Southern California welcomed cooler temperatures and spotty rain Saturday as a tropical storm veered off the Pacific Coast and faded, helping put an end to a blistering heat wave that nearly overwhelmed the state's electrical grid.
The funeral of Britain's Queen Elizabeth who died this week after 70 years on the throne, will be held on Sept. 19, England's most senior peer who is in charge of state occasions said on Saturday.
Nowhere will the Queen be missed more than in a little village down the road from Balmoral, Scotland. To residents, the Queen was as much a member of their community as a monarch. Her death may also affect simmering sentiments on Scottish independence.
The date of Queen Elizabeth's state funeral was announced on Saturday, two days after the long-serving monarch died at age 96. Members of her family are in mourning, as are Britons.
Ukrainian officials on Saturday claimed major gains in a counteroffensive against Russian forces in the country's northeast, saying Ukrainian troops had cut off vital supplies to a front-line hotspot.
The U.S. Justice Department and Donald Trump's attorneys are vying for different candidates to serve as a special master to review records the FBI seized from the former president's Florida estate, and they disagree over whether classified records should be excluded from the review.
