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California facing chance of blackouts amid brutal heat wave
LOS ANGELES — A record-setting heat wave made life miserable in much of the West on Tuesday, with California stretching into its second week of excessive heat that taxed the state’s power supply and threatened power shortages that could prompt blackouts while people were desperately trying to stay cool. The...
Liz Truss becomes Britain’s new prime minister
LONDON — Liz Truss became U.K. prime minister on Tuesday and immediately confronted the enormous task ahead of her amid increasing pressure to curb soaring prices, ease labor unrest and fix a health care system burdened by long waiting lists and staff shortages. At the top of her in-box is...
Swiss retailer rolls out ‘coffee balls’ to replace capsules
BERLIN — Swiss retailer Migros said Tuesday that it is launching a coffeemaking system designed to replace capsules that produce thousands of tons of waste worldwide each year. The cooperative said its spherical capsules — described as “coffee balls” — are fully compostable, unlike the plastic and aluminum containers popularized...
CVS to buy home health-care provider Signify for $8 billion
DALLAS — Drugstore operator CVS Health Corp. said Monday that it will buy home-health provider Signify Health for $8 billion. CVS said Signify has more than 10,000 employees including physicians and nurses, a presence in every state, and offers technology platforms. “This acquisition will enhance our connection to consumers in...
Von Miller settles in with Bills after leaving RamsVideo
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The memories are too fond, and the bonds formed too tight for Von Miller to say anything negative about the Los Angeles Rams even as the Buffalo Bills’ new pass rusher prepares to face his former team in the NFL’s season opener on Thursday night. “They...
Rams’ Cooper Kupp moves on from All-Pro year with Allen Robinson, without Robert WoodsVideo
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Cooper Kupp and Robert Woods were just about as close as two receivers can be during their five seasons together with the Los Angeles Rams. They worked out together, studied together and built a lifelong bond that will outlast Woods’ surprising offseason trade to Tennessee. As...
Frances Tiafoe ends Rafael Nadal’s 22-match Slam streak in 4th round of U.S. OpenVideo
NEW YORK — Frances Tiafoe ended Rafael Nadal’s 22-match winning streak at Grand Slam tournaments by beating the 22-time major champion 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the U.S. Open’s fourth round Monday. Tiafoe is a 24-year-old from Maryland who is seeded 22nd at Flushing Meadows and reached the second major...
‘Tale of two borders’: Mexicans not seen at busy crossingsVideo
YUMA, Ariz. — As hundreds of migrants line up along an Arizona border wall around 4 a.m., agents try to separate them into groups by nationality. “Anyone from Russia or Bangladesh? I need somebody else from Russia here,” an agent shouts and then says quietly, almost to himself, “These are...
NASCAR’s wild regular season rolls over into playoffsVideo
DARLINGTON, S.C. — Buckle up your five-point harness. Looks like NASCAR’s playoffs will be just as wild and unpredictable as its regular season. That came into sharp focus at Darlington Raceway, where Erik Jones became the first non-playoff racer to take the postseason opener in the Southern 500 on Sunday...
Browns add depth, sign former Steelers Haeg, James as opener approachesVideo
BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns added depth at two key positions in advance of the season opener, signing offensive tackle Joe Haeg and tight end Jesse James, both of whom previously played for the rival Pittsburgh Steelers. The Browns tweaked their roster Monday as they began preparing for Sunday’s...
Ukraine says nuclear plant offline after Russian shelling
KYIV, Ukraine — Europe’s largest nuclear plant was knocked off Ukraine’s electricity grid Monday after its last transmission line was disconnected as a result of a fire caused by Russian shelling, the facility’s operator and the U.N. atomic watchdog said. The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was informed Monday...
1 dead, 9 missing after floatplane crashes in Puget Sound
LANGLEY, Wash. — The U.S. Coast Guard was continuing to search Monday for nine people, including a child, who were missing after a floatplane crashed in the waters of Puget Sound northwest of Seattle. The body of a 10th person was recovered by a good Samaritan on Sunday after the...
