The new toll comes at a time when relief operations are expanding — the U.S.-based aid agency Samaritan's Purse opened a field hospital Saturday — but authorities are struggling with security at distribution points.
At least 22 people were killed, and rescue crews searched desperately Sunday amid shattered homes and tangled debris for dozens of people still missing after record-breaking rain sent floodwaters surging through Middle Tennessee.
The Ed Johnson Project is part of a quiet but determined U.S.-wide effort to remind everyone of the horror of the estimated 4,400 lynchings in this country in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, writes Paul Hunter.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, 79, and his wife Jacqueline, 77, have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a statement Saturday.
A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul's international airport killed seven Afghan civilians in the crowds, the British military says.
The U.S. East Coast braces to take a direct hit from Hurricane Henri as it's set to make landfall in Long Island, N.Y., or New England on Sunday evening. Canada's Maritimes are expected to be spared from the worst of Henri.
