Hurricane Francine made landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday after strengthening to a Category 2 storm, bringing powerful winds, storm surge and potential flooding to the northern U.S. Gulf Coast.
U.S. President Joe Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump made a rare joint appearance on Wednesday at the New York City site that marks the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Voters in seven swing states will determine the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in November. Andrew Chang breaks down each of the states in play for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and their pathways to 270 electoral college votes.
Three major wildfires are burning in Southern California and endangering tens of thousands of homes and other structures. A man has been arrested and charged with arson in one of them.
French authorities foiled three plots to attack the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris and other cities that hosted the summer events, the national counterterrorism prosecutor said Wednesday.
A case unfolding in France isn't significant only because of the nature of the crimes, which Gisèle Pélicot's husband filmed and has confessed to, but because we know her name at all.