Judge grants Trump bid for special master in document search
WASHINGTON — In a legal victory for former President Donald Trump, a federal judge on Monday granted his request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and temporarily halted the Justice Department’s use of the records for investigative purposes. The decision by...
Southwest China quake leaves at least 46 dead, triggers landslides
BEIJING — At least 46 people were reported killed and 16 missing in a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that shook China’s southwestern province of Sichuan on Monday, triggering landslides and shaking buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million residents are already under a covid-19 lockdown. The quake struck...
China accuses Washington of cyberspying on university
BEIJING — China on Monday accused Washington of breaking into computers at a university that U.S. officials say does military research, adding to complaints by both governments of rampant online spying against each other. Northwestern Polytechnical University reported computer break-ins in June, the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center announced....
Israeli army says soldier likely killed Al Jazeera reporter
JERUSALEM — The Israeli army said Monday there was a “high possibility” that a soldier killed a well-known Al Jazeera journalist in May. A senior military official said the military’s top legal officer will not be launching a criminal probe into the incident, meaning neither the soldier nor anyone in...
Kremlin claims sanctions are holding up natural gas supplies
KYIV, Ukraine — Western sanctions on Russia over its war in Ukraine are to blame for stoppages in Moscow’s supply of natural gas to Europe, a senior Kremlin official claimed Monday. In some of the bluntest comments yet on the standoff between Moscow and Western Europe over energy supplies, Kremlin...
OPEC+ cuts oil supplies to the world as prices fall
FRANKFURT, Germany — OPEC and allied oil-producing countries, including Russia, cut their supplies to the global economy by 100,000 barrels per day, underlining their unhappiness with crude prices that have sagged because of recession fears. The decision Monday by energy ministers means the cut for October rolls back the mostly...
No sign of survivors after ‘ghost plane’ crashes in Baltic
BERLIN — Authorities in Latvia said Monday that a search and rescue operation has so far found no sign of survivors from a small plane that crashed in the Baltic Sea. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the private plane, carrying four people, shortly after it took off from the...
Liz Truss set to become new U.K. Conservative prime minister
LONDON — Britain’s Conservative Party announced Monday that Liz Truss, currently the country’s foreign secretary, has been elected as the party’s new leader and thus the U.K.’s new prime minister. Truss, 47, beat former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak after a leadership contest in which only about 170,000 dues-paying members of...
Erik Jones holds off ex-JGR teammate Denny Hamlin to win at Darlington
DARLINGTON, S.C. — Erik Jones took the lead when Kyle Busch’s engine blew up, then pulled away from Denny Hamlin after a final restart 20 laps from the end to win the opening NASCAR Cup Series playoff race at Darlington Raceway on Sunday night. Hamlin, seeded sixth in the playoffs,...
Champions League is a group-stage sprint; marathon to final
GENEVA — In this unusual season for European soccer, the World Cup in Qatar has split the Champions League into a sprint and a marathon. The group stage kicks off Tuesday and squeezes six rounds of games into eight full weeks, with the last group matches on Nov. 2. The...
Citing imminent danger, Cloudflare drops hate site Kiwi Farms
SAN FRANCISCO — Citing an “immediate threat to human life,” Cloudflare has dropped the notorious stalking and harassment site Kiwi Farms from its internet security services following an online campaign started by transgender Twitch streamer Clara Sorrenti to pressure it to do so. “This is an extraordinary decision for us...
Chance of California power outages up as heat wave worsens
SACRAMENTO — California’s chance of power outages will grow in the coming days, as the state prepares to enter the most brutal stretch yet of an ongoing heat wave, officials said Sunday. Energy demand is expected to outpace supply starting Monday evening, and predictions for Tuesday show the state rivaling...
Dustin Johnson makes eagle putt to win LIV Boston event in playoffVideo
BOLTON, Mass. — Dustin Johnson gave LIV Golf its first big moment Sunday when he made a 35-foot eagle putt on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to win the LIV Golf Invitational-Boston for his first victory in 19 months. Johnson’s putt on the par-5 18th was going so...
