International News
Bahamas officials say thousands missing in Dorian's wake
Al Jazeera
Bahamian officials said on Wednesday that 2,500 people have been registered as missing in the wake of the devastating Hurricane Dorian, a count they said may include people who have fled to shelters around the islands.
Koizumi says Japan should scrap nuclear plants after Fukushima
Al Jazeera
Japan's newly-appointed environment minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, wants the country to close down nuclear reactors to avoid a repeat of 2011's Fukushima catastrophe.
US should avoid 'warmongers', says Iran on John Bolton's firing
Al Jazeera
The United States should distance itself from "warmongers" after hard-line national security adviser John Bolton was dismissed, Iran's president said on Wednesday.
Bolton was one of the strongest advocates of the ongoing US "maximum pressure" policy towards the Islamic Republic.
Deadly job: No rush to join Mexico's new police force
BBC World News
The rise in police officers killed and the low regard in which law enforcement is held in Mexico are two of the factors making it extremely hard for the government to fulfil its promise to recruit 50,000 people to fill the ranks of the newly created National Guard by 2022.
US News
California church leaders 'used homeless as forced labour'
BBC World News
The leaders of a California based-church have been accused of imprisoning homeless people, forcing them to beg all day and taking the money.
Dozens of victims had their papers taken, their welfare benefits stolen and were punished if they spoke of "things of the world", officials say.
Imperial Valley Ministries (IVM) operates about 30 affiliate church groups in the US and Mexico.
US not planning to offer protected status to Bahamians after Dorian
The Guardian
The United States does not plan to invoke temporary protected immigration status for Bahamians after the archipelago was battered by a Category 5 hurricane.
The TPS program is designed to prevent foreign nationals from being deported back to countries facing civil unrest or the aftermath of a devastating natural disaster.
The Supreme Court just let Trump close the Mexican border to nearly all migrants seeking asylum
Vox News
The Supreme Court issued an unsigned order on Wednesday evening that effectively closes the United States’ southern border to nearly all Central American asylum seekers.
The decision stays a lower court decision blocking a Trump administration policy that seeks to halt nearly all asylum applications from these migrants and allow the US government to require them to seek asylum in countries they travel through. The government will now be allowed to enforce the policy while legal challenges move ahead.
Message in bottle saves family stranded on waterfall
BBC World News
Mr Whitson put the note in a green water bottle and carved "help" into the side. Then he threw the bottle into the water. "With one lucky toss, it went right over the waterfall," he told CNN.
Science/ Environment News
Astronomers Find Water on an Exoplanet Twice the Size of Earth
Scientific American
“This is the only planet right now that we know outside the solar system that has the correct temperature to support water, that has an atmosphere and that has water in it,” says Angelos Tsiaras, an astronomer at University College London and lead author of one of the studies, which was published today in Nature Astronomy.