfall Thursday , leaving landslides, flooded rivers, torn branches and scattered
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers this week passed some of the nation’s most ambitious legislation aimed at atoning for a legacy of racist policies that drove disparities for Black people, from housing to education to health. None of the bills would provide widespread direct payments to African Americans. The state Legislature instead approved proposals
SAO PAULO (AP) — The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians on Saturday had difficulty and doubts over navigating other social media in its absence. The shutdown of Elon Musk’s platform started early Saturday, making it largely inaccessible on both
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The pilot of a plane that crashed in northeast Wyoming in July, killing seven people, declared an emergency and loss of the autopilot shortly before the incident that claimed the lives of three members of the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame quartet The Nelons. The preliminary report released this week
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president said Saturday his country needs some $100 billion in foreign investment to achieve an annual target of 8% economic growth up from the current rate of 4%. The remarks by Masoud Pezeshkian , who was elected in July, came in his first live televised interview by state TV. Pezeshkian
WASHINGTON (AP) — In her welcoming remarks at Moms for Liberty’s annual gathering in the nation’s capital on Friday, the group’s co-founder, Tiffany Justice, urged members to “fight like a mother” against the Democratic presidential ticket. Later that evening, after she had interviewed Republican nominee Donald Trump onstage, she made a point to say she
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Insurgents on Saturday freed four people, including an army officer who was abducted three days ago from a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, the military said. Lt. Col. Khalid Ameer was seized on Wednesday while he was sitting in a mosque to receive mourners after attending his father’s
NEW YORK (AP) — Fatman Scoop, who topped charts in Europe with “Be Faithful” two decades ago and later contributed to hits by other artists, died after collapsing on stage at a show Friday in Connecticut, according to officials and his family. He was 53. The cause of his death wasn’t immediately clear. He was
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Police said Saturday that a man will face misdemeanor charges after he stormed into the press area at Donald Trump’s rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, before being surrounded by authorities and eventually subdued with a Taser as the former president spoke at the campaign stop. The incident Friday came moments after Trump
BOVINA, Miss. (AP) — Seven people were killed and dozens were injured in Mississippi after a commercial bus overturned on Interstate 20 on Saturday morning, according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol. Six passengers were pronounced dead at the scene and another died at a hospital, according to a news release. The bus was traveling west
