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Eleven people died after a chemical tank rupture at a Longview paper mill, prompting recovery operations and federal review.

Tom Barrack now holds new envoy titles for Syria and Iraq, adding to his US ambassador role in Turkey under the Trump administration.

California state and local teams respond in Orange County as hazardous materials crews work at the Garden Grove chemical tank site.

Southern California crews battled the Sandy Fire after wind-driven flames threatened homes and prompted evacuations.

Washington says Lebanon and Israel agreed to extend the ceasefire by 45 days and continue political and security talks in coming weeks.

BEIJING, CHINA / MENA Newswire / — U.S. President Donald Trump began his visit to China with formal talks with President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, opening the first trip to the country by a sitting U.S. president since 2017 and putting trade, Taiwan and wider security issues at the center of the summit. Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday, and Xi received him at the Great Hall of the People before the two leaders moved into meetings that Chinese officials said would cover bilateral ties and broader global issues. The opening day combined ceremony and negotiations. Xi held…

UN pressure grew for restored Strait of Hormuz passage after Antonio Guterres warned that shipping limits threaten global trade and commerce.

The United Nations says shrinking aid, rising debt costs and a widening finance gap are pushing global development goals further off track.

Water Forward sets a global framework to improve water security, expand services and support resilience for more than 1 billion people.

HOUSTON: NASA’s Artemis II crew aboard the Orion spacecraft set a new record for the farthest distance traveled by humans from Earth on Monday, surpassing the mark set by Apollo 13 in 1970 during a lunar flyby that carried the astronauts deeper into space than any crew before them. NASA said the four-person crew passed the Apollo 13 distance of 248,655 miles from Earth at 1:56 p.m. EDT and later reached a maximum distance of about 252,756 miles as Orion looped behind the Moon. The milestone came on the sixth day of Artemis II, the first crewed flight of NASA’s Artemis program and…